Behind The Headlines
Behind the Headlines is a new one-hour, weekly public radio program featuring conversations about the local and regional news of the week. Providing analysis of the latest local and regional and cultural issues, Behind the Headlines is hosted by Express News Group editors Bill Sutton and Joseph P. Shaw. To bring listeners a diversity of perspectives, voices and views, each week Sutton and Shaw will host a rotating panel of esteemed guest journalists and colleagues, from a robust collection of East End, Long Island, and regional news and public affairs outlets. Confirmed participating organizat
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 194
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
April 10th, 2021 - Zeldin announcement, state budget impacts, Mattituck high school senior, outdoor dining, and what legal marijuana means for the Shinnecock
This week, the panel discusses U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin’s announcement that he will seek the Republican nomination to run for governor in 2022, the passage of the state’s $212 billion budget an…
April 3rd, 2021
The panelists discuss the plateau and slight rise in Covid cases and vaccinations, local police forces responding to new state reform mandates, and the impacts of legalization of marijuana on the Eas…
March 27th, 2021
This week, the panel discusses a wide range of topics, including the various scandals surrounding Governor Andrew Cuomo, the potential legalization of recreational marijuana in the state, migrant far…
March 20th, 2021
This week, the panel discusses COVID-19 and the effect it has had on nursing homes and nursing home workers, the current state of the vaccine rollout on the East End, and Thursday’s approval by the N…
March 13th, 2021
This week, the panel discusses a wide range of topics, including the one year anniversary of coronavirus being declared a pandemic; the current state of vaccinations on the East End; the story about …
March 6th, 2021
This week, the panel discusses what appears to be a loosening up of the COVID-19 vaccine, with several pop-up PODs distributing doses in local communities on the East End in the past week; statements…
February 27th, 2021
This week, the panel discusses the influx of new residents to the East End in the wake of the pandemic, and the effect that has had and will have in the future, including adding to the affordable hou…
February 20th, 2021
The panelists, including East Hampton Star Editor David Rattray, are joined by Shinnecock Nation Council of Trustees Chairman Bryan Polite for an in-depth discussion of recent headlines that the Sh…
February 13th, 2021
The panelists discuss the state of COVID-19 in local schools, including developments in districts returning to high risk sports; pending legislation that would help local governments better control s…
February 6th, 2021
The panelists discuss the recent court decision regarding “Truck Beach” in Amagansett, in which the judges ruled that the popular beach is privately owned and that the East Hampton Town Trustees cann…
January 30th, 2021
The panelists discuss New York State and Suffolk County agreeing to allow high-risk high school sports beginning in February, and one school’s decision not to participate; ongoing civil case in River…
January 23rd, 2021
The panelists discuss continued issues with the coronavirus vaccine rollout on the East End of Long Island; solar farms in Riverhead and the proposed South Fork Wind Farm in East Hamptons, and the si…
January 16th, 2021
The panelists discuss the events in Washington, D.C. on January 6, and the response of 1stDistrict U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin, as well as the current state of the coronavirus vaccine rollout on t…
Introducing Behind The Headlines
Behind the Headlines, a new public radio program exploring local and regional news, premieres January 16 on 88.3 WLIW-FM and wliw.org/radio
The WNET Group, parent company of Long Island’s only NPR St…