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We review the biggest local headlines in health care for 2025 with WBUR senior health reporter Priyanka Dayal McCluskey and Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers' Michael Curry.

"Urban Nutcracker" opens its 25th season Friday at the Boch Center Shubert Theater. Here's a look at the production throughout the past quarter-century, the with local details that reflect Boston itself.

Ana Hebra Flaster immigrated as a 5-year-old on a Freedom Flight, a refugee airlift sponsored by President Lyndon Johnson.

Copyright law experts Peter Karol and Bhamati Viswanathan join WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss what the deal between Suno and Warner Music means for the future of intellectual property.

Food Network personality and Boston restaurateur Tiffani Faison joins WBUR's Morning Edition to share some winter cooking tips.

Evan Horowitz, Executive Director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to explain why residential property tax bills are ballooning in Boston.

WBUR's Simón Rios, the first reporter to break this story, spoke to WBUR's All Things Considered about what he found through public records and conversations with members of Ferreira's and Leavitt's families.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss her relationship with the Trump administration.

Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart previews this year's Holiday Pops. This is his 30th season conducting the orchestra.

Boston is one of four cities with a team for the inaugural 2026 season. A couple of weeks ago, the city's unnamed club selected Beth Greenwood of New Hampshire in the first-ever WPBL draft. Greenwood joined WBUR's Morning Edition to share her road to the big leagues.

Rep. Seth Moulton toured the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Burlington Monday. He joined WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss the visit, and how faster processing of detainees has left many with worse access to attorneys and family.

Journalist Noah Schaffer joined WBUR's Morning Edition to share a great list not-so-traditional holiday concerts for those who want to hear something different this year.

The Boston Athenaeum has more than 200 publications in nearly three dozen Indigenous languages from the U.S. and Canada that are being used for revitalization work.

The Trump administration announced plans to re-vet and re-interview refugees who were admitted to the U.S. under President Biden. That will affect thousands of immigrants living in Massachusetts, according to a local resettlement agency leader.

Scientists have been trying to solve the riddle of fusion energy for decades. Scott Kirsner, a columnist with our editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to report on Commonwealth Fusion Systems' progress.

Giselle Byrd, a Black transgender woman, runs a theater company in Boston. She spoke with WBUR Morning Edition Host Tiziana Dearing about how her life has changed following the harassment campaign and why she's determined to stay on the commission.

Policy analyst Evan Horowitz makes the case that Massachusetts should be able to keep those already on Medicaid insured, despite new eligibility rules that were signed into law by President Trump earlier this year.

Larry Summers spent decades leaving his fingerprints on Greater Boston's academic and political institutions. Now, as details of Summers' friendship with Jeffrey Epstein trickle out, those institutions face a reckoning.

"Remixed: The Unexpected Side of Science" is a full dome show, produced by the Museum of Science, Boston in partnership with the Dope Labs Podcast team.

Volunteers who've experienced suicide loss themselves offer support to those in the throes of a loved one's suicide. They're known as LOSS teams, which stands for Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors.

311 Omakase, a tiny but elaborate sushi restaurant in the South End, received Boston's first Michelin star at a ceremony Tuesday night.

Joyce Tavon heads the nonprofit Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance. She joined WBUR's All Things Considered to explain why she thinks new federal homelessness assistance requirements will upend a longtime policy that works.

Former Mass. state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz and Boston Globe political reporter James Pindell join WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how likely the strategy is to pay off — and who gets hurt if it doesn't.

Massachusetts Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins WBUR's Morning Edition to share his thoughts on the deal to end the government shutdown.

Fall River Bishop Edgar Moreira da Cunha is pushing back on the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations. He says they've gone too far and are hurting families.

Jenn Brezniak grew up on her grandfather's turkey farm in Lancaster. She speaks with WBUR's Morning Edition about the role generational farms play in communities.

Scott Kirsner, a columnist with our editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss a recent trip to the lab and the future of robotic caregivers.

After four decades on the federal bench, Judge Mark Wolf explains why he left.

Healey argues the compromise doesn't sufficiently protect the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that Democrats have made the centerpiece of the shutdown fight.

Dr. Leah Pierson says that, to settle any open questions about both Tylenol and other medications, drugmakers must do something uncomfortable.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu sat down with WBUR Morning Edition host Tiziana Dearing about the growing role of mayors in America and several other topics.

Boston Roller Derby league played its 20th season this year. Its players reflected on how the game literally pulls its players together — through both physical contact and community-building.

Tuesday's night's election results provided a jolt of energy for Democrats nation-wide. Closer to home, Sen. Ed Markey and U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton said the night's events bolstered their case in next year's Senate primary.

In one the of the biggest upsets in local elections yesterday, City Councilor Robert Van Campen ousted Everett's mayor of 17 years.

Rev. Miniard Culpepper has been elected to fill the Roxbury-based city council seat, per Boston's unofficial election tally. Culpepper joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss his priorities.

New England Conservatory teacher, composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol has a new record out called “Lessons from Nightingales: Songs of Sufi Mysteries.” It features a local singing group called Blue Heron. He tells us why he feels a deep connection to these songs.

Chelsea mom Iris Ivette Montufar gets a little over $400 each month in benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. Right now, she only has $30 left to support her and two of her children for November.

Cuts to federal food assistance and high grocery prices have heightened concerns about hunger in Massachusetts. Some Boston city councilors want to explore a possible solution: publicly owned grocery stores. 

Congressman Jake Auchincloss, a Newton native who served the city alongside Setti Warren, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to reflect on Warren's life and legacy.

Romy Neumark, an Israeli journalist and a lecturer at Harvard, explores the divide within the American Jewish community in the new podcast "My Home Fronts."

State Sen. Peter Durant joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how local and national politics have aligned to produce the unusual partisan standoff in a high-stakes moment for food access.

Massachusetts Congresswoman Lori Trahan says the state does not have enough money in its rainy day fund to cover the food assistance program SNAP and other federal benefits that will cut off Saturday.