Steve Junker
Managing Editor of NewsSteve Junker is Managing Editor of News at CAI.
Steve oversees CAI’s award-winning newsroom, including on-air and digital news coverage.
He joined the radio station in 2007. His reporting has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press and the Murrow Awards. He hosts a live hour-long weekly program, The Local News Roundup, in which he speaks with editors and reporters from across the region about the week’s biggest stories. And he produces the weekly seasonal report on Cape Cod fishing action, The Fishing News.
A writer, a fisherman, an occasional boat builder, a recovering musician, a longtime chicken rancher, a beekeeper... Steve keeps busy in Woods Hole, where he lives with his wife and two children.
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With the announcement, Moran told CAI she plans to run for clerk of courts for Barnstable County Superior Court, a position held since 2000 by Republican Scott Nickerson. And fast in the wake of the news, State Representative Dylan Fernandes told CAI that he is running for the state senate seat for the Plymouth and Barnstable District.
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The unsettling history Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States.
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This week: A horse breaks loose on a cargo plane, leading to 20 tons of jet fuel being discharged over the Cape and Islands (yes, that happened). Also, New Bedford 's fishing community is trying to come to terms with an overdose epidemic. And: more than 60 would-be voters in Truro are being asked to prove their residency.
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This week: Barnstable County Commissioners are urging the state’s federal delegation not to fund a machine gun range at Joint Base Cape Cod. Also: new details emerge about how an unattended ferry could drift away from a dock. And two brothers get a reminder that white sharks stick around through the fall.
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This week: The region heaves a sigh of relief, as maintenance work finishes on the Bourne Bridge. Also, public health officials are urging people to get vaccinated for respiratory viruses ahead of winter. And family members of three missing fishermen from Georgia believe they may be off Nantucket.
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This week: The state’s two senators and a White House advisor come to Bourne to discuss replacing the Cape bridges. Meanwhile, the army national guard has solicited bids to build its heavy machine gun range at Joint Base Cape Cod. And: creating more housing is a big topic this week, locally, as the Governor comes to Yarmouth and a summit is held in Hyannis.
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This week: We've got local reaction to the war in the Middle East. And it's official: the first offshore wind turbine is complete south of the islands, so now it's on to the next 61. And it's been a week of big announcements at the statehouse, with funding for housing, and gun legislation, and a capacity limit on the state’s shelter system.
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This week: The Barnstable Sheriff is changing operations at the County jail. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce has a suggestion for making the new Cape bridges a lot cheaper: how about a couple of low, causeway-style bridges — and let the big boats worry about themselves? And a new health care tower hits a construction milestone in Hyannis.
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This week: It’s last call for jumping off the old Sandwich boardwalk. Meanwhile, a group is racing to save an iconic modernist Wellfleet house from demolition. And, you can now track rescued sea turtles online.
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This week: Replacing the two Cape bridges just got a little more expensive... like, only just another half a billion dollars more expensive. Meanwhile, the panel on the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant is having some decorum issues. And, it’s orange shirt day today. We’ll tell you what that commemorates.