6/23/21 Welcome to the first episode of Mass Reboot, a summer podcast series about restarting Massachusetts after COVID-19 and what we lost along the way. Each week, we’ll dive into a sector of life in the Commonwealth, exploring how the pandemic hit it, how it adapted, and how the people inside it envision a new normal. This week: Art. Hosts Libby Gormley, Steve Koczela, and Jennifer Smith of The Horse Race are spending time in Boston’s Theater District and Dorchester, then taking a wide view o...
Jun 23, 2021•28 min
Hi Codcast listeners! We're taking a brief hiatus for the summer. We'll be back in the fall, but until then, please enjoy a 10-week podcast series created by our friends at The MassINC Polling Group called Mass Reboot. --- What happens when you reboot a whole state? Yesterday, after one year, three months, and five days, the COVID-19 state of emergency ended in Massachusetts. With millions vaccinated across the state and with summer on its way, the gears are beginning to turn again. Things that ...
Jun 16, 2021•2 min
Massachusetts Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver talks about the return of traffic and the challenge of finding room for all of the transportation infrastructure in the Allston I-90 project.
Jun 14, 2021•24 min
Tax tutorial by Sen. Adam Hinds by CommonWealth Beacon
Jun 07, 2021•25 min
Annissa Essaibi George: A 'Boston girl' shaped by immigrant roots by CommonWealth Beacon
May 31, 2021•34 min
Baker pressed on Holyoke labor agreement by CommonWealth Beacon
May 24, 2021•28 min
Vaccines may be here, but the need for COVID-19 testing is not going away any time soon. That’s the prediction of Tim Rowe, the CEO of CIC Health, a private company that has been overseeing COVID-19 testing programs and also running mass vaccination sites in Massachusetts. “We are going to have a period of time where not everyone has the vaccine,” Rowe said. “And it's a little unclear what younger age groups will yet have the vaccine. And we have a world which is going to have storming COVID.” R...
May 17, 2021•23 min
Harvard economics professor Ed Glaeser is one of the foremost thinkers about the role played by cities. His 2011 book "The Triumph of the City" lays out all the ways cities have been central drivers of human civilization and innovation. Could the pandemic lead to a long-term repositioning of their role? Yes and no, he says on this episode of The Codcast.
May 10, 2021•25 min
Dr. Eric Dickson, the CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, says the health care inequities that have surfaced during the coronavirus pandemic can be addressed through policies that help hospitals like his that cater to some of the poorest people in the state. On The Codcast with John McDonough of the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard and Paul Hattis, formerly of Tufts University Medical School, Dickson outlined three key policies to improve health care equity – stop the expansion of Mas...
May 03, 2021•37 min
Danielle Allen is a scholar of Athenian democracy who has decided that she may have something to offer to the practice of democracy in 21st century Massachusetts. The Harvard professor announced in December that she was launching an exploratory run for governor,
Apr 26, 2021•32 min
Four questions for MBTA GM Steve Poftak by CommonWealth Beacon
Apr 19, 2021•25 min
New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell is of two minds about Vineyard Wind, which after lengthy regulatory delays seems poised to finally get underway. The mayor is excited about the potential for offshore wind farms to transform New Bedford the way they have many older European port cities, but he also worries that Massachusetts may be missing the boat when it comes to capturing the true value of the industry. “Offshore wind is really a generational opportunity for a city like ours to leverage its comp...
Apr 12, 2021•30 min
Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins and the no-prosecution study findings by CommonWealth Beacon
Apr 05, 2021•28 min
The US could have prevented the surge of COVID-19 cases this winter that killed hundreds of thousands of people if only the FDA had approved methods for at-home rapid testing and made the tests widely available. That is the argument made by Dr. Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, one of the country’s strongest proponents for the use of at-home rapid COVID-19 tests. “Had the regulatory barriers been broken down in the summer last year,...
Mar 28, 2021•27 min
Beacon Hill's public health priorities by CommonWealth Beacon
Mar 21, 2021•37 min
Chelsea leaders reflect on COVID's toll on state's hardest hit community by CommonWealth Beacon
Mar 15, 2021•29 min
Sen. Joseph Boncore and Rep. William Straus, the chairs of the Transportation Committee, engage in a lively debate about free bus fares.
Mar 08, 2021•31 min
Stephanie Jones and Nonie Lesaux of the Saul Zanentz Early Education Initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education discuss the lessons learned about childcare during COVID and how to rethink the industry in the diseases aftermath.
Mar 01, 2021•25 min
For Ben Downing, politics are personal by CommonWealth Beacon
Feb 22, 2021•33 min
An interview with Tom Croswell, the CEO of the still unnamed company combining Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan. He talks about the benefits of consolidation but also raises questions about its value in other areas of health care.
Feb 15, 2021•33 min
Michael Bobbitt, state's new arts leader by CommonWealth Beacon
Feb 08, 2021•27 min
Paul Biddinger, head of state vaccine advisory group by CommonWealth Beacon
Feb 01, 2021•32 min
Judd-Stein: Casinos haven't asked for COVID relief by CommonWealth Beacon
Jan 25, 2021•25 min
Baker under fire on climate bill by CommonWealth Beacon
Jan 18, 2021•26 min
Developer O'Brien: We need offices, cities by CommonWealth Beacon
Jan 11, 2021•30 min
Sens.-elect Adam Gomez of Springfield and John Cronin of Lunenburg pledge a focus on equity.
Jan 04, 2021•25 min
Sudders says she is hopeful for the first time by CommonWealth Beacon
Dec 28, 2020•34 min
Doug Bacon, the founder of the Red Paint Hospitality Group, and Greg Reibman, president of the Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce, share how COVID-19 is decimating the restaurant industry.
Dec 21, 2020•34 min
Soon-to-be Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark by CommonWealth Beacon
Dec 14, 2020•27 min
Jim Hunt, who is preparing to stop down as president and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, talks with Paul Hattis and John McDonough about the origins of the community health center movement and the current challenges.
Dec 07, 2020•26 min
