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We opened the present by taking calls from our listeners to ask if they’re returning to public transit following the grand opening of a brand new department on the Inexperienced Line Monday morning. The Medford department connects Tufts College to downtown Somerville.

E.J. Dionne Jr. mentioned a few of his newest columns for the Washington Put up, together with his plea to conservative Christians to vary their thoughts on same-sex marriage. He additionally mentioned Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s choice to modify her social gathering registration. Dionne is a columnist on the Put up and a senior fellow at The Brookings Establishment. His newest e book is “Code Purple: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Nation.”

Stephanie Leydon and Frances Amador of Metropolis Life/Vida Urbana mentioned the most recent installment of “Priced Out,” a GBH Information collection protecting the rising housing prices in Boston. Leydon is director of particular tasks at GBH Information. Amador is a longtime East Boston resident who began working with the housing advocacy group Metropolis Life/Vida Urbana when she and everybody else in her constructing have been set to be evicted. She’s additionally the topic of a “Priced Out” profile, out there to learn or take heed to right here.

Corby Kummer discusses the return of the restaurant Japanese Commonplace, free college lunches for youngsters, an indignant Olive Backyard supervisor and Pepsi’s “Pilk.” Kummer is the manager director of the meals and society coverage program on the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer on the Tufts Friedman Faculty of Diet Science and Coverage.

Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Worth III discuss in regards to the finish of Trevor Noah’s tenure on “The Day by day Present,” the discharge of Brittney Griner and fractions throughout the Methodist church over positions on LGBTQ rights. Monroe is a syndicated faith columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Path. Worth is founding pastor of Group of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, the inaugural dean of Africana research at Berklee Faculty of Music.

Jon Gruber defined why pedestrian and car deaths are on the rise in america regardless of falling charges globally, and the financial impacts of huge vehicles. Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT. His newest e book is “Leap-Beginning America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Financial Progress and the American Dream.”

We ended the present taking our listeners’ calls about what they plan on binging through the vacation season because the Golden Globe nominations are launched.