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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News Roundup: Turbine blade failure could be manufacturing defect; from VPTOWN to presidential candidate
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This week: That failed Vineyard Wind turbine blade? Looks a manufacturing defect could be to blame. Meanwhile, the Army National Guard is seeking construction bids for its controversial Cape Cod machine gun range. And the VP comes to Ptown – 12 hours before she (surprise!) starts running for president.…
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Elder abuse: how to recognize and prevent it.By Mindy Todd
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Bibbs, Bostons, and Caesers: Local farmers talk about growing great lettuce
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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.By Elspeth Hay
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Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science Life
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An interview with NPR Science reporter Nell Greenfieldboyce about her book Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science LifeBy Mindy Todd
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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.By Mark Faherty
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Provincetown Jazz Festival's 20th summer!By Mindy Todd
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Martha's Vineyard's Black homeowners: a history
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A history of Black homeowners and community on Martha's Vineyard.By Mindy Todd
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News Roundup: Turbine blade falls and Nantucket feels the pain; $1B bridge funding; Holtec denied water discharge permit
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This week: A blade comes off a Vineyard Wind turbine scattering debris onto Nantucket beaches. The Cape gets $1 billion for replacing the Sagamore Bridge. And the state says no to Holtec dumping radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay.By Steve Junker
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Interviews with two filmmakers, and this year’s lineup.By Mindy Todd
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Tthe past, present and future of Cape Cinema.By Mindy Todd
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A common wild berry brings a range of delicious flavors
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It’s high season for a common wild berry with a whole lot of names.By Elspeth Hay
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Some helpful insights on hoarding, from our panel of mental health experts.By Mindy Todd
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The flamingo is back. A beautiful stranger returns to Cape Cod
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By Mark Faherty
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The Point's monthly gardening show with horticulturist Roberta Clark.By Mindy Todd
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Stories of love, longing, and New England history
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An interview with Ben ShattuckBy Mindy Todd
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News Roundup: DA charges 12 in human trafficking; Codfather turns to real estate
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This week: The Cape and Islands DA is pushing a campaign to fight human trafficking. Kamala Harris is coming to Provincetown for a fundraiser, with a lot of eyes on her and questions about President Biden. And New Bedford's Codfather, Carlos Rafael, is now in the real estate business.By Steve Junker
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Saltwater fish return to Wellfleet’s Herring River floodplain
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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.By Elspeth Hay
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Osterville Village Library and Centerville Historical Collection
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Continuing CAI's series of visits to area libraries, in Osterville / CentervilleBy Steve Junker, Mindy Todd
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A special grassland habitat right here on Cape Cod
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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.By Mark Faherty
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The monthly bird news with Mark Faherty.By Mindy Todd
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The late great Louis Armstrong's connection to Cape Cod, and Harwich resident Jack Bradley.
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"Rising Tide of Solutions Based Climate Reporting", a production of NHPRBy CAI
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A coastal sparrow that is trying to beat the odds
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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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WIC program is helping more Martha's Vineyard families thanks to grant
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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.By Viki Merrick, Jake Applegate
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A fly-by-night flycatcher and more kite sights
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While kite-o-rama continues on the Cape, with both kite species still turning up from Mashpee to Harwich, the Vineyard scored this week with an even less likely bird with a long, bifurcated tail.By Mark Faherty
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Tuning into plant flowers to manage fruit and vegetable productivity
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Over the past few years, I’ve started noticing how much I can control certain plants’ productivity by managing their flowers and seeds.By Elspeth Hay
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Swallow-tailed kites are getting comfortable on Cape Cod
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Mid-June is kind of like the slack tide in the Cape ornithological calendar. Songbird and shorebird migration are over, with most birds now busy breeding across the Northern Hemisphere.By Mark Faherty
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A New Jersey forager visits Falmouth to give a talk on the magic of weeds.By Elspeth Hay
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We have a backlog of old business to attend to here at Bird Report central, namely, what’s going on with breeding birds right now? The answer is, they are battling for their lives and the lives of their children in this war zone we call the suburbs.By Mark Faherty
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Exciting new vegetables for your summer garden
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It’s that time of year where many of us are getting summer seedlings in the ground. And I don’t know about you, but my excitement is usually bigger than my garden — I can’t fit everything I want to plant.By Elspeth Hay
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Big, pink, and lost—a flamingo visits Cape Cod
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What’s lanky and lost and pink all over? It’s the American Flamingo that spent Sunday afternoon at Chapin Beach in Dennis. Only a lucky few got to see it, but this real, actual flamingo was indeed there. But how did it get there, and where did it come from?By Mark Faherty
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One Mississippi, two Mississippis: Keep your eyes open for birds overhead
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It finally happened, for me anyway, on Friday morning. By “it,” I mean some clear evidence of newly arrived migrants of a number worthy of mid-to-late May.By Mark Faherty
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Most cooks have heard of broccoli rabe. But what about other rabe varieties? This week on The Local Food Report, Elspeth Hay talks with growers at the Orleans Farmers' Market about this spring delicacy from the Brassica family.By Elspeth Hay
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Spring migrants, and the ones we’re still waiting for
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We’re entering the home stretch of spring migration, but, here on the Cape, it still feels like a sputtering engine that can’t quite turn over.By Mark Faherty
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Bird-a-thon birds and migration ready to explode
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Last week I predicted our first real migrant songbird fallout of May on Thursday morning. Sadly, that did not materialize, probably because of too much rain between us and the birds that night, stopping them short of New England.By Mark Faherty
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This week, the joys of keeping indoor-outdoor food plants.By Elspeth Hay
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When did your “spring is finally here” birds arrive? At my house, spring came Monday, April 29.By Mark Faherty
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This week on the Local Food Report, a slaughterhouse in Westport.By Elspeth Hay
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A nearby island where the birds are in charge
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This past weekend I was lucky enough to get in on an overnight junket to the island of Penikese, at the far end of the Elizabeths chain, courtesy of Dr. Andrew Gillis of the Marine Biological Lab and our hosts, the Penikese School.By Mark Faherty
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