Eve Zuckoff

Boston's White Stadium rebuild will cost taxpayers $135M, nearly 3 times an earlier estimate The total $325 million project cost will be split between the city and Boston Legacy Football Club, a new professional women’s soccer team, which has agreed to put $190 million into the rebuild, as pa...

WHITE STADIUM COST: The city of Boston’s plan to rebuild White Stadium in Franklin Park will cost taxpayers $135 million, nearly three times as much as the city estimated for the project two years ago. Via @evezuckoff.bsky.social #mapoli www.wbur.org/news/2026/02...

Wu wants to focus on Boston this term. But Trump policies still loom In her first term, Wu was untested — all possibility and potential. Now, her constituents expect her to deliver major improvements, and she does too.

Good listen here on what residents, biz leaders and lawmakers are saying about Wu's 2nd-term challenges. She needs to deliver, while continuing to battle Trump @wbur.org @evezuckoff.bsky.social
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A pastor races a track coach for the Boston City Council's only open seat Said Ahmed and the Rev. Miniard Culpepper are both political newcomers battling to fill the seat of disgraced former councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson in District 7, an area that includes high povert...

In the Boston City Council district vacated by (now imprisoned) ex-councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson, a coach and a pastor vie for the seat serving Roxbury + slices of South End, Fenway and Dorchester @wbur.org @evezuckoff.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

Your guide to voting in the 2025 Boston general election Here are the key dates and details to vote in Boston's general election, including a little detail on the names you'll see listed on the ballot.

Boston voters - guide here for Nov. 4 - scroll down for info on the candidates for city council @wbur.org @evezuckoff.bsky.social @bertoscalese.bsky.social @lisacreamer.bsky.social
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Josh Kraft bows out of Boston race for mayor Josh Kraft has dropped out of the Boston mayor's race, two days after incumbent Michelle Wu trounced him in the city's preliminary election.

Josh Kraft has dropped out of the Boston mayoral race, two days after a trouncing in the preliminary by
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Wu dominates Boston preliminary election as she and Kraft move to November face off Mayor Michelle Wu and challenger Josh Kraft will go head to head on the November ballot for Boston mayor.

Nice 3-min listen here to catch you up on the scenes last night after @mayorwu.boston.gov won the preliminary v. @joshforboston.bsky.social
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Former U.S. Attorney Rollins weighs in with White Stadium opponents For Rachael Rollins, who has been largely out of the spotlight after resigning under pressure as U.S. Attorney, this was a second recent showing that appeared to back Josh Kraft for mayor.

Former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins is inching back out onto the political stage -- and seems to be in Josh Kraft's camp
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Hundreds of tenant activists rallied inside the State House today to support a bill that would bring rent control back in Mass. Rent control has been banned in the state since 1994 @wbur.org

Josh Kraft has yet to disclose his 2024 tax return — in fact, he's filing late In May, the Kraft campaign said it would release his tax returns “in the near future.” But now the campaign says the candidate had asked the IRS for a six-month filing extension.

Josh Kraft has yet to reveal his 2024 tax filing -- in fact he hasn't filed yet @evezuckoff.bsky.social @wbur.org www.wbur.org/news/2025/07...

If elected mayor, Kraft says he’d lean on philanthropy and improve community engagement Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and her lead challenger Josh Kraft both agree that federal funding cuts will hit the city hard. But Kraft, the former CEO of Boston Boys & Girls Clubs and son of the Patriots ...

And a conversation with Josh Kraft on what he'd do as mayor of Boston - conversation from the @wbur.org Festival - @tizianadearing.bsky.social @evezuckoff.bsky.social
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As Trump bears down on Boston, Mayor Wu says she'll keep the focus on city residents Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said "everything that the city represents is under attack" by the Trump administration and local communities are being harmed. As she runs for a second term, she said she's fo...

From @wbur.org festival coverage this weekend: A conversation with Mayor Wu @tizianadearing.bsky.social @evezuckoff.bsky.social
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Thank you, Allan!

…and to the hiring team that saw how ready I am now.

I intend to give this my all, to do it right — to be fair, diligent, and dogged from Day 1.

Find me on the air at 90.9 FM and on social, and reach me at ezuckoff@bu.edu (or DM for my cell). Tune in and let’s do this.

…almost 8 years ago. I worked on a podcast, a daily news show, and occasionally in the newsroom. Then I left to cut my teeth as a full-time reporter… all so that someday I could come back to the newsroom I've admired for so long. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who helped me get here…

…when it comes to the city — anything you’re worried or excited about — I want to hear it. Reach out to me. Tell your friends to call. Tell your boss to email. Tell your mom to text. Pass around my name and contact at will.

This is where I get to say: I started my career as an intern at WBUR…

But everything is on the table: from laws and taxes, to the city's economy and business community, to police and city services, to housing, real estate, and the rising cost of living.

So my next step is to talk with people in every corner of Greater Boston. Anything that you’re talking about…

OK, it’s time. I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be covering breaking news, general assignment and enterprise stories for WBUR, Boston’s NPR station. The work begins May 27.

A big part of my beat will be Boston City Hall — between now and November 4, I’ll be closely following the mayoral race.

Thank you, Suzanne!

If you’ve been part of this journey with me — as a WCAI supporter and listener, as someone I’ve interviewed, or just as someone who once watched a video or clicked on a story — thank you, and talk to you soon.  

—30 —

… of people and things I’m endlessly grateful for. All of my WCAI colleagues, family, and friends also belong on it. So while the next gig thrills me, if you’ve made it this far, you understand why today is, at the very least, bittersweet. 

So, my last note is to you:

I am nothing without the generosity of these people across the region. I thank them for their willingness to (re)explain big concepts, to go deeper, to spend 30 more minutes making sure I’ll accurately capture the little stuff just right.

This is the non-exhaustive list…

I’ve embedded with the military and traveled in an Army caravan. I’ve also embedded in a high school cosmetology class — which was much scarier.

Because of them, I’ve been able to watch one of the last North Atlantic right whales get moved to its final resting place. I’ve done interviews on sailboats, fishing boats, eroding bluffs, and expansive beaches. I’ve done interviews in hardhats and waders.

And then, of course, there are the hundreds — thousands? — of locals who’ve talked with me for stories since June 2019. Activists, architects, veterinarians, veterans, regulators, fishermen, plumbers, migrants, toddlers, teachers, scientists, and “old ladies” have given me their time — a lot of it.

… and nurtured all of my best. He’s defended, pushed, and championed my work since the beginning. He is Simon AND Garfunkel, and I am just trying to keep up.

Steve, specifically, as my patient and brilliant editor at WCAI, has made me a better writer and person: he’s given structure to impossible-to-structure features, refined my ear to catch the little bits of tape that make a story sing, protected all of you from my worst ideas…

Report for America offered me the opportunity to learn and grow … so I gave it my all. And with RFA’s backing, Steve Junker, Mindy Todd, and Heather Goldstone took a chance on me. I’ll be grateful for it – and to them -- for as long as I live.

Six years ago, I moved to Woods Hole as a not-yet-23-year-old journalist with only a vague idea how to be a beat reporter — let alone how to cover climate change on a sandy stretch of land that sticks out 65 miles into the Atlantic Ocean. It was just the right time.

I’m very excited about the next chapter and will be able to share details about where I’m going next Friday, May 9.  It’s a big change, one I’m hungry for, and I hope all of you will come along for the ride. 

Until then … can I just say that I’m really sad?

Big professional news: 

After just under six years, next week will be my last at @wcai-npr.bsky.social
WCAI. What follows is a series of thank yous and reflections, and a love letter to the Cape, Coast, and Islands listening community.