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FAQs about WBUR Up Next:How many episodes does WBUR Up Next have?The podcast currently has 5,435 episodes available.
December 11, 2024Supreme Court dismisses case against Boston exam schoolsThe U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case against out of Boston this week over the admission policy at three exam schools. Radio Boston spoke to Oren Sellstrom, litigation director for Lawyers for Civil Rights in Boston and part of the defense team in this case....more8minPlay
December 10, 2024State Sen. Brownsberger on why he's out on Wu's property tax shift planMassachusetts state Sen. Will Brownsberger joins Radio Boston to discuss the collapse of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's plan to avert a property tax spike for city homeowners by temporarily raising rates on commercial property owners....more12minPlay
December 10, 2024A new high school for LGBTQIA+ students is opening next fall in the BerkshiresOn Radio Boston, we speak with Allison Druin, co-founder and head of a brand new LGBTQIA+ private high school in Western Massachusetts....more12minPlay
December 09, 2024How genetically engineered mice could stop the spread of Lyme diseaseKevin Esvelt, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab and the inventor of CRISPR-based gene drive, joins Radio Boston....more17minPlay
December 06, 2024What to know about a Mass. lawsuit challenging educational publisher on reading methodsTwo Massachusetts mothers are suing an educational publisher over their reading products. They say the publisher promoted "deceptive" products using a method for teaching reading that has been scientifically shown not to be effective, and instead further stalls kids from learning how to read well....more9minPlay
December 06, 2024Boston City Councilor Fernandes Anderson arrested on public corruption chargesWBUR's Walt Wuthman joins Radio Boston with the latest....more8minPlay
December 06, 2024MBTA analyst Brian Kane on how the T fell apart, and how to fix itKane's new report "Always Broke" explores more than 100 years of public transit history in Boston in an attempt to understand how to fix funding and management dysfunction going forward. ...more14minPlay
December 05, 2024New BU class looks at the stories about UFOs and Bigfoot throughout the centuriesA new Boston University class is exploring how people throughout the centuries have believed in the unbelievable — and what that tells us about our ourselves....more9minPlay
December 05, 2024Critics of the new Mass. clean energy law fear requirements undermine changeThomas Hochman, a policy manager at the Foundation for American Innovation, explains why he thinks the recent major state climate bill has elements that undermine real change....more8minPlay
December 04, 2024What we know about the reported probe into a sitting Boston city councilorWBUR's Walt Wuthmann joins Radio Boston to share his reporting on Tania Fernandes Anderson, the Boston city councilor who is reportedly facing a federal investigation....more8minPlay
FAQs about WBUR Up Next:How many episodes does WBUR Up Next have?The podcast currently has 5,435 episodes available.