Morning Edition Extra
The politicians remember Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci whose funeral is today. Also on the 60th anniversary of the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, their son talks about today's political climate, and Commentator Jeff Wagenheim contemplates the other boys of summer.
Sixty years ago, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by the US government for allegedly selling atomic secrets to the soviets. The Rosenbergs' youngest son -- Robert Meeropol -- went on to found the Rosenberg Fund for Children in Easthampton, MA -- which is marking the anniversary this weekend in New York.
A sneak preview of a new documentary, commentator Robert Chipkin pines for a moment over his 6th grade crush and a contestant for "The Voice"
On Morning Edition Extra 5/31/13: The tornado that ripped through western Massachusetts two years ago lefts a lasting impression on the people of Monson, among other towns and cities, also commentator Roland Merullo, just back from Cuba without any souvenirs, gives his take on Cuban - U.S. relations; and a story about a Belchertown, Mass., woman who is among a small group of elders not lingering in a nursing home.
One Northampton doctor recommends medical marijuana, despite a lack of dispensaries, commentator Dan Weingrod talks TV binge-viewing, emerald ash borers may be headed to New England, and UMass scientists use European fly larva to eradicate winter moths.
Ten years ago a new invasive pest from Europe known as the winter moth was discovered in not far from Boston. Often compared to the gypsy moth, it has since spread along the coastal New England and New York. Annually it damages about 100,000 acres of forest. Laurie Sanders reports:
A study on gambling's societal impact, an urban poet in Lenox and the late Randolph Bromery at StoryCorps
MA State Treasurer talks about internet taxes; how NE is securing energy from renewables to meet legislative mandates and one aspect of putting out brush fires
This week on Morning Edition Extra, ESPN's Howard Bryiant on Jason Collins coming out, plus contemporary art in traditional Stockbridge, Mass., and commentator Robert Chipkin on the Boston Marathon and his family's coming through OK, most of the time.
UMass alum Ken Feinberg to administer the One Fund Boston, a UMass graduate student calls out Harvard reasearch and a U.S. Senate candidate profile
