What made The Short List this week?
- Complaints about excessive force by Springfield’s police, and how the department deals with those complaints, continues to grow.
- Ethel Rosenberg’s sons, after their parents’ execution for espionage, were adopted by a western Massachusetts family. Now they are making another push to have their mother exonerated and were just on CBS’s 60 minutes to discuss their effort.
- It’s no secret that Massachusetts is safe for Democrats in presidential years. But is that good for the state, which attracts zero attention during the general election?
Click the audio player above to hear New England Public Radio’s Susan Kaplan explore these issues with Ron Chimelis of the Springfield Republican and Mike Dobbs of the Reminder newspapers.
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