Best Of BPR 7/25: Live Music With Solas Ahead Of Lowell Folk Fest & Rep. Auchincloss Makes The Case For New Cities

Boston Public Radio hosts Margery Eagan and Jim Braude.

Best Of BPR 7/25: Live Music With Solas Ahead Of Lowell Folk Fest & Rep. Auchincloss Makes The Case For New Cities

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Boston Public Radio Podcast

About The Episode

Today:

We’ll start with Live Music Friday, from Irish folk band Solas performing for us ahead of the Lowell Folk Festival.

And, Massachusetts Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins us with MIT economist Jon Gruber – making the case for new cities -- as in, we need to build a lot of housing, and quickly, if we’re going to get ourselves out of the housing crisis.

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Margery Eagan

Margery Eagan is the co-host of 89.7 WGBH’s midday program Boston Public Radio. She has worked with co-host Jim Braude for 18 years, first doing a TV show together at NECN then a radio show at WTKK. The duo came to WGBH in 2013.

Jim Braude

Jim Braude is the co-host of Boston Public Radio.During law school, Jim ran a small retail business in Provincetown (HUBE - Help Us Break Even!). He started his professional career as a legal services lawyer in the South Bronx handling housing and prisoners’ rights cases. He was the founder and first president of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, a union representing staff in civil legal offices for the poor in 35 states. NOLSW helped lead the fight to preserve the national program when President Reagan proposed its abolition.

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