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Radio Boston digs into the state's third-party energy market, which some legislators and officials say has become too problematic to regulate and should be disbanded.

Roger Berkowitz knows fish and he knows the fish business. After all, he spent nearly 30 years as the CEO of Legal Sea Foods. He speaks with Radio Boston about climate change, challenges facing restaurants and the ebb and flow of family businesses.

New book tells stories of women whose children were charged with murder. We talk about the experiences of women in the Massachusetts criminal legal system.

Singer-songwriter Ava Della Pietra is making waves in the pop music world. She talks about her writing process and says overcoming writer's block requires having new experiences.

Dr. Kevin Tabb, president and CEO of Beth Israel Lahey Health, joins us. We talk about his leadership journey, the state of healthcare right now and the challenges it may face in the future.

In efforts to eliminate lead pipes by the next decade, the Boston Water and Sewer Commission announced a replacement program, which allows residents to replace lead pipes at zero cost.

Radio Boston talked to veteran sports writer Bob Ryan about his lifetime of work and what's to come for Boston's teams.

Steve Koczela of MassINC, Harvard professor and former gubernatorial candidate Danielle Allen and Wendy Wakemen, a Massachusetts GOP strategist, join Radio Boston to discuss what growing unenrollment means for future candidates and ballot measures. 

Radio Boston sits down with Lee McIntyre, a Boston University professor, author and senior advisor for Trust in Science at the Aspen Institute, to discuss the need to defend science from denialism and conspiracies.

The former Saturday Night Live star Kevin Nealon joins Radio Boston ahead of his stand-up set at City Winery Thursday.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing for greater oversight of all social media companies with a bipartisan bill that would cover issues from foreign ownership to protecting consumers' personal data.

Historian Susan Wilson joins us to discuss her new book: "Women and Children First: the trailblazing life of Susan Dimock M.D." 

John McDonough of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Health joins Radio Boston to discuss the future of healthcare in Massachusetts.

Radio Boston talks with Dr. Winfred Williams, the doctor of the man who received a genetically modified pig kidney in a first-of-its-kind operation.

Martha Sheridan, president and CEO of Meet Boston, the city's visitors and conventions bureau, joins us to talk about the current state of the tourism industry in Greater Boston and what's next for growth in the coming years.

WBUR state politics reporter Walter Wuthmann gives us the latest on the bills moving through the Massachusetts Legislature which would send more funding to the state emergency shelter system and impose time limits on shelter stays.

The nation's largest creative writing center is located right here in Boston. GrubStreet has taught students from around the world for the last 27 years. We talk with GrubStreet's founder and executive director about its mission and what's next for the center and its writers.

Massachusetts is a major hub for biotech and life sciences, and lab space in the state is needed for industry players. But since the real estate boom in lab spaces post-COVID, many are now opening up empty.

Brookline bans anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2000 from buying any tobacco products. The bylaw, adopted in 2020 and upheld by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court earlier this month, paves the way for other communities in the commonwealth to install similar generational bans on tobacco purchases. 

Amid growing pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the country, Colette Phillips, author of the book "The Includers," and Bob Rivers, CEO of Eastern Bank, sit down with Radio Boston to discuss why white men are key to move the work of inclusion forward.