A new WBEZ report finds that “wealthier areas show much higher teen vaccination rates. With no immunization mandate, local districts face a season of uncertainty.”

WBEZ education reporter Sarah Karp joins Reset to share data and insights from her conversations with parents, students, and school staff.

Host: Susie An

Producers: Steve Bynum

Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police made it clear last year that any of its officers who participated in taking a knee with the Black Lives Matter Movement would face discipline up to and including expulsion from the union. Yet, news about the union defending a white Chicago officer who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol raised the question of a double standard.

A CPD officer and a retired commander share their candid experiences.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Judith Ruiz-Branch

Nestor “The Boss” Gomez stuttered as a kid. Today, he’s won more than 60 storytelling championships. Reset talks to Gomez about his favorite story he’s ever told, his series of immigration stories and his new book, Your Driver Has Arrived, about his time working for Uber.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Claire Hyman

WBEZ race, class and communities reporter Natalie Moore is in Finland for a two-and-a-half week reporting trip to explore the country’s open prison system. Reset checks in with Moore to hear how the trip’s going, and what she’s learned so far.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Lynnea Domienik

The first of R. Kelly’s two criminal trials gets underway in New York. Charges against the R&B singer include sex trafficking, kidnaping and forced labor.

Reset talks to the journalist whose years of in-depth reporting exposed Kelly’s illicit behavior.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Andrea Guthmann

Commuters have slowly been returning to public transportation after a year-long pandemic slump. But will Chicago requiring masks again indoors put the brakes on that? Will the Delta variant drive down ridership numbers again?

Reset hears from the Chicago Transit Authority about safety protocols, as well as rider and driver anxiety during COVID.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Andrea Guthmann

While world powers question how to move forward with the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan, social media giants have to decide what they’ll do about the group’s presence online.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Olivia Canny

Reset checks in with WBEZ sports contributor Cheryl Raye-Stout for an update on our favorite Chicago teams.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Claire Hyman

A new report examines how climate change is projected to quadruple the exposure of the roughly 32 million U.S. outdoor workers to hazardous heat conditions, while jeopardizing their health and earnings.

Rachel Licker of the Union of Concerned Scientists joins Reset to discuss her new co-authored report, “Too Hot to Work: Assessing the Threats Climate Change Poses to Outdoor Workers.”

Chicago’s Haitian-American community responds to Saturday’s earthquake, killing more than 1,400 in the southern region of Haiti.

Reset finds out how Chicagoans can best help those in Haiti.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producers: Andrea Guthmann