As I’m preparing for our Radio Boston broadcast on the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, I note that the Google news page has 3,429 news articles posted on this story.
How this most distinguished history professor came to be arrested and charged with disorderly conduct — is bizarre. How his familiar face, known to [...]

I usually cover the news. I’m not used being in the news. Wearing this shoe on the other foot was uncomfortable – and an excellent lesson in compassion.
Last Sunday morning, our chapel burned to the ground.

David Boeri caught up with Tom O’Neill, Tip O’Neill’s son. They spoke about the late Speaker’s political legacy. O’Neill said of his father, that though he was a "bread and butter democrat from North Cambridge", the elder O’Neill wasn’t afraid to take on the issues.
Listen to more of David’s interview with Tom O’Neill here:
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This week we’re exhuming the career of Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill as a new one man play, According to Tip, opens in Boston.
Listen to the full show:
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Nobody ever had to remind Tip O’Neill to remember where he came from. Even when he was the Speaker of the House, the most powerful Democrat in the country, [...]

Before the Charles gets to Boston Harbor, it has to contend with the locks…
 

 
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