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The Codcast

Tune into spirited debate, local stories, and insightful analyses. Hosted each week by a CommonWealth Beacon reporter, the half-hour policy podcast delves into the heart of Massachusetts’s most pressing and intriguing topics. Hear newsmakers, historians, and policy experts tackle statewide housing struggles, immigration policies, little-known histories, surprising political fights, and even take to the sea to visit rising offshore wind turbines.

Episodes

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Unpacking the governor’s state budget proposal (with Viviana Abreu-Hernández and Jim Stergios)

02 Feb 2026
38m
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'It may get worse before it gets better' - Breaking down the 2026 State of the Commonwealth

26 Jan 2026
28m
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Filling the health care funding gaps (with Audrey Morse Gasteier and Alex Sheff)

19 Jan 2026
34m
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What do cities and advocates want from the Legislature in 2026?

12 Jan 2026
32m
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The 2025 CommonWealth Beacon reporter roundtable

05 Jan 2026
35m
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‘The exits are growing, the entries are slowing’ in primary care (with Zurui Song)

29 Dec 2025
38m
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Beyond the MCAS with Ed. Secretary Tutwiler

22 Dec 2025
33m
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The political and the personal of who learns classical music (ft. Élider DiPaula)

15 Dec 2025
30m
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Showdown over Boston tax rates, ft Greg Maynard

08 Dec 2025
34m
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The Legislature breaks for the holidays and ballot questions heat up

01 Dec 2025
31m
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Restoring civic discourse in an age of polarization (with Jim Peyser)

24 Nov 2025
35m
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When medical access is a legal puzzle (ft. Matt Selig)

17 Nov 2025
35m
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Municipal budgets at the breaking point (with Adam Chapdelaine, Mayor Kassandra Gove, and Paul Craney)

10 Nov 2025
32m
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A year after Steward closures, lost trust and betrayal

03 Nov 2025
31m
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The government shutdown's effects on the Mass. Health Connector (with Audrey Gasteier)

27 Oct 2025
34m
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Who you gonna call? (with Salem Mayor, Dominick Pangallo)

20 Oct 2025
30m
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Could the shutdown push Mass. toward recession? (with Mark Williams)

13 Oct 2025
24m
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Health care challenges in the Berkshires (with Michael Leary)

06 Oct 2025
30m
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A Super PAC longshot (with Prof. Larry Lessig)

29 Sep 2025
36m
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What health care workers are feeling on the ground

22 Sep 2025
27m
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