WCAI's award-winning public affairs program. Tuesday through Thursday, Mindy Todd hosts a lively and informative discussion on critical issues for Cape Cod, the Islands and the South Coast. Every Friday is the News Roundup, as CAI News Director Steve Junker speaks with news editors and reporters from around the region.
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The Weekly Bird Report with Mark Faherty can be heard every Wednesday on WCAI, the local NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast. Mark has been the Science Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary since August 2007 and has led birding trips for Mass Audubon since 2002. He is past president of the Cape Cod Bird Club and current member of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee.
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The Local Food Report can be heard every Thursday on WCAI, the local NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast. From farmers' markets to backyard gardens, wild forage to home kitchen recipes, the Local Food Report explores the Cape, Islands, and South Coast to find out what's in season and what to do with it.The Local Food Report airs Thursday at 8:35 AM and 5:45 PM and Saturday at 9:35 AM and is made possible by our Local Food Report sponsors.
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The Wharton Customer Analyticast, produced by the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, shares different opinions, observations, and speculations about the world of customer analytics.
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Bird news airs on Wednesdays at 8:35am, Thursday at 12:35pm and Fridays at 4:30pm.E. Vernon Laux is an author and ornithologist who's been birding the Cape and Islands for nearly 40 years. He's the resident naturalist and land manager for the Linda Loring Foundation on Nantucket.
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NEXT was a radio show and podcast that aired its final episode in May 2021 after a successful five-year run. The weekly program focused on New England, one of America's oldest places, at a time of change. NEXT was produced at Connecticut Public Radio and featured stories from journalists across the New England News Collaborative. Most recently, the program was hosted by Morgan Springer. With New England as our laboratory, NEXT asked questions about how we power our society, how we move aroun ...
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All the latest bird news with Mark FahertyVon Mindy Todd
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Debate: candidates for the Plymouth/Barnstable senate seat Dylan Fernandes and Mathew Muratore
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Our debate series continues, with candidates for the Plymouth/Barnstable Senate Seat Mathew Muratore and Dylan Fernandes.Von Mindy Todd
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The complex behaviors and mysteries of cephalopods.Von Mindy Todd
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As we turn another calendar page, we’re also turning a corner in the fall migration. I’ve always preferred October to September, mainly because we tend to get more birds later in the fall.Von Mark Faherty
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The power of music as therapy for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia
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The power of music as therapy for people with Alzheimer’s and dementiaVon Mindy Todd
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News Roundup: Community groups ally against radioactive water dump; machine gun range deadline looms
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This week: The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and the region's realtors association are among the petitioners asking the state to stop Holtec's discharge of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay. Also, with an end-of-month deadline looming, the heat is rising on a controversial proposed machine gun range. And, the Cape’s airport simulates a plane crash…
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Debate: 5th Barnstable District candidates Fletcher and Xiaros
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Our debate series continues, this hour between candidates for the 5th Barnstable District: Democrat Owen Fletcher and Republican Steven Xiarhos.Von Mindy Todd
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Books about automobiles
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Cars are the topic on our monthly Books Show.Von Amy Vince
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You may have noticed that it rained recently, for the first time in what seemed like years. In addition to a satisfying, multi-day soaking of our parched soils, this weather also brought the kind of winds that get the attention of storm bird chasers, that hardy and quirky subset of the already quirky subset of society that is birders.…
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Legislative candidate debate: David Vieira and Kathy Fox Alfano
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Legislative candidates David Vieira and Kathy Fox Alfano discuss issues of interest to residents of Cape Cod and the Islands.
