For the final time…good Friday morning from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. Yes it’s true, after four years hosting Morning Edition on GBH Radio and hanging out with a group of crazy early risers for “The Best Ten Minutes in Radio”, Joe Mathieu is moving on in his broadcasting career and wrapping things up at GBH after today. We remem…

Good morning, and welcome to Thursday from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Early Edition team. We’re waking up with a little rain, but a lot less than the Red Sox dealt with last night at Fenway… where a three hour rain delay is always fun. The Bruins know who they’ll face in the next round of the playoffs, and New Yorkers may want to be careful what they …

Good morning and welcome to Wednesday from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We hope you’re able to catch the “super blood moon” early this morning, but unfortunately the folks on the west coast will have the better viewing options. Many of our regular listeners are still trying to process yesterday’s announcement from Joe, but we’ve st…

Good morning and welcome to Tuesday from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We woke up with a beautiful moon out, and it slid nicely into a picturesque sunrise just after 5AM… these are the joys you too can experience when you wake up with Early Edition. We discuss today’s amazing forecast, a tough task for the Celtics tonight and whethe…

Good Monday morning, thanks for starting your work week with Joe Mathieu and GBH’s Morning Edition. If you couldn’t stay up last night, you missed out on watching the Boston Bruins advance to round two of the Stanley Cup playoffs… and they did it with style in a 3 to 1 victory. The numbers are so good right now in MA for Covid that you can now walk…

Good Friday morning and thank you for waking up with Joe Mathieu and GBH’s Morning Edition team. Get yourself ready for summer-like temperatures this weekend… fire up those grills, open up those pools and reserve a spot in the sun. So when was your last handshake? With many businesses and establishments (including houses of worship) set to open up …

Good morning and welcome to Thursday, aka Little Friday, a term coined by Joe Mathieu and the GBH Early Edition team. Even with mask use about to be reduced dramatically, we’re happy for the allergy sufferers out there for the new found acceptance of face coverings, because apparently it’s been helping with seasonal allergies this Spring. We woke u…

Good morning and welcome to Wednesday from Joe Mathieu and our now smaller GBH Morning Edition team. Team is a loose term these days as we are down to two full time co-hosts with Shelby moving on to bigger and better things. But fear not, before too long we will be adding new cast members because this is definitely more than just a two person opera…

Good morning and welcome to Tuesday from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We are welcoming back an Early Edition graduate this morning, but the happiness of that reunion is short lived, as today we announce the graduation of yet another Early Edition mainstay… Godspeed Shelby, you will absolutely be missed around these parts. We also d…

Good morning, thanks for waking up with Joe Mathieu and GBH’s Morning Edition. A few technical issues plagued our broadcast this morning, but the show must go on and we’ll get your Monday underway with the latest news you need to start fresh and get your week going. That of course includes the first day of school… in May… for many area high school …

Good morning and thank you for starting your Friday with Joe Mathieu and GBH’s Early Edition. The entire Morning Edition crew is up and excited for the change in CDC policy that will soon allow those of us who have been vaccinated to walk around (in most cases) without a mask. However this easing of mask policy is entirely contingent on receiving y…

Good morning and welcome to “Little Friday” as Joe Mathieu likes to call it… thanks for starting your day with GBH’s Morning Edition. The 2021 New England Patriots schedule was released late yesterday, and there are several notable games including the return of Tom Brady to Foxboro, in what promises to be a memorable reunion. Meanwhile the doors ar…

Good morning welcome to the middle of the work week from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. Pretty important news here in the Bay State yesterday as ZERO deaths from Covid-19 were reported for the first time since June of 2020. We have also reached 3 million fully vaccinated citizens and continue to lead the country in many of those stat…

Good Tuesday morning, thanks for starting your day with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. Karen is out today, feeling the effects of her second vaccine shot, so Joe holds it down with the rest of the staff (including longtime team member Baby Yoda). We’ll catch you up on all the news you need to start your day, including who the Bruins …

Good morning, welcome to the work week from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We hope you treated the Mother’s in your lives well yesterday… at very least we hope Mom got a call from you, but hopefully a lot more than that. Some call this “Mother’s Monday”, so there’s still time to let Mom know you love her - hopefully she takes your ca…

Good morning and thanks for closing out your work week with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We’re headed into Mother’s Day weekend and with more and more people getting vaccinated, it seems the celebrations, get-togethers and festivities are finally back on. Be sure to do something special for Mama this weekend, or at very least, pick…

