Steve Klamkin & The Saturday Am News

Dan Horne is assistant dean of the Providence College School of Business. With the recently announced closing of Benny's stores and the Toys R Us bankruptcy filing, he looks at what may lie ahead for retail in Southern New England.

The Director of the Coastal Institute at the University of Rhode Island, Judith Swift has some timely advice on preparing for hurricanes and other stormy weather.

After 143 million Americans had their information compromised including Social Security numbers, birthdates and addresses in the breach of data at credit reporting agency Equifax, Brian Lamoureaux talks about steps consumers can take to protect themselves and their information. He is a business professor at Providence College and an attorney at Pannone, Lopes, Devereaux and O'Gara

Journalist and author Maureen Boyle has written "Shallow Graves - The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer", a story that she covered when the discovery of nine women's bodies in the 1980's gripped Southern New England. https://shallowgravesthebook.com/

The newly crowned Miss America 2018 Cara Mund spoke with #WPRO News when she was a student at Brown University of Professor Hilary Levey Friedman

Fiddlers Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy performed at the Rhythm and Roots Festival in Charlestown https://www.natalieanddonnell.com/ http://www.rhythmandroots.com/

Gabriela Domenzain of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University talks about the Trump administration's #DACA immigration policy change @LPIRWU

Raymond "Two Hawks" Watson, a spokesman, explains why members of the Pokanoket Tribe occupied land in Bristol owned by Brown University. They claim that the former Haffenreffer property is part of their ancestral lands.

Diane Santurri at Johnson & Wales University talks about keeping children safe on social media

Francesca Spidalieri from the Pell Center at Salve Regina University talks about the lessons that we've learned about hacking the 2016 election

Mt. Joy offered a high energy set and fun interview at the 2017 Newport Folk Festival http://www.mtjoyband.com/

The Seratones from Shreveport, Louisiana rocked the 2017 Newport Folk Festival with a memorable set and backstage interview http://www.seratones.band/

Newport - based singer Bill Bartholomew performed on the "Museum Stage" at the 2017 Newport Folk Festival. He is also part of the local band, "Silverteeth" https://www.facebook.com/william.bartholomew

Kim Kalunian, filling in for Steve Klamkin, discusses the Michelle Carter and Christian Lepore cases with Roger Williams University Law School Dean Michael Yelnosky .

Kim Kalunian, filling in for Steve Klamkin, talks with Caroline Stevens about DoorsOpenRI.org.

Mike Ritz joins Steve Klamkin to discuss new signage at Rocky Point park.

Yonty Friesem of Central Connecticut State University joins Steve Klamkin to discuss "Arresting Knowledge" a media literacy event they will both be participating in on Sunday at AS220

Richard Asinof joins Steve Klamkin and discuses diseases of despair causing high death rates in RI.

Dr. Steven Toms of Rhode Island Hospital and the Lifespan Cancer Institute joins Steve Klamkin to discuss Senator John McCain's brain cancer diagnosis

Janet Coit Director of the RI Department of Environmental Management