WCAI News Director Sean Corcoran hosts a discussion about the top local news stories of the week. Joining him this week are Patrick Cassidy of the Cape Cod Times; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Jim DeArruda at the New Bedford Standard-Times; and Nelson Sigelman of the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Among the stories they discuss: The state's highest court strikes down a political speech law in a case that originated on Cape Cod; neighbors in Sandwich kill a plan that would use dredged sand to re-nourish eroding coastline there; Sheriff James Cummings blasts federal immigration policies; Barnstable County gets grant money to target drug prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery; another Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station worker fails a drug/alcohol test; the state adds $1 million in funds for a massive salt marsh project on the Outer Cape; and the first family returns to Martha's Vineyard.