Sittin In: Cape Cod Jazz

This week: The owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear plant is denied a permit to dump a million gallons of wastewater into Cape Cod Bay. Also: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis holds a Cape Cod fundraiser not far from where he sent 49 migrants in a political stunt last fall. And, a local firefighter travels to Canada to fight wildfires—and brings back new techniques.

News Roundup: Pilgrim Nuclear denied water discharge permit; local firefighter battles Canada fires

The new science of the world's most enigmatic bird

What the owl knows

The Point's monthly book show: summer reading

Summer reading 

Marine Biologist Greg Skomal's life tracking Great White Sharks.

Great White Sharks

An interview with Richard Vacca about the vibrant jazz scene in Boston in the mid 20th century.

Sittin in: Richard Vacca

A discussion of what impacts the Cape and Islands can expect from climate change, and what can be done about it.

How Climate Change Affects the Cape and Islands

This week: $350 million to replace the Cape bridges is in a US senate bill. It’s far from a done deal—and nowhere near enough—but it puts the project on the game board. Also, $20 million from the Cape RTA may fund a bike path extension in Bourne, but only if the tracks are taken up. And satellites may help keep an eye on the health of Cape Cod’s ponds.

News Roundup: Cape bridges named in Senate appropriations; satellites over Cape ponds

The 19th summer of the Provincetown Jazz Festival

The Provincetown Jazz Festival

Interviews with 3 filmmakers featured at this year’s Festival

 This year’s Woods Hole Film Festival 

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.

This month's health program's focus is OCD

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 

The Point's monthly gardening program: July.

July Gardens

Tianna Esperanza

Sittin In: Tianna Esperanza

This week: A measure that could block the dumping of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay is being considered as an amendment in budget negotiations at the statehouse; local activists are watching its progress. Also, sharks close Great Point beach on Nantucket. And: catching a flight from Logan? For the next two months, you’ll want to leave plenty of extra time.

News Roundup: Statehouse measure may block radioactive water dump; sharks close ACK beach

Courses and opportunities at this year’s Cape Cod Writer’s Center Conference

Becoming a better writer

What the great English poets would have written about Mary and her lamb.

The Lamb Cycle

Martha’s Vineyard in the Roaring ‘20’s

Bird news in July

An interview with guitarist and composer Fred Fried

Sittin In: CAI's local music program

This week: Following on the early-week heavy rain, we see a wave of beach closures for water quality issues. And in Dennis, Mayflower Beach was closed July 4 by police after thousands showed up ready to party. Meanwhile, the National Seashore evicted 94-year-old artist Sal Del Deo from the dune shack he's used since the 1940s.

News Roundup: Beaches closed for water quality and rowdy behavior; Del Deo evicted from dune shack 

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