Venture Anything with Jennette Barnes

Standard-Times reporter Jennette Barnes and Sunday Editor Jack Spillane talk about the story of a New Bedford woman separated from her son after crossing into the U.S.

Venture Anything host Jennette Barnes and Newsroom Editor Jennifer Driscoll talk about the discovery of PCBs found buried in the Bliss Corner neighborhood of Dartmouth. 

Jarynette Gonzalez made the only local film to show at the Zeiterion alongside the LUNAFEST film festival in January. Join us as she talks about the New Bedford story she wanted to tell and how it mirrors parts of her own experience. 

In August, scientists from the School for Marine Science and Technology at UMass Dartmouth deployed an underwater glider west of Martha's Vineyard. Named "Blue," it helps forecast hurricanes from Massachusetts to New Jersey. Professor Wendell Brown reveals how it works.

Scientists working on an invasive species count in New England coastal waters join Jennette Barnes to talk about sea squirts, other marine invaders, and what the public can do. Read about their July visit to Pope's Island here: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/news/20180723/scientists-dip-into-popes-island-waters-for-invasive-species-count

Who's getting the job training money? How will Vineyard Wind balance competing demands from New Bedford, the Cape and the Islands? Listen as Jennette Barnes puts those questions to Erich Stephens, the company's chief development officer.

Reporter Jennette Barnes reads her story on Jean MacCormack's impact on the community, leading to her being honored on June 13 at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

When a child owes school lunch money, some schools take away the child's hot lunch and replace it with a cheaper meal — a practice critics call "lunch shaming." Today on Venture Anything, Patricia Baker, the author of a new report on lunch shaming, talks about the problem and what local schools can do better.

In this episode, Jennette Barnes talks with Global Learning Charter Public School senior Sabrina Fay, who is headed to Princeton University in the fall on a QuestBridge scholarship. QuestBridge is a national nonprofit based in California that works with high-achieving, low-income students, starting in high school, and connects each one with one of about 40 leading colleges and universities.

Hundreds of people have settled in the New Bedford area after fleeing the destruction from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Darlene Spencer of the United Way of Greater New Bedford talks about what the families are facing as their federal shelter aid begins to run out.

Standard-Times reporter Jennette Barnes introduces her new Podcast series and invites New Bedford School Committee member Josh Amaral into the studio to discuss the search for a new superintendent, and more.