Radio Boston Rundown: What The Caritas Sale Means For Us

Published November 9, 2010

Tuesday at 3 p.m. on Radio Boston:

The Caritas Christi sale. We examine the impact of the Catholic hospital going for-profit. What might it might mean for the delivery and the quality of health care? We talk with critics and supporters of the sale, which was finalized Monday.

Congressman Ed Markey. He is pushing for strict new screening measures of all cargo on passenger planes. He says new screening rules, announced Monday, are constructive but don’t go far enough. Markey plans to introduce legislation that would expand the mandate to include cargo flights.

Battle of the lawyers. A competition last week pitted high-profile attorneys against one another. Each lawyer presented closing arguments to a group of judges in Boston. The winner was Tom Greene, who took on Pfizer Pharmaceuticals for illegally promoting an epilepsy drug for off-label uses. We hear highlights of the competition.

A voodoo ceremony in Mattapan. We speak to reporter Calvin Hennick, who observed the overnight rituals of the Haitian Day of the Dead that took place this weekend.