The Point

WCAI’s Sean Corcoran hosts the Friday News Roundup. His guests include Geoff Spillane of the Cape Cod Times; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Jim DeArruda of the New Bedford Standard-Times; Sara Brown of the Martha's Vineyard Gazette; Ann Wood with the Provincetown Banner; and Bill Chaisson of the Martha’s Vineyard Times. Among the stories discuss this week: Sean and his guests dig deep into the election results, focusing on local and regional races; journalists discuss the individual ballot

Here's what writer Joyce Carol Oates said about Clare Beams: "It's as if, by a rare sort of magic, Alice Munro and Shirley Jackson had conspired together to imagine a female/feminist voice for the 21st Century that is wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable, and wholly engaging.” WCAI's Mindy Todd interviews Beams, a former English teacher at Falmouth Academy.

We look at myths about aging, and also explore the negative images of aging contrasted with the value and humor of aging. Mindy Todd’s guests are Kathy Budreski and Amanda Murphy, authors of the book What’s So Funny about Aging and Being Mortal- Challenging Perspectives on Aging and Dying.

We don’t like to talk about it, but we really need to. How we want our lives to end is a topic that deserves our attention. Mindy Todd hosts a conversation about WCAI’s upcoming series Our Mortal Lives: Confronting Death and Dying. Guests include the executive producer of the series and WCAI’s News Director Sean Corcoran, series producer and reporter Kathryn Eident, and reporter Elsa Partan. The series begins November 14th on WCAI.

On The Point, highlights of the season's bird action, with Mark Faherty, ornithologist and science coordinator at Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. Mindy Todd hosts. We hear about the last of those birds who are migrating away, sea and shore birds, and all about the fall finches.

Today is the first day of COP22, the twenty second annual meeting of international climate change negotiators. This year’s conference is like none of the previous ones, because – this time – there’s an international climate agreement in effect. The Paris Agreement entered into force last Friday, November 4th. That agreement has the support of all 195 negotiating parties, and has already been ratified by one hundred parties, accounting for nearly seventy percent of global greenhouse gas

The candidates for Massachusetts 9th Congressional District join Mindy Todd in The Point studio to debate the top issues of our region. The candidates are: Mark Alliegro (Republican); Christopher Cataldo (Unenrolled); Paul Harrington (Independent); William Keating (Democrat); and Anna Grace Raduc (Unenrolled).

Candidates for Barnstable County Commissioner sit down with host Mindy Todd in The Point studio to debate the top issues for the county. The candidates in the studio are Linda Bond (Republican), Mary Pat Flynn (Democrat), and Mark Forest (Democrat). Also running is Ron Beaty (Republican), who was unable to attend the debate. The four candidates are competing for two open seats.

On The Point, candidates for Dukes County Sheriff sit down with Mindy Todd to debate the issues important to our region: Neal Maciel is running as an unenrolled candidate; Robert Ogden is running as a Democrat.

On The Point, Mindy Todd hosts a debate with the candidates for Barnstable County Sheriff: Randy Azzato (Democrat) and James Cummings (Republican).