Good morning, welcome to Thursday from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Radio Morning Edition team. Mother’s Day weekend is almost here, we remind you to take care of your Mom in your own special way… if that’s a Minecraft video game house, so be it (details within). We’ve got the news you need to start your day, including a Peloton recall, a change for vac…

Good morning the midway point of the week has arrived, thanks for tuning in to Early Edition and GBH Radio. We’re caught in a wet cycle here for a few days, but your lawn and gardens definitely appreciate this Spring rain. As society begins to return to normal, we've seen some industries that have learned to adjust… in the case of one restaurant, g…

Good morning, welcome to Tuesday from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We start this morning with a lot of wet weather - leave yourself some extra time if you need to be somewhere this morning, because it is not pleasant on the roads. It is however the fourth of May, also known as Star Wars day, so “May the Fourth Be With You” if you’r…

Good morning, welcome back to the work world from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. A couple more members of the program have received their second vaccine doses and are now just days away from being able to see friends and loved ones (who have also had their shots) with a few less restrictions. As vaccine saturation begins to take plac…

Good Friday morning, thanks for starting the end of your week with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. Much to the chagrin of some of our Facebook Live fans, we start with sports today as the Patriots selected the guy they coveted, Alabama Quarterback Mac Jones in the first round of the NFL Draft last night. Governor Baker detailed some o…

Good morning, thanks for starting your Thursday with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. President Biden held his first address in front of a joint session of Congress last night and it began with a moment of historic significance. Vaccination locations across the state are starting to see lower demand, leading to some walk-in availabilit…

Good morning, you made it to “hump day” and its all downhill from here… thanks for starting your Wednesday with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. Governor Baker rolled out some new guidelines yesterday for the continued re-opening of Massachusetts, and come Friday, assuming you can properly social distance, you and yours can finally go …

Good Tuesday morning, thanks for starting your day with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. A rare moon took over the sky last night, we hope you got the chance to take it all in. After many predictions of a stock market crash if Joe Biden won the election, the reality is Biden’s first 100 days saw the largest period of growth for the ind…

Good Monday morning, thanks for waking up with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition crew. If you’re up early with us, that probably means you didn’t stay up to catch the Academy Awards last night… but fear not Oscars fans, we’ve got you covered with a Monday morning recap. Plus the latest Covid numbers are in for Massachusetts, and it certainly …

Good morning from GBH Radio and the GBH Newsroom, thanks for starting your Friday with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. It’s a Friday kind of feeling around here, we’ll catch you up on the latest news to start your day including the Space-X launch this morning and some encouraging vaccination numbers for the Bay State. Plus a classic m…

Good morning and welcome to Thursday aka “Little Friday”. Thanks for starting your day with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. You can pretend its over, but it appears we just can’t kill off the winter this year. After temps were in the 70’s the past few days, we wake up to temps near freezing this morning, with a wind chill that will bi…

Good Morning, thanks for starting your Wednesday with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. Big news and a nationwide sense of relief late yesterday as the verdict in the Chauvin trial was read… we’ll update you on the latest and focus on some the local angles. Another good night for the local teams that were in action, plus a tough day on …

Good morning, thanks for starting your Tuesday with GBH Radio’s Morning Edition. Joe Mathieu begins our Early Edition experience this morning making all the standard 4/20 references… fitting that yesterday Congress took one step closer to national legalization… it’s a good day to be legal and compliant with the laws of the land. Plus the Red Sox ha…

Good Monday morning and welcome back to work from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. For a second straight Patriot’s Day some Boston traditions are on hold… today would normally begin with a Revolutionary Reenactment on Lexington and Concord, and continue with the Boston Marathon, but alas those plans are once again postponed for the pan…

Good Friday morning, welcome to the threshold of the weekend from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. If you’re north or west of Boston, you may have woken up with some snow falling - not much is sticking, and it will be gone in a flash, but it could make for a challenging commute. B’s and C’s both got wins last night, but the Sox finally…

Good Thursday morning, thanks for starting your day with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. On the heels of some amazing weather yesterday, we’re hunkering down for some Spring showers over the next few days, but at least our lawns and Spring gardens will appreciate it. And if you’re among the many that live beyond Metrowest, you might e…

Good morning, welcome to Wednesday from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition crew. Spotty weather is confusing us today as some saw rain out there, some saw none at all, but our Facebook family reports scattered showers throughout the area this morning. Crypto-currency is the wave of the future, but we still have trouble understanding it. The gr…

Good Morning, welcome to Tuesday from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We’ve assembled our pre-sunrise squad and are ready to help you face the day by starting you off with all the latest news. A legendary New England Patriot is hanging up his cleats, we have details plus some memories of his career. More and more Massachusetts residen…

