Today on Boston Public Radio:
Chuck Todd began the show by unpacking Tuesday’s election, including what Glenn Youngkin’s win for Virginia mayor means for Democrats and education as a divisible political issue. Todd is the moderator of “Meet the Press,” host of “Meet the Press Daily” on MSNBC and the political director for NBC News.
Then, we asked listeners about their reactions to Tuesday’s elections, including Youngkin’s win and Boston Mayor-elect Michelle Wu’s win.
Andrea Cabral talked about why only one Black juror was chosen in the trial of Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William Bryan, who shot Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020. Cabral is the former Suffolk County sheriff and the former Massachusetts secretary of public safety. She is currently the CEO of the cannabis company Ascend.
Paul Reville weighed in on why he maintains hope following Tuesday’s election, and his thoughts on Wu’s education plan. Reville is the former Massachusetts secretary of education and a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, where he also heads the Education Redesign Lab. His latest book, co-authored with Lynne Sacks, is “Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity: A Practical Guide for School and Community Leaders.”
Tori Bedford discussed her recent reporting on Mass and Cass following acting Mayor Kim Janey’s executive order, including the state of arrests, tent clearings and proceedings at a makeshift courthouse in the Suffolk County House of Correction. Bedford covers Boston’s neighborhoods, including Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan for GBH News.
Jon Gruber drew parallels between the government in the hit Korean show “Squid Game” and the United States, including who viewers and voters find culpable for poverty and why rich countries fail to care for their poor. Gruber teaches economics at MIT. He was instrumental in creating both the Massachusetts healthcare reform and the Affordable Care Act, and his latest book is “Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth And The American Dream.”
We ended the show by asking listeners whether they would eat insects, which was proposed as a solution to the environmental effect of farming at the U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow.
