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Farm To Table, Identity Politics, And A Future for The Salt Institute
Callie speaks with reporters to roundup local news and sits down with the executive director of Salt Institute, the President of the Maine College of Art, and an alum. -
NH Round Up And A New Comedy Major
Callie Crossley is joined by New Hampshire insiders Arnie Arnesen and Pat Griffin. Then later, she discusses Emerson College's new comedy major with a professor, a student, and a working comic. -
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Boston's Poet Laureate, Common Core vs. MCAS, Is Puerto Rico The New Selma?
Marcela Garcia, of the Boston Globe, and Julio Ricardo Varela, of Latino Rebels joined Callie Crossley to talk about the stories that may have missed your radar this week. We also hear from Boston's new poet laureate- Danielle Legros Georges. -
How To Fix The MBTA: With Former State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson
A Dianne Wilkerson refresher: she represented the Second Suffolk District from 1993 to 2008. The Second Suffolk includes Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, and parts of Mattapan, Dorchester, Mission Hill, and Chinatown. In 2008, she was charged with accepting bribes for liquor licensing and a development project in Roxbury. Wilkerson served three and a half years of jail time for bribery, and was released from federal prison in September 2013. Since then, she's largely stayed out of the media spotlight. We reached out to Wilkerson on Under the Radar because she knows a lot about the politics at play when it comes to two major stories in Boston right now: who's to blame when it comes to the MBTA's many problems; and the questions we should be asking about Boston's Olympic bid. -
The State's Failing Schools, The City's Wunderkinds
Julio Ricardo Varela sits in for Callie Crossley. The fight to keep the failing Holyoke School System in the city’s power and the so-called new wunderkinds at Boston’s City Hall.Digital life has not only changed the way we interact with our government, but the way government interacts with us- Julio talks with Boston’s first Chief Digital Officer. -
John Barros Spins Dudley Square, Boston Olympics
Boston's chief of economic development, John Barros, on the renovation of Dudley Square in Roxbury and his spin on the Boston Olympics
