WBUR's Quotation Of The Week
Each week, we’re going to pick a newsworthy or huh?-worthy or whoa-worthy quotation that stuck with us.
Quotation Of The Week: Local Muslims React To Trump
After the Republican presidential front-runner announced his controversial plan to temporarily block Muslims from entering the U.S., WBUR visited the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center for reaction.
Quotation Of The Week: Late Night MBTA, We Hardly Knew Ye?
MBTA fiscal control board members this week expressed frustration with the current late night service -- its low ridership and thus its high per-trip subsidy.
Quotation Of The Week: Teaching Vets New Skills
One in five students at the North Bennet Street School, which offers training in trades and craftsmanship, is a military veteran.
Quotation Of The Week: Remembering Tom Menino
It's been a year since Menino, Boston's longest-serving mayor, passed away.
Quotation Of The Week: Uncertain Future For Green Line Extension
State officials acknowledged that the long-promised Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford is likely to be delayed.
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Quotation Of The Week: The Urban Renewal Debate, Renewed In 2015
It's a subject weighed down by history, as Boston's West End was infamously razed in the 1950s and '60s in the name of urban renewal.
Quotation Of The Week: 'We Should Politicize' Mass Shootings, Obama Says
A clearly exasperated President Obama bemoaned the frequency of mass shootings in America.
Quotation Of The Week: Addiction As A Disease
At the Substance Use Disorders Initiative at Mass General, treating addiction as a chronic condition is the norm.
Quotation Of The Week: Murder Charge Dropped Against Nanny
Aisling Brady McCarthy had been accused of killing a Cambridge 1-year-old in her care. The change came after the medical examiner altered the cause of death from "homicide" to "undetermined."
Quotation Of The Week: Tsarnaev Juror Speaks
In an interview with WBUR, Kevan Fagan, 23, said he “probably” would have changed his death penalty vote had he known that the family of the slain Martin Richard and...
Quotation Of The Week: Janis Joplin's Final 'Burst Onto The Stage'
Forty-five years ago this week — on Aug. 12, 1970 — Janis Joplin held her final concert. It was in front of an estimated 40,000 spectators at Harvard Stadium. She...
Quotation Of The Week: Opioid Crisis Rages On
Patti Scalesse's son was discharged from the Marines at age 21 with a prescription for pain medication. Within a year, she says, he had switched to heroin.
Quotation Of The Week: Walsh's Words, Then A Withdrawn Olympic Bid
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said he was not ready to sign an agreement that would put the city on the hook for any cost overruns. Hours later, the Olympics bid...
Quotation Of The Week: 'No Such Thing As A Bad Kid,' Boston's Top Cop Says
William Evans says his humble roots helped shape his views about community policing.
Quotation Of The Week: Hello, Pluto!
After some nine years and 3 billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft buzzed by the dwarf planet this week.
Quotation Of The Week: Rising Rent Worries In Eastie
Rents and home prices have risen in a big way in East Boston, leading many to worry that the neighborhood is losing its immigrant identity.
Quotation Of The Week: 'Minimal' Olympic Risk?
Whether voters agree that Olympic risks are "very minimal" -- and/or worth potential benefits -- well, that's the question going forward.
Quotation(s) Of The Week: Tsarnaev Apologizes; Gay Marriage Legal Across U.S.
At his formal sentencing, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said: "I am sorry for the lives that I've taken."
Quotation Of The Week: Charleston Church Killings
On Wednesday evening, a white man fatally shot nine people in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Quotation Of The Week: Boston Teen Gunned Down
On Wednesday evening, a 16-year-old who was riding his bike near his Dorchester home was shot and killed.