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News Roundup: Mail-in ballots likely headed to court; SSA to get new General Manager
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This week: The Republican primary for the Plymouth and Barnstable state senate seat could be decided by a court case over mail-in ballots. The head of the Steamship Authority will step down after a summer of passenger frustration. And: it’s been the wrong kind of record-breaking year for dolphin strandings.…
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Brazilian community on Martha's Vineyard
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An interview about a reporting series on Brazilian immigration on Martha's Vineyard and how it’s transforming the Island, by The Martha’s Vineyard TimesVon Mindy Todd
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Education programs for the non native and tribal communities
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Learning from and about the People of the First Light, their history, cultural heritage and deep connection to this land.Von Mindy Todd
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Dreams and visions often bring hope and meaning at life's end.Von Mindy Todd
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When it comes to bird photography, experienced practitioners know that sometimes it’s best to shoot first and ask questions later. What I mean is, even expert birders don’t always know exactly what they’re looking at until they get home and look at the photos.Von Mark Faherty
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Our last gardening show of the seasonVon Mindy Todd
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News Roundup: Big wind contracts and an election recount
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This week: The biggest contracts ever for offshore wind power in New England have been announced — and they should bring jobs locally. A recount is underway in the Republican primary for a state senate seat. And an unusual gathering of scientific experts will study the Arm National Guard's proposed machine gun range for Joint Base Cape Cod.…
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Helen loved kvass. The flavor, the fizz, everything about this drink made from fermenting stale bread with water and sugar. But when she got home, she forgot about it for almost forty years.Von Elspeth Hay
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An interview with E. J. Dolan about his book Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious PiratesVon Mindy Todd
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This month's Bird news with Mark FahertyVon Mindy Todd
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News Roundup: Offshore wind bids to be chosen; primary day results
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This week: Clean energy advocates are poised to celebrate an announcement on a new 3-state partnership for offshore wind. Also, the state’s primary elections this week have set the field for November — unless you’re a candidate waiting on a recount. And one Outer Cape lifeguard has climbed the tall white chair for four decades; you can believe he’s…
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More than 300 species of birds have been recorded from Race Point, the second-highest list of anywhere on the Cape and Islands.Von Mark Faherty
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I have a friend in Barnstable who’s always telling me about unusual edible plants, particularly perennials. Recently, he told me he’s planting something new called a Cornelian Cherry.Von Elspeth Hay
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It’s not just back to school time for kids, all those billions of young birds that hatched over the spring and summer need to learn how to be birds, and it’s a real school of hard knocks.Von Mark Faherty
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To plant a fig tree in our climate is an act of faith. Most figs are native to the tropics—and in the heat and sweat of this world they do amazing things. They’ve co-evolved with a wasp that crawls into the fruit and pollinates it from the inside out.Von Elspeth Hay
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In all my years of camping and doing field work around the US I never knew that flying squirrels could be camp scavengers.Von Mark Faherty
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As a fisheries and aquaculture specialist at the Barnstable County Cooperative Extension, Abigail Archer spends a lot of time trying to help the public connect the dots between shellfish, nitrogen, and healthy estuaries. This relationship starts when nitrogen travels through freshwater streams and runoff into our marine environment.…
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The birds, being well-versed in Shakespeare, know that all the world’s a stage. Maybe not, but what they do know is that some of the world’s a staging area, and one of the most important staging areas is right here on the Cape and Islands.Von Mark Faherty
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In 2015, Jess Tsoukalas was living in Wellfleet at a rental property that the tenant before her had planted with an abundance of fruit trees.Von Elspeth Hay
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In case you haven’t heard, the Globetrotters are in town. Not the basketball ones, in case you thought of them first for some reason - I’m talking about the actual globe trotters, the Arctic-nesting shorebirds.Von Mark Faherty
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Carrie Richter of Peach Tree Circle Farm in Falmouth is a self-proclaimed garlic fanatic."It makes every dish better. There's nothing about garlic that I don't like."Von Elspeth Hay
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Let’s face it, insects suffer from a likeability deficit akin to that of most politicians, what with the biting and the disease transmission and the landing on your food right when you’re about to eat it and all. But I think we can all get behind butterflies, those harmless, even beneficial, and undeniably beautiful ambassadors for the insect world…
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This time of year at the farmers markets, lettuce is the variety queen. It comes in heads and leaves, reds and greens, crisp hearts and soft butter leaves. Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken to farmers about growing lettuce, and what varieties they like.Von Elspeth Hay
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About 20 years ago I was doing bird surveys for my graduate research all through the Cape Cod National Seashore – I had over 300 survey points from Fort Hill in Eastham to Wood End in Provincetown, and I knew the park, including deep, off-trail areas, as well as anyone.Von Mark Faherty
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It’s high season for a common wild berry with a whole lot of names.Von Elspeth Hay
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I’ve been hearing about the Herring River Restoration Project since I moved to Wellfleet in 2004. Restoring tidal flow to the 1100-acre saltwater estuary, which was diked in 1908, is an effort that’s been decades in the making — and hands-on work finally began in early 2023.Von Elspeth Hay
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On Monday, though it’s full-on tourist season and many of my local friends had been putting out “shelter in place” warnings on social media, I bravely ventured from the Lower Cape to deep in the heart of the Upper Cape.Von Mark Faherty
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Recently, Mass Audubon has turned its conservational gaze upon an inconspicuous and imperiled coastal resident. This saltmarsh sprite lives life on the edge, only nesting in the daily-flooded coastal marshes from southern Maine to Chesapeake Bay, where they struggle to complete their nesting cycle between the monthly high tides.…
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Have you ever been in a grocery store and seen items marked “WIC approved”? It stands for “women infants and children.” It’s a federally funded state run supplemental nutrition assistance program.Von Viki Merrick, Jake Applegate
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