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WBUR TODAY: 🚍 Boston's slowest buses

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  ❤️ Donate Wednesday, September 16, 2026 ☀️ Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Good Morning Boston, The annual road race against the Green Line is this Friday. But if you're looking for an easier opponent, we have a few bus routes to suggest: Move over, Emmys: It's time for the "Pokey-Schleppie Awards." Granted, these awards are not as prestigious — or desirable. The public transit advocacy group Transit Matters released its third annual list of Pokey-Schleppie winners yesterday, recognizing the slowest and most "bunched" MBTA bus routes of the year. Here's a look at the "winners," so to speak: And the Pokey goes to: The Silver Line's SL4 route . Transit Matters found the SL4 between South Station and Nubian Square in Roxbury was the system's slowest, averaging a speed of 6.1 mph. (If you ran a 5k road race at that pace, it'd take just over 30 minutes.) "That's largely due to so much traffic in Downtown and Chinatown, a...
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BREAKING TONIGHT: Kash Patel, Epstein & the Russian Connection

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    Watch now   BREAKING TONIGHT: Kash Patel, Epstein & the Russian Connection A recording from Lev Parnas and Zev Shalev's live video Lev Parnas , Zev Shalev , and Ellie Leonard Sep 15 ∙ Preview   Join me with Zev Shalev and Ellie Leonard as we dig into the breaking stories unfolding right now — Kash Patel’s testimony before Congress, the latest developments surrounding the Epstein files, and what we’re learning behind the scenes about the Russian billionaire connected to Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding. There’s a lot more to these stories than the hea… A subscription gets you: 💥 Early intel before the media catches on 🎙️ Live Q&As and behind-the-scenes drops ✅ Unfiltered stories from inside Trump’s circle
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Morning Digest, sponsored by Oath: Why the Indiana GOP is sweating the race for secretary of state

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  Thank you for being a paid subscriber to The Downballot. You’re the reason we’re able to keep publishing top-notch election analysis every weekday. Morning Digest, sponsored by Oath: Why the Indiana GOP is sweating the race for secretary of state And why Democrats may achieve their long-awaited breakthrough David Nir and Jeff Singer Sep 16 (Credit: Indiana Republican Party ad) Leading Off IN-SoS Indiana Republicans are taking aim at former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, an ex-Republican running for secretary of state as a third-party candidate—an offensive that suggests Ballard’s former compatriots believe he could disproportionately hurt them in a closely watched four-person contest. “As mayor, liberal Greg Ballard failed Indianapolis,” the narrator says in a new spot the Indiana Republican Party began running on Friday. “Ballard raised taxes and fees over 140 times, and left Indianapolis with hundreds of millions in debt. Under Ballard, it became one of the most dangerous ...
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