We take listener calls with Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician, public health physician, epidemiologist at Boston College, and Dr. Shira Doron, infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center.

Boston Acting Mayor Kim Janey joins us to talk COVID, schools, housing, and policing, as well as reflect on the preliminary election.

Plus, an update on the effort to vaccinate raccoons in Cape Cod against rabies.

This fall, wildlife officials will distribute hundreds of thousands of rabies vaccine doses on the ground and by helicopter.

As part of our preview, we revisit a conversation between Patrick Gabridge and Radio Boston's Chris Citorik about a previous production at the cemetery, called "The Nature Plays."

We take listener calls with Marie-Frances Rivera, President of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, and Jim Stergios, executive director of the Pioneer Institute, on the Boston preliminary election results and infrastructure challenges facing the Commonwealth.

We take calls and talk to Jim Stergios, Executive Director of the think-tank Pioneer Institute, and Marie-Frances Rivera, President of the Massachusetts Budget Policy Center, to break down all this and more.

With the Red Sox decimated by a still-ongoing COVID outbreak, they are still somehow clinging to a playoff spot. So, what are their chances to actually contend in the postseason? And what lessons can we learn from the team's handling of the pandemic? We Check the Score with Radio Boston's Chris Citorik.

Plus, how some new changes will make healthcare more affordable and easier to access for some trans and non-binary Massachusetts residents. Also, we check in with Massachusetts Congressman Bill Keating.

We talk to local school administrators to understand the root of the problem.