BPR Full Show 5/09/2019: A Crash Course in Rosé

Today on Boston Public Radio:

• We opened up the lines and asked our listeners about Elizabeth Warren’s plan to tackle opioid addiction, including calling on institutions like Harvard to remove the Sackler family name — the family behind Purdue Pharma — from prominent buildings.

• The House Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to hold A.G. William Barr in contempt of Congress. CNN legal analyst Michael Zeldin weighed in.

• Former Suffolk County sheriff Andrea Cabral discussed newly released video of Sandra Bland’s encounter with police.

• Medical ethicist Arthur Caplan weighed in on a new “heartbeat” abortion law in Georgia, one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.

• WCAI science editor Heather Goldstone talked about a sobering U.N. study warning that over one million species may face extinction because of the human impact on the environment.

• Former Congressman and Secretary of both Congress and Transportation Norman Mineta shared the upcoming PBS documentary about his life.

• Joining us for a crash course in rosé were TJ and Hadley Douglass, the co-owners of “The Urban Grape.”