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Biraland, a musical comedy about the natural world, premieres July 31
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- Biraland, a musical comedy about the natural world, premieres July 31
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- 10 months ago
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- A musical comedy about the natural world and our connection to it, Biraland features a host of wacky characters, catchy original music and wild effects — all conceived of and performed by Vermont creator Bira Vanara.
The first episodes drop on Thursday, only on YouTube.
Subscribe: https://youtube.com/@VermontPublic?feature=shared
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- Vermont’s new climate plan enters a challenging political landscape
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- 10 months ago
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- Amid a tumultuous federal landscape for climate policy, Vermont’s Climate Council has adopted a new Climate Action Plan.
The document is a roadmap for how the state can comply with its statutory commitment to reduce climate warming greenhouse gas emissions in the next four years.
Read more: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-07-01/vermonts-new-climate-plan-enters-a-challenging-political-landscape
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- Thousands of Vermonters will see federal food benefits eliminated or reduced
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- 10 months ago
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- The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program supplies the vast majority of food aid in Vermont, where about 65,000 residents received $155 million in benefits last year.
Watch Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-07-25/detained-superintendent-food-benefits-slashed-burlington-meal-program-pushback
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- Border agents detained a Vermont superintendent and searched his devices
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- 10 months ago
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- Winooski School District Superintendent Wilmer Chavarria was detained and interrogated at a Texas airport this week while returning to Vermont from a trip to Nicaragua with his spouse.
Watch Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-07-25/detained-superintendent-food-benefits-slashed-burlington-meal-program-pushback
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- Why did border agents detain a Vermont superintendent?
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- 10 months ago
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- A Vermont superintendent is left reeling this week, after border agents at a Texas port of entry detained him for several hours and searched his devices. Plus, thousands of Vermonters will see federal food benefits eliminated or reduced. And a free food distribution program faces pushback in Burlington.
This week's panel:
Mitch Wertlieb - Moderator, Vermont Public
Peter Hirschfeld - Vermont Public
Sasha Goldstein - Seven Days
Laura Ullman - WCAX
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- Go Green!
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- 10 months ago
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- A visit with fans of the Vermont Green football club as they prepare for a first ever appearance in the USL League Two eastern conference finals against Lionsbridge. Plus, Sen. Welch floats legislation exempting small businesses from Trump administration tariffs, revenues from Vermont’s lottery games have declined over the past year, South Burlington’s school superintendent has resigned following months of tension with the city’s Educators’ Association, and we consider the wild week the Boston Red Sox had coming out of Major League Baseball’s all-star break in our weekly sports report.
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- Recent cuts at Vermont hospitals could be just the beginning
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- 10 months ago
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- In Vermont, state officials and hospital leaders are under enormous pressure to reduce health care costs as fast as possible.
By law, they need to cut over $100 million in hospital spending next year — and they’ve set a goal of cutting costs by twice that amount before the year’s end.
Read more: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-07-09/state-backs-rural-birthing-center-closure-warns-more-difficult-decisions
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- Remembering Robert Resnik and a new treatment center in Bennington
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- 10 months ago
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- For 29 years, Robert Resnik celebrated folk and world music as the host of the Vermont Public music show All the Traditions. He passed away earlier this week.
Through his show, he elevated local musicians and introduced listeners to new sounds and styles. He was also a musician himself and played more than two dozen instruments. We’ll share memories with friends, fellow musicians, and our listeners.
Then: A new addiction treatment clinic has opened in Bennington.We’ll talk with Vermont’s deputy health commissioner about how this clinic fits into the state’s hub and spoke system.
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- What did the sale of the Lake Monsters mean for Vermont baseball? (Encore)
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- 10 months ago
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- July in Vermont means hot dogs and peanuts and Cracker Jacks… and summer baseball. A few summers ago, reporter Liam Elder-Connors joined question-asker Emma Ramirez-Richer in the stands at Centennial Field to share some Dippin’ Dots, root for the Lake Monsters and chat with fans about Emma’s winning question. The team had just been sold the year before and Emma wanted to know:
“What does the sale of the Vermont Lake Monsters mean for the team, and what does minor league baseball mean to Vermonters?”
