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.

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton flew in secret to the Kabul airport on Tuesday, stunning the State Department and Biden administration officials.

The child care industry has been hit especially hard by pandemic, and is now struggling to find enough staff to deal with rising enrollments.

Plus, we check-in with leaders of the St. Vincent nurses strike, and discuss the staffing shortages among child-care providers with the cofounder of a local preschool and labor expert.

What does it take for a Black arts organization to thrive and be sustainable in Boston? Two local organizations are betting that a short-term partnership is part of that equation.

Plus, we talk to a local refugee worried about his family in Afghanistan.

We take listener calls with Dr. Cassandra Pierre, acting hospital epidemiologist and an infectious diseases physician at Boston Medical Center, and Dr. Shira Doron, infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center.