Steve Brown is a WBUR News host and reporter.
Steve began his career in radio while still in high school in the late 1970's on Cape Cod. In 1979, during his freshman year at Emerson College, Steve began providing news reports from the Massachusetts State House for various radio stations around the state including WROR and WRKO in Boston, WMAS in Springfield, WNBH in New Bedford and WCIB in Falmouth.
In 1987, Steve joined the staff of WMJX and WMEX in Boston as a political and general assignment reporter, heading up the station's award winning coverage of the Dukakis presidential campaign. In the early 1990's, Steve began working in television as a reporter and writer at WLVI TV in Boston, and later at WBZ TV (CBS-4).
Steve returned to his radio roots in 2003 as an news anchor/host at WBUR.
E-mail Steve: sbrown@bu.edu
Steve twitters @stevenebrown and at @WBURSteve
BOSTON — 750 people were given the H1N1 swine flu vaccine at a clinic in Uphams Corner in Dorchester. The clinics at community health centers are being held as the vaccine slowly becomes more available.
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick is expected to announce budget reductions Thursday afternoon to help close an estimated $600 million dollar spending gap.
BOSTON — Despite a financial setback that put this year’s First Night Boston celebration in jeopardy, the festivities will go on as planned.
SUDBURY, Mass. — Tarek Mehanna is being held without bail in police custody. The Sudbury resident is facing federal charges of conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks in the US. We visit his Sudbury neighborhood to find out more about the man.
BOSTON — The intimidating right-hander gave up three in the ninth, allowing the Angels to come from behind for a 7-6 win and a sweep of their AL division series.
BOSTON — Trailing the Los Angeles Angels two games to none in the best of five American League Division series, the Red Sox must win Sunday afternoon’s game, or their season is over.
BOSTON — A flap over e-mails deleted from the city computers of a top aide to Mayor Thomas Menino seems to have become a key issue in an otherwise lackluster mayoral campaign.
BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is reviewing the case of e-mails deleted by a top aide to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino for possible violations of state public records law.
BOSTON — A top aide to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, at the center of an investigation into deleted e-mails, is taking an unpaid leave of absence. The mayor’s office announced late Tuesday that Michael Kineavy sought the departure.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Cambridge lawmaker cited for leaving the scene of a weekend accident says he “panicked” because of his driving history, which includes two drunken driving convictions. “I think my judgment was poor,” said state Sen. Anthony Galluccio said in a WBUR interview.
BOSTON — Thirty years after Pope John Paul II celebrated his first Mass in the United States, in Boston, a remembrance of the city still reeling from racial tension.
BOSTON — With Massachusetts state revenue down more than expected this year, programs for children and the needy may be on the chopping block again.
BOSTON — With an open seat, and a special election less than four months away state senator Scott Brown of Wrentham hopes to change the fortunes for his party, and occupy what’s come to be known as “the Kennedy Seat.”
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick named former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. on Thursday to temporarily fill the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s seat, acknowledging the appointment was controversial but saying the issues before Congress were “too important to Massachusetts for us to be one voice short.”
BOSTON — As the Massachusetts Legislature moves forward with a bill that would give Gov. Deval Patrick the authority to appoint an interim U.S. senator until a permanent replacement is elected in January, a number of names have surfaced as possible appointees.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate has approved a bill allowing the governor to name an interim replacement to fill the late Edward Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate has begun debating a bill to give the governor the ability to appoint an interim U.S. senator to serve until after a special election for a permanent replacement can be held.
BOSTON — Republicans in the Massachusetts state Senate have again forced a delay of action on a bill that would give Gov. Deval Patrick the authority to appoint an interim U.S. senator to serve in Washington until a permanent replacement is elected next January.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate is considering a measure that would let Gov. Deval Patrick appoint an interim U.S. senator.
BOSTON — After meeting for less than five minutes Friday, Massachusetts Republicans temporarily blocked Senate debate on a bill allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim appointment to the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
