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9:00am and 7:00pm
Hosted by Mindy Todd

CAI's award-winning public affairs program. Tuesday through Friday, Mindy Todd hosts a lively and informative discussion on critical issues for Cape Cod, the Islands and the South Coast. Every Friday is the News Roundup, Mindy Todd speaks with news editors and reporters from around the region.

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  • Steven Raichlen’s new memoir is Man On Fire: Of Life, Love, Literature, and Really Good Barbecue
    Master of the grill
    Steven Raichlen’s latest book is a memoir that follows his path, starting as a scholar of French literature and ending as a world-class BBQ expert.
  • Spooky stories
    Scary stories for your fall reading list.
  • Wilsie (center), originally from Haiti, is photographed on Cape Cod with her mother and granddaughter, Janaila. Her family’s life in Haiti was shaped by hardship and instability, experiences Wilsie still carries with her. In creating the portrait, she wanted to hold that history alongside the hope she feels for the generation that follows. Wilsie and her mother sit together in the background while Janaila, in a shimmering lavender dress, twirls freely in the foreground—a spontaneous moment that came to embody the possibility Wilsie sees in her granddaughter.
    Invisible Threads
    A new portrait and narrative series offers an intimate look into the lives of our immigrant neighbors.
  • Local news roundup
    A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.
  • Nathanial Philbrick’s new book is The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World.
    How the California Gold Rush sped up the arrival of the Civil War
    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.
  • Sigmund Freud, photographed here in 1905, was an Austrian neurologist who invented the treatment of mental illness and neurosis by means of psychoanalysis. He is important in psychology because he studied the unconscious mind.
    Core theories of Freud
    Did Freud understand something important about psychological suffering that modern psychiatry neglects?
  • The Bourne Tidal Test Site is a platform on three piles in approximately 7 meters of tidal waters in the Cape Cod Canal to test equipment that generates power from the tides. The project bridges the gap between small university test tanks and full-scale ocean deployments.
    Renewable energy generated by the ocean
    Researchers are exploring ways to tap into energy from tides, waves, and currents.
  • Bonnie Zampino waves to onlookers at a rally in Orleans to support former and current residents of the Community of Jesus. Zampino, who says she lived at the religious commune as a teen, tells CAI and the Provincetown Independent she was sexually abused by the group's doctor.
    Local news roundup
    A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.
  • Alpha-gal syndrome has become increasingly common on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in recent years.
    Alpha-gal syndrome
    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 2026 commencement ceremony at Cape Cod Community College
    Putting college in reach for more students
    How the Cape-based non-profit Advocates for a Community College Education supports students in their pursuit of higher education.