In a year when the November ballot has a long list of ballot questions, in Barnstable County voters face an additional one.Question A asks voters to create a 19-member commission that will solicit public opinion of how county government operates and suggest changes.
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On The Garden Lady C.L. welcomed Horticulturalist Leslie Halleck, author of Home Greenhouse Revival: Growing Year-Round Foliage, Flowers, and Food. She opened the program with a postcard from biennials, and listeners called in with questions about timing for bulb planting, growing citrus indoors, growing plants under a Norway maple, and how to grow upright Nippon daisies.
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A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.
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Wellfleet, like many towns on the Cape, is working on plans to reduce nitrogen from its wastewater. But addressing the problem may take more than one solution.
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“I'm just concerned because … there's a ton of seniors out here,” Anne Weirich of Brewster said. The change to a customs rule could impede mail-order prescriptions from international pharmacies, including those in Canada.
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Massachusetts Department of Public Health has designated alpha-gal syndrome a “reportable condition,” illustrating how serious, and how common, the health problem has become.
The Point
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A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.
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In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history, as hundreds of thousands of people raced west in pursuit of sudden wealth, reinvention, and power.
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Did Freud understand something important about psychological suffering that modern psychiatry neglects?
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Researchers are exploring ways to tap into energy from tides, waves, and currents.
NPR Stories
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Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff.
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A polarizing presidential election runoff in Latin America's largest economy and biggest democracy pits leftist Lula da Silva's legacy against Trump ally Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the former Brazilian president.
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In Port Washington, Wisconsin, there's a data center being built that's as big as 500 football fields. Residents aren't sure if it could save their community or destroy it.
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A former Israeli general is the main center-right challenger hoping to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli elections this week.
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A new library in Colorado helps people check out nature, not just books. Library cards give free access to camping gear, nature trails and outdoor experiences.