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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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Coming up Tuesday on BPR, live from the BPL:

CNN’s John King
NBC Sports Boston’s Trenni Casey
Top Chef contestant chef Laurence Louie and his business and life partner Rary Ratsifa, of Rubato in Quincy
Former congressman Joe Kennedy III about his close friend, college roommate: the late basketball player Jason Collins

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Retired federal judge says she 'will go anywhere in the country' to represent abortion patients and doctors

Nancy Gertner tells Boston Public Radio about the lawyers fighting for reproductive healthcare.

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Porter Square Books' Katharine Nazzaro and Frugal Bookstore’s Clarrissa Cropper list their favorites.

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In the post-Roe era, some medical and legal experts are worried for the future of in vitro fertilization

With the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, many fear restrictions on IVF.

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'It’s our job to show up': How environmentalists can build political power after the EPA ruling

Nathaniel Stinnett says environmental activism has been historically apolitical, but that needs to change.

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Michelle Wu calls recent Supreme Court rulings 'disempowering' and 'anti-American'

Boston's mayor commented on decisions reversing Roe v. Wade and limiting the EPA.

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Exit Interview: Superintendent Cassellius says she's ‘very worried’ about staffing shortages

Boston’s School Committee will vote on her replacement Wednesday, and Cassellius departs Thursday.

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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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