This week on Behind the Headlines, the panel discusses restrictions on public comment at Riverhead Town Board meeting; congressional town hall meetings; the reaction to racist comments posted on the Butterfly Effect’s social media pages; and the Southampton School superintendent’s reaction of federal DEI challenges.<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, Riverhead Local<a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011167262732" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alek Lewis</a>, staff writer, RiverheadLocal.com<a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.mackey.984" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michael Mackey</a>, Local Host for Long Island Morning Edition, WLIW-FM

Express Sessions: Taking the Pulse of the Hamptons Real Estate Market

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