What made The Short List this week?

• A drug and alcohol rehab center that was in downtown Springfield but got booted by the casino, then rejected by opponents in Springfield’s north end, now hopes to occupy a former nursing home on Mill Street.
• The New Hampshire primary is on Tuesday. Western New England typically votes for liberals. And Bernie Sanders has been well received at his events here.
• We’re heading into Superbowl Sunday. Without the Patriots will you watch ? And how excited do you think the NFL is that the Patriots aren’t in it — after a year of defaltegate legal and PR battles?

 

 

Click the audio player above to hear New England Public Radio’s Susan Kaplan explore these issues with Rick Hurst Publisher of African American Point of View and Matt Szafranski, editor of Western Mass Politics and Insight Blog.