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Checking in at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard

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Boston Public Health Commission workers load bins full of belongings into a van on Southampton Street during the clearing out of people living in tents in the "Mass. and Cass" area. They will be taken to a storage facility and held onto for up to 90 days. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Boston Public Health Commission workers load bins full of belongings into a van on Southampton Street during the clearing out of people living in tents in the "Mass. and Cass" area. They will be taken to a storage facility and held onto for up to 90 days. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

This is the Radio Boston rundown for November 8. Tiziana Dearing is our host.

    • Tents are continuing to come down at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, despite a lawsuit from the ACLU of Massachusetts trying to block their removal. This, as a makeshift courtroom in Suffolk County Jail continues to process some people live at 'Mass. and Cass' who have outstanding warrants. First, we check-in with WBUR Senior Correspondent Deborah Becker, who's spent weeks covering the unfolding situation in the area. Then, we hear from Marty Martinez, chief of Health and Human Services for the city of Boston. Lastly we bring in a new voice into the conversation. Brendan Little is a member of the state's Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund Advisory Council. He wrote about his experiences living on the street and struggles with addiction in the Boston Globe today.
    • Treating brain diseases like crime scenes. That's the argument from the new book, "The Brain Under Siege: Solving the Mystery of Brain Disease and How Scientists Are Following the Clues to a Cure." Author Dr. Howard Weiner, Robert L. Kroc professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, director and founder of the Brigham MS Center, and co-director of the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital, joins us.


This program aired on November 8, 2021.

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