The so-called “season of peace” is a gang violence cease fire organized by street workers and ministers in Boston every year.  The official start of the cease fire is Thanksgiving, and it’s supposed to be in effect until the end of the holidays.  Back in November, we hosted a forum on gang violence at historic [...]

This holiday week we’re revisiting some of our favorite city-centric shows of 2009: Iconography of Boston, Bikeable Boston, and Literary Boston.
The latter program featured a terrific segment with the Boston Comics Roundtable, whose latest anthology, Inbound #4, chronicles the history of Boston in comic books. Check out the dramatization we did of Cathy Leamy’s book [...]

At this time of year, thoughts turn to helping those less fortunate, and here in New England, we’re particularly generous.  Volunteering goes up in November and December when folks look to help with soup kitchens and food pantries.  While non-profit organizations do everything they can to make use of the extra help, their needs are [...]

Midwives say they can help women have better, more natural births, and in many cases, they encourage women to have their babies at home.  The medical establishment is solidly against home births, but have begun to support nurse midwives attending births in hospitals.  While some say this is a step in the right direction, others [...]

The four Dems for U.S. Senate will be our guests Fri@1. They’ll be on seperately, in sequence. All four have been (and will be) on WBUR a numbers of times, but this appearance will be special in that we’ll focus on your questions and comments for the candidates.
Call-in during the program, and/or give us your questions [...]

This week, we’re airing our special program, recorded live in Faneuil Hall, on the subject of gang violence in Boston, and efforts to combat it. We had a lively discussion with folks from all across the city, resulting in a great hour of programming. Tune in this week, on Wednesday at 3, Friday [...]

This week, as President Obama considers the country’s next move in Afghanistan, we take a look a the toll the long conflict has taken on Massachusetts service members and their families. Send in your thoughts and comments here, and join us this Friday at 1.
Also in the hour, GOP senate candidates Scott [...]

Some public health officials believe incidences of the swine flu, or H1N1 flu, maybe reaching a plateau. But there is still not enough vaccine to go around, and some people are still getting sick. We’ll take a look this week at the impact of swine flu on our region. Have you gotten the vaccine? Have [...]

As your cell phone and computer clocks were automatically setting themselves back in the wee hours of Sunday morning, there was a similarly abstract-yet-important change taking place:

With just over a week to go before the November 3rd Mayoral Election, the campaigns are at a fever pitch, trying to get their supporters out to the polls.  We’ll use this Friday’s program to give listeners a last chance to ask questions of each of the two men hoping to be elected next Tuesday.