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Starting in April, Riverdale may have to pay 50% combined tariffs imposed in Canadian steel by the Trump administration. Riverdale Mills CEO James Knott Jr. joins WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about what impact those tariffs will have on his business.

After 40 years of planning, work and more than one billion dollars, starting Monday morning, rail service will connect South Coast communities, including New Bedford and Fall River with Boston.

The wife of former governor and Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, Kitty was recalled by friends and family members as someone who was drawn to those who were suffering, worked tirelessly to help them, and advanced both policy and awareness on social issues and human rights.

Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy, who's covered Pitino for more than 50 years, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to reflect on Pitino's complicated career and legacy.

The MBTA will soon brings its services to several South Coast communities with its highly anticipated, $1.1 billion expansion. The first South Coast Rail train is set to begin taking passengers Monday morning.

"The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America was built on," said the Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey.

The Boston Globe's Michael Silverman joins WBUR's All Thing Considered to break down the news.

Hundreds of people angered by national politics are crowding town halls led by members of Massachusetts' all-Democratic congressional delegation. Many are venting frustrations with Democrats' inaction as the Trump administration moves to dismantle or threaten government services.

Ken Reid is a stand-up comedian and the unofficial dean of Boston nostalgia. He joins WBUR's Morning Edition to lament the loss of a little piece of Boston's soul.

The Ashmont branch of the MBTA's Red Line will be under construction for all of April.