Congressman Bill Keating talks Afghanistan, spending, and infrastructure.

We've talked a lot about the Boston mayoral race, but there were some other fascinating preliminaries Tuesday in communities from Lynn to Newton, Gloucester and Framingham, where incumbents defended, open seats were contested, and everything from race, to gender, to COVID, was at play.

Plus, is Boston the most racist city? We take your calls.

Journalist Dart Adams says that Black Bostonians are often left out of debates about how racist the city is or isn't.

Now that the field has been cut down to two, what will the general election look like? And what do these results tell us about our city?

We hear an update from WBUR's Simon Rios from Florian Hall in Dorchester and then from Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin.

Plus, should schools be making more time for students to process and heal as they return to the classroom? And we take listener questions in another edition of Ask the Doctors.

Students in schools across the Commonwealth are back to the business of studying and there may be a great deal to make up for in the classroom, as we start our third academic year affected by COVID.

We take listener calls with Dr. Davidson Hamer of Boston Medical Center and Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez of Tufts Medical Center.

We speak to Dorchester Reporter managing editor Gin Dumcius for a round-up on who is throwing their wallets behind which candidates.