Published November 8, 2010

Monday at 3 p.m. on Radio Boston:

Downtown Crossing, stalled.The mayor of Boston is counting on downtown businesses to contribute to a fund that will help restore and modernize Downtown Crossing — you know, the area with the gaping hole in the middle. Many property owners now say they won’t contribute to this fund, even though they would benefit from the improvements. We talk to one business owner who declines to contribute and a representative of the Downtown Crossing Partnership.

Margaret Burnham, first black woman to serve in the Massachusetts judiciary. The former judge founded Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which investigates crimes committed during the civil rights era. Burnham and her students brought a landmark case against Franklin County, Miss., on behalf of two black teenagers killed by Klansmen.

Drug treatment in the aftermath of Ballot Question 1. Massachusetts voters rescinded the sales tax on alcohol last week. That revenue has been used, in part, for treatment programs. Now many providers wonder where the funds will come from. We talk to someone who runs a treatment clinic and a former client.

My conversation with Monica Gaudio, the blogger whose Cooks Source plagiarism post was heard ’round the worldwide Web.