"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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This morning it's safe to drink the tap water again in North Harwich.Residents had been forced to drink only bottled water for two days, after firefighting foam affected a public well.
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Beau Valtz is standing in his Wellfleet kitchen in front of a giant pile of fresh garlic.He's wrapping heads of garlic tightly in tin foil.
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"Trumpet saved my life," says Wayne Naus, jazz band director at Monomoy Regional High School.
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April isn’t my favorite month in the birding calendar, especially when its weather barely outperforms bleakest March, but it has its charms – the first hummingbirds and seabird migration among them.
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People come to live on Cape Cod for a variety of reasons. I came because its landscape and history spoke to me in such a compelling manner as a subject for writing.
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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When actor George Takei was 4 years old, he was labeled an "enemy" by the U.S. government and sent to a string of incarceration camps. His new children's book about that time is My Lost Freedom.
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The man took out pamphlets espousing conspiracy theories, tossed them around, then doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire outside the courthouse Friday, officials and witnesses said.
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Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up in rural Jamaica, he could barely read. When he was about 12, a young teacher-in-training arrived at his school.
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China's feared state security ministry has been more public and more powerful in its quest to suppress internal dissent and monitor foreign activity.
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As Trump's high-profile hush money case moves forward, the court is also grappling with an issue that has become a regular and concerning feature of Trump's many trials — how to keep jurors safe.