John Basile
Host of Morning Edition, ReporterJohn Basile is the local host of Morning Edition.
He joined WCAI in 2019 after a long run as Managing Editor of The Register newspaper and other publications on Cape Cod.
A music lover, the author of a history of jazz on Cape Cod and a devotee of the history of baseball and popular culture, he often ponders the wonders of the vinyl LP and lives in West Yarmouth with his wife Kathryn.
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Former State Representative Ruth Provost is following up on an idea she had more than two decades ago when she represented the Upper Cape in the Massachusetts House. -
"From Sea To Shining Sea: Katharine Lee Bates and the story of "America the Beautiful'" a new film by writer and director John de Graaf will premiere at the Falmouth Public Library on Main Street, Thursday, March 13 at 7 p.m. The screening will include a question and answer session with the director and Bates biographer Melinda Ponder and local author Leonard Miele. -
New tracking devices are providing data on the behavior of loggerhead turtles who have been returned to the ocean after being cold-stunned and rehabilitated. -
The town of Yarmouth and the Barnstable County Commissioners are urging the state to back off a proposed limit on the amount of state assistance towns can get for their projects to install sewers. -
There have been no confirmed cases of transmission of bird flu from human to human. Public health agencies want to keep it that way and have issued some common-sense guidelines. -
On a split vote, the Barnstable Town Council has agreed to ask Mass Development to examine the possibility of creating a combined commercial and military airport at Joint Base Cape Cod on the Upper Cape. Some worry that it could be the first move toward closure of the town-owned Cape Cod Gateway Airport in Hyannis. -
Gov. Maura Healey wants to close the state’s Pocasset Mental Health Center as part of her fiscal 2026 proposed budget. But unions who represent workers their strongly oppose the idea.The Pocasset facility is a 16-bed inpatient acute mental health stabilization unit serving patients aged 19 and older. -
The Head Start program allows year-round and seasonal residents of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket the opportunity to make up to 10 summer reservations per customer prior to the openings to the public. But the true test of the reservation system is still to come. -
Using more than $2.5 million in federal grant funds, The Association to Preserve Cape Cod, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and other agencies will work to restore fish passage in the Mashpee River. -
CAI's John Basile presents this look at the late President Jimmy Carter and his appreciation for America's music; jazz.
