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Political Roundtable: Harassment, Governor Race & Pittsburgh Aftermath

Politics/economics reporter Ted Nesi from WPRI-TV, Channel 12, joins the panel to discuss allegations of sexual harassment involving lawmakers, the race for governor, and the aftermath of recent violence in Pittsburgh.

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MA Residents Will Vote On Three Ballot Questions

Massachusetts’ voters will decide three ballot questions in next week’s election. They address issues including transgender rights and the Citizens United Supreme Court decision on campaign finance. Scott MacKay, Political Analyst for The Public’s Radio, and Michael Goodman, Director of the Public Policy Center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, discuss these ballot questions in […]

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Scott MacKay’s Commentary: Local Election Cycle Appears More National

It used to be that all politics –particularly in parochial New England –is local. But The Public’s Radio political analyst Scott MacKay says this election cycle everything seems to be a national.

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Artscape: A Witch Tale For The Season

Author Laird Hunt, professor of literary arts at Brown University, is out with a haunting new book, in his series of female-narrated historical novels. The setting for this one is early colonial New England, where the new residents are bound by their strict religion and living in precarious settlements on the edge of an unfamiliar […]

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