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Below are some of the letters, telephone calls, and e-mails we've received lately about our programming. We'd love to hear from you. E-mail us with your comments and suggestions. Please include your contact information. We also ask that the tone be civil and respectful of other opinions. We reserve the right to edit for length.

April 27, 2009

I'm a huge, and long-time, CAI-NAN supporter and think you do an amazing job with a limited budget. That said, I wish you could do more that covers a wider variety of what's going on on the Cape and Islands. I mean, I live here because I DO love the ocean, but I've heard enough about fishing and whales and such to last me a lifetime. When I look at your line-up, what really stands out is Alex Crowley's "Styles"--I love the sheer variety of her coverage. Facebook. Shoes. Wifi. Buddhism. Wyeth.

Yes, the majority of our population is tied to the sea...but LOTS of us are also tied to the art world, publishing, and more.

Please, more Alex Crowley!

Brenda
Falmouth

April 17, 2009

As the director of WILD CARE, Cape Cod's Conservation-Based Wildlife Hospital, a longtime listener to Cape Cod NPR stations, and as someone who has had the rare pleasure of working with Northern Gannets, I was deeply disappointed to listen to Robert Finch's Essay "Death in the Open", aired on April 14th.

What an opportunity Mr. Finch had to lead by example, as a proactive conservation steward of one of his wild neighbors if only he had made the decision to help a fellow being clearly in need, and clearly suffering. If he had done so, and told that story, he could have taught thousands of listeners about a free resource to help our wild neighbors right here on Cape Cod and helped to save the lives of many wild creatures. WILD CARE, located on the Orleans Rotary, has accepted many injured and ill Northern Gannets during our 20 years of free care to over 20,000 Cape Cod native creatures.

How we choose to respond to the natural world's survival, whether it be a Gannet fallen from the sky, or a rapidly heating atmosphere starts with either a sense of hope, optimism, and personal responsibility or separation, fatalism, and a decision to "walk away".

Lela Larned
Executive Director
WILD CARE Inc.

April 16, 2009

I do not like The Story and I know others don't either. I like to listen during my lunch hour and this show just doesn't do it for me. I would rather have something a little newsier.

Diane Caliri

April 9, 2009

For months, I have kept my peace, silently gnashing my teeth when 6 am rolled around and, instead of the best program on radio, I got the show I still believe should have been taken away a long time ago. I offered my opinion early on and was batted down so I tried to like it. It did not get better. The host seems to think he is Edward R. Murrow and, instead of making the show about the news, he finds little, and highly irritating ways of making it about himself - something that stands out as NOT being a hallmark of any NPR show. Then I heard the show this morning with Femi Okeh doing the honors, and for the first time, I enjoyed the show. Perhaps Hockenberry should take over reading the news and let the women run the patter and commentary. . .

David Horne
Marion

March 31, 2009

Congratulations on winning the AP award! You are the true Woods Hole powerhouse!

Best wishes,
Matt Person

Please take away The Take Away. It is painful to listen to. I have begun to turn off my radio at a time then I am available to hear and am craving Morning Edition. I have listened to NPR for years at this time in the morning, and I feel a keen loss. If you take away The Take Away, I will make a contribution.

Cady Landa

I love this station, life on Nantucket could not exist with out it - well, it wouldn't have the quality.

Unfortunately I just had to turn off the radio - listening to young people hooked on heroin, some other young man setting fire to stuff - too depressing, its spring! I need hope.

I guess it's good to share these stories, they rarely turn out well so there is something to learn, but I would rather listen to people talking about the good things in their lives.

These downtrodden dialogues lead me to believe that all the country is living in slums, skid row, and there is nothing more to look forward to, no brainers like drugs, alcohol - sure people do it, young people do it - i don't need to hear it "celebrated" on the media - even the music that accompanies is dreary.

Keep up the usually great programing.

Cinda Gaynor
Nantucket

March 7, 2009

I am a supporter of WCAI and listen often during the day; I listened to several episodes of the story at noon, but so far it seems like a dud. I can't get interested in the interviewees; the tone is mawkish and precious; for some reason Dick Gorton is preachy, almost to the point of nausea.

Richard Perry
Brewster

February 27, 2009

I am not sure who does the reporting on gas prices, but as someone who lives on Nantucket, I wanted to let you know that our gas prices are always the highest in the country. It was reported today that Anchorage, Alaska had the highest at $2.39. The cheapest gas on Nantucket right now is $2.79. The lowest it ever got was $2.66.

For those reporters that say Alaska or Hawaii has the highest gas process, they are wrong.

Allyson Silverthorne
Nantucket

Does the addition of "The Story" mean the end of "Day to Day"? I hope this is a temporary change. "Day to Day" provides great, topical news. It seems "The Story" is less about current events, maybe more suited for a weekend slot. Certainly, I will withhold judgment until I have heard more of the "The Story."

Chris Harris
Falmouth

(ed. note: NPR chose to cancel "Day to Day" as a cost-savings measure).

I happened to catch your "Ask the manager" segment this morning and heard some listeners calling in about this program. I am one of those who don't like it. Every morning I was setting my clock radio to come on at 6:00 for Morning Edition. Each day I looked forward to that hour when I could lie in bed and listen to the news before I had to get up. When The Takeaway started, I gave it a chance, but I was so aggravated by the hosts that now, unless I have to wake up at 6:00, I set the radio for 7:00.

Carolyn Spengler
West Tisbury

February 23, 2009

Your piece on the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Jamie Wyeth painting Kleberg and Dozer was wonderful. However there was one mistake concerning admission price. It was stated that admission is free. Admission is $8 per person, Thursdays are by donation. Admission is free for museum members and children 18 and younger.

Again, thank you for the wonderful piece.

Debra Hemeon
CCMA Deputy Director

February 20, 2009

I'm sure there are good reasons, somewhere, for dumping "Day to Day", but I have to say I'm really disappointed. It has been one of my favorite shows. The casual way they explore serious issues, from different perspectives have often given me more to think about then just the editorialized "story" often reported in the news.

Why give up on it now? Even one more month, if that's all there is, would be better than just jumping off a sinking ship.

Captain Jim Pepper
Vineyard Haven and

February 19, 2009

Day to Day is one of my favorite programs, and is literally in my top five. WZAI is the sound track to most of my days, so it competes with lots of quality radio shows. I look forward to Day to Day every day (even more than All Things Considered), so was as sad as many were to learn that it had been cancelled. It feels like friendships with stimulating, clever, and intelligent people are about to end.

I am writing to ask you: why are you ending it before it is completely over? If i can, I will be listening to it on-line until it takes its last breath.

Thank you for being such a great radio station, very nearly almost all of the time!

Irene Seipt
South Wellfleet