Good morning, welcome to Monday and welcome back to work from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. Breaking news here on Early Edition: all four people on the program this morning have received at least their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination, and one of us got the J&J dose and has wrapped up her shot taking for awhile. Pretty amazing d…

Good Friday morning, we made it through the work week - for GBH’s Joe Mathieu that work week happened to be only two days long, but we’re not jealous or anything. Now that Brendan has moved over to the night shift, our Facebook friends are trying to come up with a replacement nickname for our remaining crew, but “The Three Stooges” isn’t quite the …

Good morning, we made it to Thursday, aka “Little Friday”, and your weekend is right around the corner. Thanks for waking up with GBH’s Early Edition… featuring the return of Joe Mathieu. Joe is back after a few days away and is happy to see the entire crew. We catch up with each other and catch you up on this morning’s latest news. Plus Joe makes …

Good morning, welcome to the midway point of your work week from GBH News and our GBH Radio Morning Edition team. One more morning in the big chair for Henry Santoro… we thank Henry for filling in as Joe Mathieu returns tomorrow morning. We take you through this morning’s news and sports and get you ready for your day - including a drastic new look…

Good morning, thanks for beginning your Tuesday with GBH and Morning Edition. Joe Mathieu is out a couple more mornings before he returns on Thursday, so Henry Santoro is back in the building to host for the next few days. We had a major upset in sports last night… no, its not that the Red Sox actually won… the Baylor Bears upset Gonzaga in the NCA…

Good Monday morning, welcome back to work from the GBH Morning Edition team. Joe Mathieu is out for a few well earned days off, so the great Henry Santoro is with us for just a couple days until Joe returns. Henry catches us up on all the happenings from this past weekend, including the worst possible start to the season for our Boston Red Sox. Plu…

Good Friday morning, thanks for starting it with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. Yesterday was a washout at Fenway… after promoting opening day for the Red Sox all morning, mother nature fooled us all. Right before the end of yesterday’s Morning Edition the game was called off. So they’ll try and get the unofficial start of summer goi…

Good morning and welcome to Thursday from Joe Mathieu and GBH Radio’s Morning Edition crew. It’s opening day down at Fenway Park, which usually serves as an indicator that Spring is in full swing and Summer is right around the corner… but you might want to hold your horses after reading today’s forecast. It may be opening day, but rain and falling …

Good morning and welcome to Wednesday from Joe Mathieu and the ENTIRE Morning Edition crew. We say ENTIRE because we’re happy to welcome back our team-leader Karen from some much deserved off-time. We’re also pleased to welcome back our Facebook Live family after missing them for a few days. Karen apparently has a direct line to Mark Zuckerberg and…

Good morning, thanks for starting your Tuesday with Joe Mathieu, the Morning Edition team and GBH Radio. Well, we had high hopes that our social media streaming struggles would end this morning, alas, they continue on. Bear with us Facebook fans, we’ll get their new streaming system sorted out soon. Covid numbers across the country are spiking agai…

Good Monday morning and welcome back to the working world from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We’re still missing Karen, who will return later this week, and we’re missing our Facebook Live friends as well… hopefully they’ll return this week as well (thank you for bearing with us while we sort it out). It looks like the international…

It’s almost the weekend - thanks for getting it started with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. COVID numbers are spiking here and in other states, and we try and understand why amidst an increasingly vaccinated population. Meanwhile our New Hampshire division reports on the Granite State opening up vaccine availability to all adults. Th…

Good morning, thanks for kicking off your day with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We’re still down one of our core members for another week, but our early morning conversations shall continue regardless. The nighttime/early morning weather finally feels like Spring, the Suez Canal is somehow blocked off, and the Boston Garden will be…

Good morning, we made it to the midway point of the week, thanks for starting it with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. Marty Walsh is officially now 11th in line for the US Presidency. Walsh was sworn in as labor secretary by Vice-President Kamala Harris. Here in Boston, acting Mayor Kim Janney will be officially sworn in today. Some o…

Good morning, thanks for starting your Tuesday with Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We’re down a few people this morning, but we shall carry on and get this Tuesday started in our usual way. Sunset tonight will be at 7PM, the first time this year it crosses the 7 o’clock threshold - great for regular folks, not so great for nocturnal …

Good morning and Happy Monday from Joe Mathieu and the GBH Morning Edition team. We’re back at it for the work week but we are down one as Karen will be out for the week. We’re basking in the glow of yesterday’s weather and regaling each other with tales of all the things we did outdoors. The fun doesn’t stop for most of this week as temperatures r…