IN THE HEADLINES…

MASSACHUSETTS SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM GALVIN WANTS TO TALK TO THE INVESTOR KNOWN AS ROARING KITTY… ABOUT HIS MULTIMILLION DOLLAR GAINS ON HIS GAMESTOP STOCK…  HE WAS A REPRESENTATIVE FOR MASS MUTUAL… BUT WAS HIS ONLINE ACTIVITY A HOBBY.. OR SOMETHING ELSE?

ANDREW YANG… ONCE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT… HAS A DOUBLE-DIGIT LEAD IN THE RACE FOR NEW YORK MAYOR.. ACCORDING TO A NEW POLL

AND LATER.. NEW YORK POLICE HAD TO HELP A SUSPECT FLEEING FROM THEM… AFTER THAT SUSPECT WAS DANGLING FROM A BUILDING LEDGE..A FEW BLOCKS EAST OF CENTRAL PARK… HE HAD SOMETHING ICE COLD IN IS BACKPACK… YOU GOTTA HANG OUT TILL THE END TO GET THE SCOOP… ON THIS. 

IN THE HEADLINES… VERMONT PRIDES ITSELF SO MUCH ON THE RITUAL OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY CALLED TOWN MEETING… THERE’S A DAY ON THE CALENDAR ESPRESSLY FOR IT… ALMOST 3 QUARTERS OVER VERMONT’S TOWNS ARE SENDING OUT BALLOTS INSTEAD THIS YEAR.

IN QUEBEC… PREVENTION PROGRAMS ARE BEING SIDETRACKED DUE TO THE PANDEMIC.. WE’LL RUN DOWN HOW…

LATER.. THE BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS… THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS.. IT’S KILLING PEOPLE IN THE NUMBER OF MILLIONS.

AND ONCE WE START TRAVELING AGAIN… HOW TO PROVE TO OTHER COUNTRIES… UNEQUIVIVALLY… THAT YOU’VE BEEN VACCINATED FOR COVID-19?

Plus 

…. A STUDY FINDS MILLIONS OF LIVES ARE CLAIMED BY THE BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS…

AND HOW ARE YOU DIVING UP YOUR HOUSEHOLD CHORES DURING A PANDEMIC? 

Then....  Thank you for listening... and from all the places.. that you're listening from. 

IN THE HEADLINES…

A NEW REPORT SUGGESTS MORE OF US ARE GRAPPLING WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AMID COVID..

HINTS THAT A NEW AMAZON FACILITY WILL SPRING UP IN RHODE ISLAND

AND THE SNOWY BLAST SOME OF US IN THE GREAT NORTHEAST GOT YESTERDAY… IS NAILING NOVA SCOTIA TODAY… 

Plus... Dallas residents on the look out for a crow named Onyx... and the case of the millon-dollar lottery ticket.. stuffed in a drawer...

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GOOD EVENING IT’S 28 DEGREES AT 7 O’CLOCK IN ST JOHNSBURY, VT… FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH I’M BOB WELCH AND WELCOME … TO MY WORLD…

HEADLINES…

VERMONT OFFICIALS HAVE HAD TO RESPOND TO 2 SEPARATE INCIDENTS DURING VIRTUAL CALLS THIS WEEK… WHICH INVOLVED EITHER A RACIAL SLUR.. OR QUESTIONING THE VALDIDITY OF SOMEONE’S IDENTITY.

IN QUEBEC… THE ERA OF BUILDING ENORMOUS HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER GENERATING STATIONS MAY BE OVER..

ALSO TONIGHT… MAN-MADE OCEAN NOISE.. AND A NEW REPORT THAT DELVES INTO ITS EFFECT ON SMALLER OCEAN LIFE.. AS OPPOSED TO THE BIG FISH WE NORMALLY SEE REPORTS ON.

A STORY OF A MUSICIAN WHO LOST HIS FLUTE ON THE CHICAGO TRANSIT SYSTEM DURING A LAYOVER ON HIS WAY BACK TO BOSTON…. BUT, THEN FOUND IT AGAIN…  AND A BRITISH COLUMBIA MAN WHO HELPED A WOMAN FROM GEORGIA.. WHO WAS ON HER WAY TO HER HUSBAND IN ALASKA.. BUT GOT STUCK IN THE SNOW. THEN THE PLANTERS PEANUT PEOPLE GOT WIND OF IT.. AND THEY’RE THANKING THEM. 

Bob's World for Thursday, Feb 4 2021

IN THE HEADLINES…  ATTORNEYS GENERAL FROM ALL BUT 3 STATES HAVE HAMMERED OUT A SETTLEMENT WITH THE CONSULTING FIRM MCKINSEY & COMPANY ABOUT THEIR PROMOTION OF OPIATE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. THE SETTLEMENT’S WORTH MILLIONS.

SMALL TOWNS.. LIKE GREENSBORO, VERMONT AND..SHORT-TERM RENTALS LIKE AIRBNB AND HOW TO HAVE THE RIGHT BALANCE.. 

THE MASSACHUSETTS FIRE MARSHALL HAS A WARNING ABOUT… POWER STRIPS.. AFTER A FAULTY ONE IS BEING BLAMED ON A FATAL FIRE IN WORCESTER COUNTY.

And the test alert that went public in Texas... about "Chucky"

Wednesday, Feb 3, 2021

Turbines try to harness the tide that waits for no man

The United States' most-easterly city... wants a new city manager..

Urban renewal without the gentrification and how Newark, NJ is trying to do it.

This Date in History..

You may not know the name Sidney Unobskey but you know his work.

Bob's World for Tuesday February 2nd 2021

One Vermont waste management district cries foul over the Vermont AG's settlement with another.. and it's all over glass that wasn't recycled.

Doing donuts on a parking lot next to the water during a snowstorm? Bad decision.

And commentary on cutbacks at Canada's Bell Media... which have essentially shut down both the CFRB Newsroom in Toronto and the CJAD Newsroom in Montreal.   

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People are driving long distances within states.. to get COVID shots from the Maine Coast to Long Island..

The area around Fenway Park's getting a makeover.

The Globe & Mail's European bureau chief says the people who get hurt most from stories like Game Stop... aren't hedge fund people... it's pension funds.

And a library book gets turned in 82 years after it was checked out.. in Sydney Cape Breton and that may be the reason why that book still exists..

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Was the Mass Gov listening to this broadcast when I suggested the open a phone line for seniors to get COVID shots?  They did just that!

Vermont loses over 800 Moderna vaccines due to the freezer being off by 1 degree

GM says the internal combustion engine's days... are numbered

Remembering Challenger..

Bay Staters logon to get their COVID shot

Your pooch might've decended from Siberia

Stocks that soar like eagles that aren't worth all that much

Bob describes a math problem.

And a guy from Long Island finds his high school class ring.. 11 years after he lost it.

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