The Point

A debate with candidates running for State Representative in the 2nd Barnstable District. Incumbent Will Crocker (Republican) meets challenger Paul Cusack (Democrat) in the Point studio. Mindy Todd hosts. Issues include affordable housing and homelessness, safety at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant, traffic and transportation, and more.

On The Point, Artistic Director and Conductor at the Cape Symphony Jung Ho Pak talks about their upcoming show that takes disco to a new level. Mindy Todd hosts on The Point.

In 1856 The sailing vessel John Rutledge left Liverpool on a passage to New York. En route the ship encountered large icebergs and sank. While most of the passengers and crew made it to lifeboats, only person survived the ordeal: Thomas Nye from Fairhaven. On The Point, host Mindy Todd talks with Author Brian Murphy about his new book Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell About It.

Tragedy struck on Saturday September 15 th when 26-year old Arthur Medici from Revere was fatally bitten by a white shark off Newcomb Hollow beach in Wellfleet. Medici was the first shark-bite fatality in Massachusetts since 1936 but the second person this summer to be bitten. On Aug. 15 William Lytton from New York was bitten while swimming at Long Nook Beach in Truro. Today on The Point we look at the safety, economic and natural resource management repercussions from the shark bite fatality.

WCAI News Director Steve Junker hosts a roundup of some of the top local and regional news of the week, including: s harks and what we can do about them are the focus of a forum in Wellfleet, bringing together experts and community members; the National Seashore is getting an almost 10 million dollar fix-up; and MCAS results show a mixed bag for local schools.

Amelia Earhart may be the most famous female aviator, but she was by no means the only or even the most skilled female pilot of her time. A number of other women not only broke through gender barriers but had skills, bravery and drive that surpassed their male counterparts. On The Point, we talk with Keith O’Brien about his book Fly Girls- Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History.

This month's Books show topic is FOOD. Mindy Todd hosts the conversation in The Point studio, with guests Kelly Porter of Woods Hole Library, and Jill Erickson of Falmouth Public Library. They make our mouths water with quotes and selections from a huge range of literature relating to the culinary arts. Not just food, these books are also about love, yearning, our connection to the earth and growing things, indeed the fundamental elements of life. Click here for a link to a list of books we

This month's Books show topic is FOOD. Mindy Todd hosts the conversation in The Point studio, with guests Kelly Porter of Woods Hole Library, and Jill Erickson of Falmouth Public Library. They make our mouths water with quotes and selections from a huge range of literature relating to the culinary arts. Not just food, these books are also about love, yearning, our connection to the earth and growing things, indeed the fundamental elements of life.

Our marine and coastal environments are facing serious challenges: some have been going on for decades while others, such as the rapid increase in the white shark population and the lack of confirmed right whale births, is unprecedented. Sandy McFarlane believes how we address these issues will require an understanding of how we got to this moment, the complexity of the environment, and how we as humans fit into the larger ecosystem.

WCAI News Director Steve Junker hosts a roundup of some of the top local and regional news of the week, including: a 26-year-old man boogie-boarding in Wellfleet becomes the state’s first shark bite fatality in more than 80 years, Cape responders head to North Carolina to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, and the nursing program at 4Cs is under scrutiny.