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Barnstable County's new emergency management director knows what the county has to do to prepare for a major disaster.
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From "Happy as a Clam" to "Squeezed Inn," a Cape Cod cottage-naming saga full of bad puns, a 92-year-old sign-maker's wisdom, and the realization that some things resist a name. -
Mark Faherty, science coordinator at Mass Audubon Cape Cod, joins host Amy Vince to talk birds and the natural world. -
Ebony Dowell runs into her mother. Produced by Mae Nagusky and Atlantic Public Media. -
On today's program C.L. talks about mid-summer fertilizing, the Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival, and takes listener calls about perennial plants, July plant care, and the growth of trees. -
A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading journalists.
The Point
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Manjith Kainickara/FlikrMark Faherty, science coordinator at Mass Audubon Cape Cod, joins host Amy Vince to talk birds and the natural world. -
Jennette Barnes/CAIA review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading journalists. -
Coutesy Small Tue ThingsA project that records stories about the small, true things in the lives of students. -
Michael Patterson/WikicommonsWe discuss the weather and climate patterns contributing to the lack of rainfall and what a prolonged drought means for wildfire risk.
NPR Stories
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Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty ImagesThe payment comes three years after a jury found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer. -
Jared Lloyd/Getty ImagesBy altering the definition of the word "harm" as used by the Endangered Species Act, the Trump administration may limit how wildlife is protected in the United States. Environmental groups are suing.
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The New Yorker writer Jonathan Blitzer says thousands of people are being held in tents in the El Paso desert, where inhumane conditions have become a tool to pressure people to accept deportation.
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The visa process for visiting artists has always been complicated and expensive. Under the current administration, it's gotten significantly worse. -
Annual inflation hit 3.5% in June, down from May's more than three-year high — but the resumption of the conflict with Iran threaten to push up inflation as energy costs once again spike.
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