We wrap up our series talking with the major candidates for mayor of Boston with John Barros, the city's former chief of economic development and mayoral candidate.

Plus, a roundup of COVID updates from Dr. Ashish Jah, and a conversation with mayoral candidate John Barros, Boston's former chief of economic development.

We last spoke with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley after she spent the night on the Capitol steps urging the Biden Administration to extend the eviction moratorium, even if it meant a battle in the courts.

We speak with Dr. Ashish Jha: physician, health policy researcher, professor and Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.

We break it all down with Richard Tisei, former Republican leader of the Massachusetts State Senate and former Republican candidate for Congress, and Tito Jackson, former Boston City Councilor and now CEO of Verdant Medical, a cannabis company.

Hundreds of nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester are still not back at work after nearly six months on strike. We hear from the hospital CEO, Carolyn Jackson.

As we continue to cover the issues at the center of an historic Boston mayoral election, we check in on the neighborhood between Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. WBUR's Deborah Becker has reported extensively on the issues facing the neighborhood, and joins us to talk about what she observed during her most recent visit.

Radio Boston continues its series of conversations with the leading candidates vying to become the next mayor of Boston. Here are interview highlights from a conversation with acting Mayor Kim Janey.

Plus, we check in with Acting Mayor and mayoral candidate Kim Janey, and review the major news of the week, including Thursday's deadly attack in Kabul, with our expert panel.

At the beginning of August, we caught you up on more than 700 nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, who had been on strike since March. As of today, they are still not back at work.