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The Point
9:00am and 7:00pm

WCAI's award-winning public affairs program. Tuesday through Thursday, Mindy Todd hosts a lively and informative discussion on critical issues for Cape Cod, the Islands and the South Coast. Every Friday is the News Roundup, as CAI News Director Steve Junker speaks with news editors and reporters from around the region.

  • A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.
  • In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history, as hundreds of thousands of people raced west in pursuit of sudden wealth, reinvention, and power.
  • Did Freud understand something important about psychological suffering that modern psychiatry neglects?
  • Researchers are exploring ways to tap into energy from tides, waves, and currents.
  • A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.
  • Massachusetts Department of Public Health has designated alpha-gal syndrome a “reportable condition,” illustrating how serious, and how common, the health problem has become.
  • How the Cape-based non-profit Advocates for a Community College Education supports students in their pursuit of higher education.
  • The famous crested caracara has been seen in Wellfleet in recent days. What could the future hold for this lost bird?
  • A review of this week's local headlines with our region's leading journalists.
  • Find out where he stands on the issues and why he wants the job.
  • We’re seeing the impacts of beech leaf disease in individual trees and in our coastal beech forests.
  • A review of the most important local stories of the week with our region's leading journalists.