Tiziana C. Dearing

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I'm Tiziana Dearing in Boston, and this is Up Next, where we catch you up on the week's news and dive into a conversation about the issues and people in greater Boston.

This week, Hasbro CEO Chris Cox.

They're the company that makes Play-Doh and Monopoly, and they're moving from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to Boston in January.

The producers who worked on this episode, Amanda Beland, Steph Brown, and Rob Lane.

Yasmeen Amr edited, Marquise Neal mixed and sound designed it.

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Her career has spanned decades, working her way up from an overnight production assistant at NPR to lead one of the largest public media organizations.

Margaret told Tiziana Dearing why she's stepping down now.

I'm going because it feels like the perfect moment.

Uh, WBUR is soaring.

That means all candidates from all parties would appear on the same ballot, and the top two vote-getters would move forward to the general election.

WBUR's Tiziana Dearing spoke to Tufts University's Evan Horowitz.

He's the executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis, which publishes guides every year on the potential impacts of these questions.

Here's Evan.

So it's definitely the one that's getting sort of the most attention from people who are interested in interesting political ideas.

That was Evan Horowitz on Question 3.

He also spoke with WBUR's Tiziana Dearing about Question 7.

A yes on this would make it easier to build single-family homes in Massachusetts by overriding some local rules.

TFA is a nonprofit that trains recent college grads and places them in classrooms, but they can't keep up with demand for STEM teachers, especially in districts such as Boston, Lawrence, and Fall River.

Donahue told WBUR's Tiziana Dearing the shortage could get worse, and she has ideas for how to fill the gap.

Every year, this happens to us at Teach For America, where we get calls well into the school year, um, asking if we have any science and math teachers.

Specifically for high school and middle school are where we see the greatest need.

Jennifer Smith is a senior reporter for the Commonwealth Beacon covering this story.

She joined WBUR's Tiziana Dearing and began with what happened last year at the Suffolk County Courthouse.

So this was the case of Wilson Martel LeBron, and this is a Dominican national who was accused of basically fabricating information on a driver's license application.

Now, this five-year process and investigation didn't just involve state police and state prosecutors.

What do they look like missing half that equation?

So far, I'll be honest, Tiziana, as the Celtics wrap up their training camp, it doesn't look all that different.

There is a different energy in the gym, I would say, without Jalen.

He was a very, very large presence both on defense And off the court, but Jason Tatum remains and largely the Celtics leadership does as well.

Paul brings a wealth of experience, as you mentioned, heading into his 17th season.

He is trending towards his late 30s but the thing that is wonderful about Paul while he was a generational player in his prime he has largely said all of the right things and is doing all of the right things so far since coming to Boston and that is saying that he understands Jason Tatum is the superstar of this team he is secure and happy in his role as being someone who should support him.

And Tiziana, I am honestly very excited to see what these two can do on the floor.

So George is 36 and he is sort of playing the wiser, older role.

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I'm Tiziana Dearing in Boston.

This is Up Next, where we catch you up on the week's news and dive into an issue facing Massachusetts.

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