Today is my last day as regular host of Radio Boston.
I want to thank all of you … the listeners … for giving me the opportunity to do the work I love. I never forget that you are the most important part of what we do at WBUR.
In the next few weeks, you’ll hear some [...]

It was February 18, 1952 – during a violent nor’easter two tankers split in half off the coast of Cape Cod. The Coast Guard in Chatam was alerted and in 70 knot winds and 60 foot seas four Coast Guard men aboard the 36 foot life boat CG36500, set out to rescue the men on the adrfit bow of the S.S. Pendleton.

31 Nights of Light!
You may have noticed a new addition to the Boston skyline this holiday season…it’s not a new building, but rather…new colors at the top of the Prudential Tower. The building’s characteristic double row of white lights have been updated, and beginning this year the Pru will be lit with a different color [...]

Join Ananda Lowe and CommonHealth blogger Rachel Zimmerman, for a live discussion about alternatives to labor and modern childbirth methods. Friday at 1 p.m.

Here are the names of the four Democratic candidates who are running to succeed the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the U.S. Senate:
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley,
Rep. Michael Capuano,
Businessman Stephen Pagliuca,
City Year co-founder Alan Khazei.
There won’t be a test, at least not yet.
But perhaps there should be and here’s why:
It has been a very [...]

It’s been eight years since America sent warriors to Afghanistan, and soon it will be eight years since men and women in our all-volunteer military have served in Iraq — some of them for two, three or four tours of duty.
The price those men and women have paid is unimaginably high — the wounds that [...]

We’re excited to welcome Scott Brown and Jack E. Robinson to Radio Boston this Friday, to take your calls and questions about the upcoming special Senate primary election in December. It’s an opportunity to ask the two Republican candidates why they think they’re the right person to fill the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat. [...]

Before the Centers for Disease Control got around to renaming the 2009 version of the swine flu “H1N1” you had to know that we were in for it.
Any virus that takes its name from a pig is going to have a marketing problem.
That said, swine flu is a serious public health issue that deserves serious discussion [...]

It’s been a flu-infused week.  Phone call after phone call, press release after press release, the Radio Boston team has been forced to understand, process, and document the swine flu crisis currently at hand.  Almost every morning, I’ve felt somewhat feverish.  Sympathetic symptoms are not such a stretch since we’ve been speaking with far too many folks who [...]

An independent report issued this week shows that MBTA finances are in terrible condition and the situation is possibly even worse than its critics have imagined.
It is yet another reminder that the so-called “infrastructure” of Boston and Massachusetts needs fixing and fast. Nothing made by man lasts forever and putting off replacement and repair usually [...]