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Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for a smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston and New England. To share your opinion, email bpr@wgbh.org or call/text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Join us live at our Boston Public Library studio every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. We stream every day on YouTube.com/GBHNews.

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Congressman Stephen Lynch
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Recent segments

Jane Oates: $600 Unemployment Benefits Still Matter

The president of the nonprofit WorkingNation talked how unemployment funds affect and help struggling Americans.

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Juliette Kayyem: Explosion In Beirut Caused By 'Remarkable Form Of Negligence'

The 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate that went off had been stored insecurely for over six years in a Beirut warehouse, Kayyem says.

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Remembering The First US Recipient Of A Near-Total Face Transplant

Connie Culp died last week at the age of 57.

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Larry Tye: New Biography Of Joseph McCarthy Draws Throughline To Donald Trump

Tye discussed his biography of McCarthy, "Demagogue: The Life And Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy."

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Carol Rose: ‘Massachusetts Is Not Immune' To Police Misconduct

The executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts also explained the status of legislation, currently moving through the State House, to address police reform.

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John King: Trump’s Vote-By-Mail Attacks Could Suppress GOP Election Turnout

CNN’s chief national correspondent responded to a tweet from the president, who appeared to be reversing course on his prior narrative about fraudulent mail-in voting.

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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.

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Jim Braude

Jim Braude

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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