Albany, NY – Shannon Moffett is a Stanford Medical Student who has written a new book on the brain. It's called The Three-Pound Enigma and in it she trails pioneering neuroscientists into operating rooms, labs, and brain scanning centers to introduce us to the gream minds who study the human mind.

Susan Arbetter spoke with Shanon Moffett and asked her why she wanted to explore the inner workings of the brain.

Shannon Moffett's new book is called The Three-Pound Enigma. It's published by Algonquin.

By Carrie Saldo

North Adams, MA – North Adams, Massachusetts has been dubbed a come-back kid by a nationally distributed magazine.

By Pat Bradley

Montpelier, VT – Poor and elderly Vermonters have been switched back to the once problem-plagued federal Medicare-D prescription drug plan. Both advocates and state officials say it will take several days to gauge whether the federal system is working, but in its first day there were few problems reported. WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley has more.

Albany, NY – Word For The Wise #2934--03.09.06: Waiting in the greenroom

Albany, NY – New York's Sherwood Boehlert joins Alan Chartock in the Congressional Corner to discuss NASA's federal funding, President Bush's American Competitiveness Initiative, and Iran's nuclear capabilities.

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Mary Darcy and Jeanne Neff review some of the news stories you may have missed.

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By Carrie Saldo

Great Barrington, MA – Film and TV actress Karen Allen is directing a play at Great Barrington's Simon's Rock College of Bard, where she is also a professor.
Our Berkshire Bureau Chief, Carrie Saldo spoke with Allen about her 30-year-plus career as well as her latest endeavor;

By Pat Bradley

Saranac Lake, NY – The National Trust for Historic Peservation annually chooses a dozen locations in the US that are the the most unique and lovingly preserved communities in the country. This year, one of them is a well-known community deep in the Adirondacks. WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley has more.

By Dan Bobkoff

SPRINGFIELD, MA – The troubled Pioneer Valley Transit Authority yesterday hired an interim administrator charged with leading the agency out from under major scandals. But, some say the new administrator is the wrong man for the job.

Our Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Dan Bobkoff has the story.

By Deborah Runcie

Buchanan, NY – Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey of Ulster County New York and colleagues from New York and Connecticut, have introduced bi-partisan legislation that would require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to examine safety issues at the Indian Point Power Plant in northern Westchester County.
WAMC'S Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Deborah Runcie reports: