"There is no issue that I am moving with greater urgency and intention than this issue of housing," said Healey. She said that to fix the housing shortage, state and local governments need to work together and that the problem needs “collective action.”
Radio Boston discusses East Boston's immigrant community and changing landscape in connection with a new documentary called "Open Your Heart: Immigrant Stories from Boston and Beyond".
Screenwriter Simon Stephenson claims Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers," steals the broader structures, themes and character dynamics of Stephenson's unproduced screenplay "Frisco." Two Intellectual property law experts and a film critic join Radio Boston to dissect the allegations.
Only 1% of wine businesses in the U.S. are Black-owned, according to the Association of African American Vintners. Boston is home to one of them. Radio Boston speaks with TJ Douglas about his growing business, Urban Grape, and what's next.
Radio Boston sits down with WBUR senior podcast producer Amory Sivertson to talk about her new podcast, "Beyond All Repair." Sivertson recounts her reporting process and how a he-said-she-said case with a complex web of family secrets has unraveled decades later.
Healey office said a blanket pardon of those convicted of simple marijuana possession could affect "hundreds of thousands" of people in Massachusetts. But what impact will this have on the daily lives of people with previous convictions?
Newton-born folk singer Aoife O'Donovan joined Radio Boston to talk about her upcoming album, which digs into women's suffrage in America and the rights women still have to fight for.