Patrick Flanary
Host, Morning EditionPatrick Flanary is a dad, journalist, and host of Morning Edition.
His reporting on music, mental health, politics, business, and equality has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, ProPublica, Quartz, and elsewhere.
Patrick spent a year reporting on the Cape Cod murder trial of former Coast Guardsman Adrian Loya. His prison interview with Loya was expanded into a feature for Psychology Today magazine, which explored how Loya’s range of psychiatric diagnoses revealed the difficulty of untangling mental fitness from criminal intent at trial.
For three years Patrick lived in Beijing, where he contributed an American perspective on China Radio International.
He lives in Hyannis Port.
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Massachusetts Lobstermen are looking for a new way to fish during an annual 3-month-long closure established to protect migrating whales. CAI’s Eve Zuckoff reports they’ve just been awarded a 1.2 million grant to develop technology on their own.
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'The preservation of history is crucial,' says Provincetown historian Stefan Anikewich, who scours archives and curates his finds at @provincetownarcheology.
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An international cargo plane on Thursday dumped 6,000 gallons of fuel over the Cape and Islands during an emergency return to New York after a horse aboard the jet escaped its stall.
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Treatment required gallons of dish soap, hundreds of pounds of fish, and two weeks' rest for the gulls to regain the strength to fly.
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Nonprofit is restoring the Pleasant Bay island to its Indigenous history.
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Fiction is popular among incarcerated people on Cape Cod, whose library is expanding by the week.
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The American Jail Association administration course is the first held in Massachusetts. 'Training suggests a culture where people always are striving to learn from each other,' says Sheriff Donna Buckley.
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Barnstable Land Trust to host weekend-long reading honoring Thoreau’s ode to Cape Cod.
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Recreational-scalloping season is here. But enthusiasm is down among commercial catchers, many of whom are aging out of the industry.
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A nod to Slaughterhouse-Five? A fan's bronze piece to be auctioned at Sturgis Library in October.