"Every dollar invested in disaster mitigation pays back six times over in avoided losses—and not just in economic terms," Dr. Alison Brizius said in an exclusive interview with CAI. "It pays back in terms of all of the disruption that we avoid to the lives of our residents and our businesses."
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There aren’t many things that will get me out of bed at 5:30 in the morning. But bagels—or really just the prospect of learning how to make them—is one. Recently, I stood in Wellfleet’s Bagel Hound with owner Ellery Althaus, while the windows were still dark, staring a pile of dough.
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The first hummingbird was reported on the Cape, as expected for mid-April, but this eagerly anticipated annual event was overshadowed by spring overshoot fever — southerly winds brought, well, a windfall of rare birds to the Cape and Islands.
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Nantucketers take pride in our long history of stargazing and astronomy. Maria Mitchell, the first woman to work as a professional astronomer, was born here and discovered a comet in 1847 from the roof of the Pacific National Bank at the top of Main Street.
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Local filmmaker Ethan de Aguiar to launch inaugural festival, which runs April 18-21.
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By Tuesday of this week, decking made of ipê hardwood from Brazil had been laid from the Town Neck Beach side of the boardwalk nearly to the Mill Creek bridge.
The Point
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This week: The state has a new head of Coastal Zone Management, which could impact climate planning around our region; a driver eluded police on Martha's Vineyard, crashed through a security gate, and went headlong into the water off the end of the Oak Bluffs ferry terminal; and, Orleans is getting some big public art.
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Learning about whales, including through musical simulations.
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NPR Stories
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Rushdie revisits the knife attack that nearly killed him in a new book. Ken Tucker reviews Tierra Whack's new album. A Black women drives the narrative in Kilpatrick's new murder mystery show.
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The legislation would extend for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. It now goes to President Biden's desk to become law.
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Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the UAW, setting a new trajectory for labor unions in the American South.
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Joan Nathan has spent her life exploring Jewish culture through recipes. Now in her 80s, her new book is her most personal work yet — excavating her own culinary history.
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Under the glare of the lights in New York's Time Square, a Nigerian chess master makes his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous chess game to raise money for children back home.