This week on Behind The Headlines, the panel discusses a number of topics, including where legalized cannabis dispensaries will be located, a cyberattack in the Riverhead School District, affordable housing and rising Numbers of COVID-19 cases.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/shaw11946" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph P. Shaw</a>, Executive Editor, The Express News Group<a href="https://www.facebook.com/wpsutton" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bill Sutton,</a> Managing Editor, The Express News Group<a href="https://www.facebook.com/civiletti" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Denise Civiletti,</a> Editor/Publisher, &nbsp;Riverhead Local<a href="https://www.facebook.com/joe.werkmeister" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joe Werkmeister,</a> Editor, Times-Review Media Group<a href="https://www.facebook.com/chrissysampson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chrissy Sampson</a>, Deputy Managing Editor, East Hampton Star

December 18th, 2021 - Continued COVID coverage, social media school threa, Tony Walton retrospectice, fatal crash, and recreational cannabis

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