BPR Full Show: Mel King's Legacy

Today on Boston Public Radio:

Several schools throughout the state of Massachusetts went into lockdown after receiving swatting calls. Even though the threats are false, the impact is real. We asked listeners to share their thoughts.

Michael Curry, President and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, joined to reflect on longtime Boston political activist Mel King and his legacy.

Senator Elizabeth Warren joined to discuss her senate re-election bid and her demands for more oversight of the Federal Reserve.

National security expert Juliette Kayyem on the Washington Post piece detailing damage done by AR-15s to young bodies and the significance of Trump at Waco.

Medical ethicist Art Caplan discusses Sen. Sanders grilling Moderna for quadrupling COVID vaccine price and Cigna’s penny-pinching practice of having doctors reject claims without reading them.

Boston Globe travel writer Christopher Muther talks about his latest column on a Rockport man retracing his grandfather’s path through WWI France and a new cat café in Peabody from an internet cafe in Bogotá.

Naturalist Sy Montgomery discusses the battle for your garage space -- Black vs Brown widow spiders; a new study confirming neuroscience research is lacking female mice; and a wiring map of an insect’s brain hinting at vast complexity.

We ended our show by going down the rabbit hole of electric cars. They seem great but does the difficulty of charging them turn people off? Listeners texted and called in to let us know.