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By Dan Bobkoff

NORTHAMPTON, MA – New England Watershed magazine is a new arrival to the region. The bi-monthly publication seeks to serve ideas and images to northeastern readers, and plans to stay rooted in the landscape of the Connecticut River Valley where the magazine is based.

WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Dan Bobkoff spoke with the magazine's founder.

By Dan Bobkoff

Albany, NY – Coming up in this edition of In Our Backyard: Scientists may have discovered a modern day garden of Eden in Indonesia and President Bush's 2007 budget-is it good or bad for the environment. Air Date: 2/20/2006

By Pat Bradley

Moriah, NY – National Grid's handling of the aftermath of last Friday's wind storm is being criticized by some local government officials. At least 320-thousand homes and business across upstate New York suffered power failures. One state assembly representative plans to lodge a formal complaint with the state Public Service Commission over the utility's response. WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley has more.

By Pat Bradley

Burlington, VT – The Burlington City Council will vote tonight on a counter resolution to a resolution that will appear on the Town Meeting Day Ballot. Those who crafted the anti-war measure believe the city is ceding to pressure from the military, while the city says says it is acknowledging the economic importance of an Air Guard base. WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley has more.

Albany, NY – Word For The Wise #2922--02/21/06: The Battle of Verdun

Albany, NY – As part of the Clinton Administration, Bruce Babbitt served as the US Secretary of the Interior for eight years. He also served as both Arizona's governor and as their attorney general.

His new book is Cities in the Wilderness which makes the case for why we need a national vision of land use. Babbitt will be coming to our region this weekend to talk about the topic. In the first part of Joe Donahue's 2-part interview, Joe asks him about how he came to this topic and what he means by the title "Cities in the Wilderness."

Albany, NY – As part of the Clinton Administration, Bruce Babbitt served as the US Secretary of the Interior for eight years. He also served as both Arizona's governor and as their attorney general.

His new book is Cities in the Wilderness which makes the case for why we need a national vision of land use. Babbitt will be coming to our region this weekend to talk about the topic. In the second of his 2-part interview, Joe Donahue asks him how you can tell when development has gone too far...

Albany, NY – GENIE ZEIGER, A WRITER AND POET WHO RESIDES IN NEIGHBORING WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, HAS OCCASIONALLY REGAILED US WITH ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. GENIE'S LATEST COLLECTION OF POEMS WAS RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY WHITE PINE PRESS. WAMC'S RESIDENT POET, PAUL ELISHA, HAS GIVEN IT HIGH PRAISE AND INVITED GENIE IN, TO TALK ABOUT THE BOOK, HOW MUCH IN HER LIFE IS RELATED TO POETRY AND VICE VERSA.

THE TITLE OF GENIE ZEIGER'S BOOK IS - "RADIO WAVES." IT'S PUBLISHED BY WHITE PINE PRESS.

By Deborah Runcie