This week on Talk of the Neighborhoods, Boston Herald political columnist Joe Battenfeld joins us to talk about Mayor Wu and the challenges she faces in her second term in office; the re-election campaign of Governor Healey and the uphill battle her two Republican opponents face; and, how national politics is having an impact on state and local races. Then on the second half of the show at 6:30 p.m., veteran Democratic political strategist Scott Ferson, president of the Liberty Square Group in Cambridge and founder of the Blue Lab, joins me to talk about his new book: How the Democrats Lost America: Making Sense of the 2024 Election and the Future of American Politics, and the party's prospects in the 2026 mid-term's, and the presidential election in 2028.