John Basile
Host of All Things Considered, ReporterJohn Basile is the local host of All Things Considered weekday afternoons and a reporter.
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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The group of migrants that was housed at a Yarmouth motel for seven months has been relocated to shelters off-Cape, where there is staff to help them.
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Shark researchers expect to learn a lot from data collected by a new tag attached to a shark off South Carolina.
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Work by a group supporting gun safety has paid off. The Falmouth Police Department is working with the State Police to have 26 surplus shotguns destroyed, rather than used as trade-ins toward new guns.
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CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about a star system 3,000 light-years away from Earth that will become visible to the unaided eye.
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We will be able to observe two very different eclipses this spring; a lunar eclipse in March and a solar eclipse in April.In this installment of Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory about this celestial events.
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Astronomers have recently discovered two galaxies that might present a challenge to a broadly accepted theory of how galaxies form. In this edition of Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile discusses this discovery with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket.
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The Steamship Authority has already begun taking action on a finding of a state audit that says employees lack adequate training for cybersecurity awareness.
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In a reversal of policy, the Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to deposit dredged sand from the Cape Cod Canal on Town Neck Beach in Sandwich.
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Longtime Outer Cape state representative Sarah Peake says nine terms in the Massachusetts House will be enough.