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  ❤️ Donate Wednesday, August 5, 2026 ☀️ Mostly sunny, with a high of 89. Good Morning Boston, It's Wednesday. Bluebikes is offering a $15 credit for National Wellness Month this week — and those free rides could soon come in handy (just enter BCBSMAWELLNESS in the rewards section of their app): HE ISN'T CALLED SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE FOR NO REASON! Back on track: We just got over a brutal 10-day partial shutdown on the Red Line . And yet, the start of a massive, nine-day Green Line closure is staring us down this Saturday. And that's followed shortly after by an 11-day suspension of half the Orange Line to close out August. What is this, 2024 all over again?   Not so, says Phil Eng. WBUR's Tiziana Dearing spoke to the MBTA general manager (and yes, also still-interim transportation secretary) about why so much of the T has been out of service lately. Why are these still happening? Eng says it's about "efficiency." During the 2024 track repair campaign...

  ❤️  Donate Monday, June 1, 2026 ☁️  Mostly cloudy, with a high of 60. Good Morning Boston, By now, you probably know the sonic boom heard 'round the region on Saturday was, in fact,  a meteor exploding in our atmosphere . According to the American Meteor Society, it was only three feet wide. But it managed to make such a commotion because when a meteor "encounters all this air, this friction, and that heats it up and it vaporizes it as it enters through the atmosphere... it basically can't stand the stress and it explodes," Richard Binzel, a planetary science professor at MIT, explained to WBUR's Paul Connearney. Now, let's get to more news making noise this week. What's in the water?   Massachusetts has been testing residents' wastewater for COVID-19 for years. But starting today, whatever you flush down the toilet will be tested for seven additional viruses, including influenza and RSV. The updated surveillance comes as Massachusetts prepares for a...