Steve Junker
Managing Editor of NewsSteve Junker is Managing Editor of News at CAI.
Steve oversees CAI’s award-winning newsroom, including on-air and digital news coverage.
He joined the radio station in 2007. His reporting has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press and the Murrow Awards. He hosts a live hour-long weekly program, The Local News Roundup, in which he speaks with editors and reporters from across the region about the week’s biggest stories. And he produces the weekly seasonal report on Cape Cod fishing action, The Fishing News.
A writer, a fisherman, an occasional boat builder, a recovering musician, a longtime chicken rancher, a beekeeper... Steve keeps busy in Woods Hole, where he lives with his wife and two children.
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This week: The state approves an offshore wind power cable to come ashore at Craigville Beach. Meanwhile, opponents of a machine gun range at Joint Base Cape Cod are celebrating what’s not in the latest defense budget – that would be more money to build the range. And, a plan for a longer airport runway in Hyannis has residents concerned.
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This week: Vineyard Wind says it will power up its first offshore wind turbines before the end of the year (look out, that’s just 3 weeks from now!). Meanwhile, the state says it has applied for more than a billion dollars to fund a new Sagamore Bridge. And: What happens when lobstermen try to design a better lobster trap to help save endangered right whales?
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This week: The race is on. State Senator Su Moran announces she’s not running for re-election, she’ll run for a different office, and Representative Dylan Fernandes says he’ll run for the senate seat, leaving his up for grabs—we’ll help you sort it all out. And that million gallons of radioactive water at Pilgrim power station? It’s evaporating, quicker than you might think.
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With the announcement, Moran told CAI she plans to run for clerk of courts for Barnstable County Superior Court, a position held since 2000 by Republican Scott Nickerson. And fast in the wake of the news, State Representative Dylan Fernandes told CAI that he is running for the state senate seat for the Plymouth and Barnstable District.
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The unsettling history Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States.
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This week: A horse breaks loose on a cargo plane, leading to 20 tons of jet fuel being discharged over the Cape and Islands (yes, that happened). Also, New Bedford 's fishing community is trying to come to terms with an overdose epidemic. And: more than 60 would-be voters in Truro are being asked to prove their residency.
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This week: Barnstable County Commissioners are urging the state’s federal delegation not to fund a machine gun range at Joint Base Cape Cod. Also: new details emerge about how an unattended ferry could drift away from a dock. And two brothers get a reminder that white sharks stick around through the fall.
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This week: The region heaves a sigh of relief, as maintenance work finishes on the Bourne Bridge. Also, public health officials are urging people to get vaccinated for respiratory viruses ahead of winter. And family members of three missing fishermen from Georgia believe they may be off Nantucket.
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This week: The state’s two senators and a White House advisor come to Bourne to discuss replacing the Cape bridges. Meanwhile, the army national guard has solicited bids to build its heavy machine gun range at Joint Base Cape Cod. And: creating more housing is a big topic this week, locally, as the Governor comes to Yarmouth and a summit is held in Hyannis.
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This week: We've got local reaction to the war in the Middle East. And it's official: the first offshore wind turbine is complete south of the islands, so now it's on to the next 61. And it's been a week of big announcements at the statehouse, with funding for housing, and gun legislation, and a capacity limit on the state’s shelter system.