NightSide News Update 9/25/25

We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about!The disappearance of Christopher Bird…disappeared on Sunday, July 29, 1984. He was last seen by a friend at the D&Q Stables in Windham. Guest: Emily Sweeney – Boston Globe Cold Case Files Reporter & Blotter Tales columnist Mass General Brigham will soon bill you when your doctor consults a specialist about your care. Guest: Jonathan Saltzman – Boston Globe reporter Gov. Maura Healey releases ‘vision’ for statewide high school graduation requirements Guest: Chris Van Buskirk – State House Reporter for the Boston Herald What is the disorder PANDAS or PANS? 33,000 (or one in 200) children in Massachusetts suffer today from what is now known as Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus (P.A.N.D.A.S.) or Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (P.A.N.S). -Upcoming Walk – Making Strikes for PANS & PANDAS. Saturday, Oct. 4 – Boston Common. Guest: Jennifer Vitelli – Executive Director of the Look Foundation – also her son has PANDASSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.