NightSide with Dan Rea - Rundown for August 12, 2025

NightSide News Update. We kick off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about! For one of our segments this evening a local MA woman, who was attacked by a bat when it flew into her mouth while stargazing in Arizona, will join us to tell her story!

Governor Healey Faces Difficult Local Issues. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is currently facing two challenging local issues. The first being, in no particular order, the ongoing Republic Services trash collectors’ strike that is now heading towards its seventh week. Healey sent a letter to the leadership at Republic Services calling them out for not answering or returning her calls and went on to say, “Your company’s failure to resolve or even meaningfully address this prolonged strike is unacceptable.” The second pressing matter is the indictment of Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins. Some lawmakers are pushing Healey to remove him from his position, but she has yet to make a move, saying these are “serious” allegations in which she wants to know more. We discuss these pressing local issues.

Do Aliens Exist? A recently discovered interstellar object being likened to a comet by some scientists is on an “extremely unusual course” that will take it close to three different plants: Venus, Mars and Jupiter, says Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. Loeb believes the unidentified object is an alien craft saying, “The chance of a natural space rock randomly flying along that path is less than 0.005%.” Do you believe in alien life form? Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence says she believes aliens could “possibly be real.”

Avi Loeb will join us in our 8pm news hour sharing his thoughts, to which we will ask you your thoughts later in the show!

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