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Rent Control Support Surges, Red Sox Trade, Medicare Cuts · Sunny Mornings Boston

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  Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
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  and it's Wednesday, November 26. You'll be interested
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  to know. Today is National Cake Day. This sweet
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  holiday celebrates the joy of cake, from classic
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  chocolate to fancy layered creations, bringing
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  friends and family together. Fake one, share
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  a slice or order a specialty creation today is
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  the perfect excuse to indulge and celebrate with
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  a smile. So let's party and enjoy. So now you
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  know. And now it's time for the weather report.
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  This morning there's patchy fog and it feels
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  like 56 degrees with six mile per hour wind.
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  The sunset will take place at 413. and it will
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  rise again tomorrow at 649. It looks like we're
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  in for some patchy fog this morning, giving way
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  to mostly cloudy skies, with a high near 61 and
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  a light south wind around 7. Tonight, there's
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  a slight chance of rain later, mostly cloudy
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  with a low around 40 and a southwest wind with
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  gusts up to 21. For all you beach runners out
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  there, the first low tide Wednesday will be at
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  9, with a high tide at 3. The near shore buoy
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  at Cape Cod Bay reads 49 degrees for the water
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  temperature. Looking ahead in the weather. Thanksgiving
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  Day will be mostly sunny with a high near 47,
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  and west winds around 10 to 14 miles per hour,
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  gusting as high as 28. A chilly night follows
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  with lows near 32 and gusty southwest winds.
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  Then Friday stays mostly sunny near 42, with
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  west winds gusting into the low 30s before dipping
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  to around 29 Friday night. Saturday is sunny
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  near 40 with lighter winds, while Sunday turns
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  mostly cloudy with a chance of rain after 11am
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  and highs near 50, with rain likely Sunday night
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  near 39. Bonjour, food enthusiasts. This podcast
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  They are open every day from 8 to 5. So stop
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  on by and don't forget to tell them. Sunny mornings
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  send you. In local news, House Speaker Ron Mariano
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  highlighted a significant shift in voter sentiment
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  regarding rent control as a recent Suffolk University
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  Boston Globe poll. revealed that 62 .6 % of Massachusetts
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  residents now support a ballot question to cap
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  annual rent increases at 5%. In contrast, nearly
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  31 % opposed the measure, while the remainder
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  were undecided. Homes for All Massachusetts recently
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  announced they collected more than 124 ,000 raw
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  signatures, surpassing the 74 ,574 needed for
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  the 2026 ballot. Poll results also indicated
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  strong support for proposals addressing legislative
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  stipends, public records law, and voting reforms,
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  reflecting the concerns of Massachusetts residents
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  about housing affordability and the economy.
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  Now on to sports. The college football playoff
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  rankings have clarified the implications ahead
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  of week 14 clashes. Ohio State remains at number
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  one ahead of its game against Michigan. Texas
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  A &M holds the third spot, while Georgia and
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  Texas Tech follow. Oregon has moved to six, facing
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  a challenge at Washington. Mississippi has dropped
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  to seventh, and Oklahoma is eighth. Brigham Young,
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  Miami, Utah, Vanderbilt, and Michigan are outside
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  the top ten, but still in contention. Tulane
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  remains at 24th and could compete for the Group
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  of Five automatic bid. The next ranking will
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  be released on December 2nd. In local sports,
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  the Boston Red Sox are acquiring veteran right
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  -hander Sonny Gray. In a trade with the St. Louis
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  Cardinals, sources confirm to ESPN on Tuesday.
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  Bray, who's 36? had a record of 14 wins and 8
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  losses with an earned run average of 4 .28 last
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  season. In return, St. Louis receives left -handed
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  prospect Brandon Clark and right -hander Richard
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  Fitz, along with cash considerations. Clark,
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  22 years old, has a fastball that can reach 100
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  miles per hour, while Fitz had a record of 2
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  wins and 4 losses with an earned run average
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  of 5. In top news, the Centers for Medicare and
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  Medicaid Services announced lower prices on 15
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  costly prescription drugs under Medicare, including
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  Ozempic and Wegovi. These price cuts result from
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  the Medicare drug price negotiation program established
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  by the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law
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  by President Joe Biden in 2022. This is different
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  from President Donald Trump's most favored nation
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  approach, which relied on executive orders. The
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  negotiated prices will save taxpayers $12 billion
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  and are expected to save Medicare enrollees $685
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  million in out -of -pocket costs by 2027. Many
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  Americans find prescription drugs unaffordable.
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  with surveys showing significant numbers have
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  skipped or altered their medications due to cost.
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  In business news, home sellers are taking their
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  homes off the market at the fastest pace in nearly
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  a decade. Approximately 15 % of the homes that
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  were delisted in September were at risk of selling
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  at a loss, according to Redfin. Redfin found
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  that 70 % of homes listed in September were on
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  the market for 60 days or longer. Close to 85
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  ,000 United States sellers took their homes off
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  the market in September, up 28 % from September
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  2024. The housing market is now heading into
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  its slowest season, with home prices still 50
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  % higher than five years ago. In crypto movement,
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  Bitcoin is down 1 % to about $87 ,000. Ethereum
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  is unchanged at just over $2 ,900. And XRP is
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  down 3 % to $2 .17. Moving on to a more local
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  vibe. In our community spotlight on health and
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  wellness, we are working with a national Pilates
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  studio to bring you some free classes, so listen
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  up. Check out Club Pilates with several locations
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  in the Boston area. Pilates presents a comprehensive
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  wellness approach, cultivating strength, reducing
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  tension, and elevating mental well -being. Scientific
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  research affirms its benefits. So now you can
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  check out Club Pilates for a free class. With
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  locations in Canton, Wellesley, Hingham, Brookline,
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  and Framingham, just be sure to tell them...
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  Sunny morning sent you by. And now, back to the
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  show. Let's talk tech. Google's parent company,
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  Alphabet, is very close to becoming the fourth
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  company to join the $4 trillion market cap club.
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  Fellow tech giant Meta is considering supplying
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  some of its data centers with Google chips, according
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  to the information on Monday. The deal, potentially
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  worth billions of dollars, would start in 2027.
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  Google recently revealed its latest AI model,
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  Gemini 3, and updates to its image generator,
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  Nano Banana Pro. Many claim Gemini 3 is significantly
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  better than OpenAI's chat GPT. While NVIDIA remains
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  the leading AI chip supplier, Google's custom
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  tensor processing units are gaining traction.
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  Metta would significantly enhance Google's customer
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  list. And in entertainment news, Warner Music
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  Group has announced a deal with Suno, settling
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  its copyright lawsuit against the AI music startup.
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  The agreement ensures that artists and songwriters
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  will have full control over the use of their
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  names, images, likenesses, voices, and compositions
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  in new AI -generated music. Warner Music Group
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  also sold Songkick to Suno for an undisclosed
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  amount, with Songkick continuing as a fan destination.
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  Suno will launch more advanced models next year,
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  requiring a paid account for audio downloads.
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  Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kinkle stated that
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  this landmark pact benefits the entire creative
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  community. Suno recently raised $250 million
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  in funding. Well, alrighty folks, it's time for
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  the quote of the day. And today, our quote comes
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  from the American economist and social theorist
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  Thomas Sowell. And he said, And that's a wrap
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  for this morning. You can check out our Instagram,
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  YouTube, and TikTok. for some captivating aerial
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  videos with local news and the weather reports.
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  Have an amazing day, my good friends. We'll see
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  you tomorrow with another episode of Sunny Mornings
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  in Boston.