A new front has opened in the Massachusetts National Guard’s years effort to build a controversial machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod. Newly disclosed emails reveal the Guard is leveling accusations against the Environmental Protection Agency, and trying to cut the EPA out of the process.
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When did your “spring is finally here” birds arrive? At my house, spring came Monday, April 29.
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Over the past few weeks our local snowbirds have been returning from their annual winter sojourns in the south.
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After a few months of garbled data from the long-serving Voyager 1 spacecraft, NASA has restored communications. CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about the effort to get back in touch with the space probe.
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In a letter to Holtec Tuesday, Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Bill Keating asked the company to respond in writing, by May 31, to a list of 13 detailed questions.
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The Massachusetts Army National Guard submitted a new plan to the Environmental Protection Agency after officials from the federal agency found the range’s initial design could contaminate the aquifer that runs beneath the base. That aquifer provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of Cape residents and visitors.
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Depending on who you talk to Artificial Intelligence is either the end for humankind, or the solution to our most complex problems.
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Jazz Men: All about the lives and influence of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie
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News Roundup: Radioactive water evaporation called out by fed delegation; machine gun range pushbackThis week: Our congressional delegation, including Senators Markey and Warren, want to know what’s going on with radioactive water being evaporated at the Pilgrim Nuclear plant. And, we’ve got reaction to new machine gun range plans. Also: New Bedford is gearing up to be a maintenance base for offshore wind.
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