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WBUR TODAY: What Wu learned about building bike lanes

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  ❤️ Donate Tuesday, August 4, 2026 ☀️ Sunny, with a high near 85.  Good Morning Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu joined WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about what the city is doing to improve bike safety, after city transportation planner Louisa Gag was hit and killed by a truck while riding her bike last month. Moving forward: Gag's death left the cycling community shaken. But as WBUR’s Andrea Perdomo-Hernandez reports in this story , it has also galvanized advocates to push the city for more progress on street safety projects they say have stalled. Wu says she feels their pain. "I am furious still that we are grieving the loss of someone who, over the next several decades, was going to transform the city," Wu told WBUR's Tiziana Dearing. In the interview, Wu addressed the criticism of her administration's slowdown on bike lane projects and shared how they plan to move forward. Why did projects slow down?    Wu said her administration built more miles of protecte...
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Morning Digest: Ethics Committee recommends censure for GOP congressman over sexual harassment findings

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Morning Digest: Ethics Committee recommends censure for GOP congressman over sexual harassment findings North Carolina's Chuck Edwards was already facing a difficult path to reelection David Nir and Jeff Singer Aug 4 Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina. (Credit: Chuck Edwards Facebook.) Leading Off NC-11 The House Ethics Committee announced on Monday that there was “substantial reason to believe” that Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards, who faces a difficult bid for reelection, “violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces” and recommended that the full House censure him. CNN first reported that Edwards was under investigation for alleged sexual harassment at the end of April. Further details soon emerged , including a report from Axios that the congressman had sent a handwritten letter to a young woman on his staff saying she had “written a complex chapter in my heart that I will never stop reading.” The Ethics Committee confirmed those allega...
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