Morning Edition Extra
One Northampton doctor recommends medical marijuana, despite a lack of dispensaries, commentator Dan Weingrod talks TV binge-viewing, emerald ash borers may be headed to New England, and UMass scientists use European fly larva to eradicate winter moths.
Ten years ago a new invasive pest from Europe known as the winter moth was discovered in not far from Boston. Often compared to the gypsy moth, it has since spread along the coastal New England and New York. Annually it damages about 100,000 acres of forest. Laurie Sanders reports:
A study on gambling's societal impact, an urban poet in Lenox and the late Randolph Bromery at StoryCorps
MA State Treasurer talks about internet taxes; how NE is securing energy from renewables to meet legislative mandates and one aspect of putting out brush fires
This week on Morning Edition Extra, ESPN's Howard Bryiant on Jason Collins coming out, plus contemporary art in traditional Stockbridge, Mass., and commentator Robert Chipkin on the Boston Marathon and his family's coming through OK, most of the time.
UMass alum Ken Feinberg to administer the One Fund Boston, a UMass graduate student calls out Harvard reasearch and a U.S. Senate candidate profile
How Iraqi refugees in MA are adjusting to life in the U.S., how the experience differs from east to west; an entomologist laments NE's near miss of the 17 year cicada
Today on Morning Edition Extra, a closer look at Connecticut's new gun law; also a walk through Holyoke via the photos of Jerome Liebling, and a little Emily Dickinson set to music to start off National Poetry Month.
A look at the impact of changes in the Defense of Marriage Act, and soldiers and veterans are doing yoga to treat an issues that come with war
An artist painting portraits of US Iraq war veterans and active duty soldiers; a new stage production from Double Edge Theater and the Tiny House movement
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