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August 25, 2014
Updated January 10, 2016
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(Starts at 1:00) To start things off on the Monday politics segment, UMass Boston professor Erin O’Brien and WGBH’s Peter Kadzis looked at state races ahead of the September 9th primary, sexual harassment allegations against the mayor of Everett, and the President’s golf habit.
(Starts at 35:30) Attorney General candidate Maura Healey joined Jim and Margery to talk about her candidacy.
(Starts at 59:45) The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III were back for another edition of All Revved Up. On the docket: a showdown in Ferguson, MO, and the funeral of Michael Brown.
(Starts at 1:20:30) Do you think it’s acceptable for President Obama to be playing rounds of golf with so many roiling crises around the world? Jim and Margery opened up the lines to callers.
(Starts at 1:35:00) Boston Globe sports enterprise reporter Shira Springer joined Jim and Margery to talk about the Little League World Series, including 13-year-old phenom Mo’ne Davis, and Cumberland, RI’s chance to shine.