Quincy news, meetings, weather, and civic life.
AM Quincy keeps close watch on the practical machinery of Quincy. News updates sit alongside plain-spoken conversations with local officials, city staff, and local organizations about budgets, licenses, road money, school issues, river cleanup, weather, and weekend logistics.
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AM Quincy is a daily local news and civic conversation show built around Quincy. Its center of gravity is practical information. A typical stretch can move from a grocery store planned for Quincy Center to a police assault allegation, then on to weather, tides, Boston Marathon traffic, Red Sox timing, and Patriots Day crowds. The show also makes room for longer check-ins. Those conversations give local government and community work a slower, more useful shape than a headline can carry.
Joe Catalano is the recurring voice in the excerpts, reading AM Quincy news updates and steering interviews with public officials, city staff, and nonprofit guests. The tone is direct. It favors names, dates, locations, meeting outcomes, dollar figures, and what happens next. Rep. Tackey Chan’s appearances, called Taki Talk or Tacky Thursday in the excerpts, bring state process back to Quincy concerns, including budget amendments, Chapter 90 local aid, bridge funding, school cell phone policy, and why emergency road money matters even when Quincy is spared the worst damage. These segments are policy-heavy but conversational, with room for weather, yard work, and unscripted detours.
City business gets similar treatment. Nicole Crispo walks through licensing requests for concerts, Kids Fest, patriotic celebrations, food trucks, tree lighting, and FIFA-related events. Anne Mahoney discusses financial safeguards, transparency, one-time revenues, debt, grants, and what the City Council should know before budget decisions. The show also gives space to civic and environmental groups, including Ian Cook and Mayor Khanna of the Neponset River Watershed Association, who explain river cleanup, trash, runoff, education programs, and volunteer work across the watershed.
AM Quincy is not a broad politics show with occasional local color. It is Quincy-first. That focus makes it especially useful for residents, city watchers, volunteers, parents, commuters, and anyone who wants to understand the daily flow of municipal decisions before they become background facts.
Made for: AM Quincy is for Quincy residents, local government watchers, commuters, parents, volunteers, and anyone who wants city-level news with names, dates, and practical detail.
What sets it apart: Its strength is its narrow local focus: city meetings, licenses, development, school issues, weather, traffic, nonprofit work, and state decisions are all filtered through what they mean for Quincy.
AM Quincy is a live audio show that can be heard Monday-Friday, 7am to 9am on QATV-8 (Quincy Access Television, Quincy, Massachusetts) and QATV.org. AM Quincy features news, weather, traffic and music to get your day started. Hosted by QATV's Joe Catalano, the program also features interview segments with non-profit agency representatives, local politicians, directors from various City of Quincy departments and other individuals representing a myriad of topics and groups. AM Quincy is the only locally produced, daily show covering news and events in the City of Quincy.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
AM Quincy connects state policy and community work to the practical consequences residents can see around Quincy.
AM Quincy keeps local public life conversational, with Joe Catalano asking guests to explain how decisions and community work operate in practice.
Joe Catalano gets your civic questions past slogans and down to ballots, bridges, and bottle caps.
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A spring cleanup shows Quincy neighbors how litter left on land can reach the Neponset River.
The Neponset River starts in Foxboro near Gillette Stadium, with Quincy at its downstream end. The Watershed Association works to protect it across 14 cities and towns.
Taki Chan discusses Quincy's road funding and the emergency repairs a state budget may need to cover.
Quincy's roads and bridges give State Representative Taki Chan a concrete way to talk about the state budget. He checks in the day after the House budget is released, with amendments due Friday at 5 p.m.
A Quincy legislator questions a statewide school cellphone rule in his weekly check-in with Joe.
State Representative Tacky Chan has a practical objection to a proposed statewide school cellphone rule: school committees and superintendents can already make their own policies. In this weekly Quincy check-in with host Joe, he says Quincy has begun that process.
Chan discusses state authority, town clerks and mail-in ballots before a question about online voting.
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Tacky Chan discusses documenting ICE encounters and access to an attorney for people in county custody.
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State Representative Taki Chan of Quincy says the House Ways and Means budget is $63.3 billion, only $33 million below the governor's recommendation, while amendment deadlines hit Friday at 5 p.m.
AM Quincy News reports on declining football participation at North Quincy High School, threatening the Thanksgiving Day rivalry game, and updates on Squantum Elementary School's net-zero building status.
AM Quincy interviews Neponset River Watershed Association Executive Director Ian Cook and Environmental Science Fellow Mayor Khanna about the Neponset River and its April 25 cleanup.
A local news update covering a new Trader Joe's and Chipotle coming to Quincy Center, a health care center development, and an assault on an MBTA police officer.
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Quincy City Clerk Nicole Crispo discusses upcoming events approved for one-day liquor licenses at the Board of Licensed Commissioners meeting.
Quincy City Council President Anne Mahoney discusses a financial transparency ordinance and concerns about using one-time revenues to lower taxes.
Tacky Chan says the House vote on social media age verification is about privacy, not a simple "liquor store" ID check.
Sean Glennon and Rhiannon Gorham from the Quincy Planning Department discuss the upcoming Community Development Week, highlighting the history and impact of the Community Development Block Grant program in Quincy.
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