We’re revisiting that episode this baseball season.
Find the web version of this episode here (https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/2025-07-24/what-did-the-sale-of-the-lake-monsters-mean-for-vermont-baseball) .
This episode was reported by Liam Elder-Connors and prod...
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- Eagle family stuns on Lake Carmi nest cam, six years running
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- 10 months ago
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- For one family of eagles on Lake Carmi, life on camera is the norm. And like the stars of any reality show, so too is drama — from prowling bobcats, to squabbles between siblings and feasts of catfish.
When Rick Willever, who owns a camp on Lake Carmi, set the camera up six years ago, he wasn’t sure what he’d find.
Read: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-07-22/eagle-cam-lake-carmi-nest-6-years
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- The bites of summer
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- 10 months ago
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- Visiting some Vermont towns that are dealing this summer with a higher than usual infestation of deer flies. Plus, Vermont’s Secretary of State warns federal budget cuts will make election systems here more vulnerable to foreign cyber attacks, the Superintendent of Winooski schools returns to Vermont after being detained by immigration agents this week, long time state journalist and historian Steve Terry has died, and a camera perched on an island at Lake Carmi is tracking the development of an eaglet nest.
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- Congress eliminated funding for Public Media! Help us secure future of Vermont Public for all.
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- 10 months ago
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- Give now to ensure everyone in our community can continue to access essential and trusted information.
https://donate.vermontpublic.org/
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- Vermont state symbols and how they came to be
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- 10 months ago
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- Vermont state symbols and how they came to be
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- Remembering Robert
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- 10 months ago
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- Recalling the life and legacy of All the Traditions host Robert Resnik, who passed away this week at the age of 72. Plus, Sen. Sanders says he’ll work with senate colleagues to try and mitigate the cuts made to various health care services in the recently passed federal budget bill, an asylum seeker living in Colchester was allowed to return to his Vermont home after checking in with ICE officials but must meet with them again in the fall, St. Michael’s College uses grant money to create a new emergency service program, and a new book chronicles the unique devotion some fans lavish on jam bands like Vermont’s own Phish.
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- The jam band explosion of the 90s and beyond
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- 10 months ago
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- Love 'em or hate 'em, jam bands have infiltrated our culture and forever changed the music industry. There’s the Grateful Dead and Phish, but also Widespread Panic, The String Cheese Incident, and The Dave Matthews Band.
Author Mike Ayers joins Mikaela to talk about his new oral history which chronicles the rise of the jam band genre in the 1990s, and the culture that surrounded them. It's called "Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the 90s Jam Band Explosion and the Scene that Followed." (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250287458/sharinginthegroove/) We talk about some of the biggest jam bands to come out of this region, and remember some of the most iconic local concerts. Mike Ayers is a veteran music journalist, and he’s been to more than 20 Grateful Dead shows and 130 Phish shows.
Broadcast live on Tuesday July 22, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
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- Staying and coping
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- 10 months ago
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- A migrant worker from Mexico who’s been in Vermont for nearly two decades explains his reasons for staying and working in the state even as the Trump administration ramps up its deportation agenda. Plus, a loss of grant funding threatens a Rutland organization that serves needy people more than 150 meals a day, Vermont’s first restrictions on neonic pesticides go into effect, after an initial funding freeze Vermont schools will be able to access more than 6 million dollars for summer and after school programs, and music lovers throughout Vermont mourn the death of long-time folk and world music host Robert Resnik.
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- Sen. Bernie Sanders responds to FEMA cuts
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- 10 months ago
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- U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders says he’s working to undo key aspects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which he called, “the worst and most destructive piece of legislation in the modern history of this country.”
Read: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-07-21/bernie-sanders-big-beautiful-bill-most-destructive-legislation-modern-u-s-history
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- Neonics ban goes into effect
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- 10 months ago
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- Last year, Vermont became just the second state in the nation to ban a type of pesticides called neonicotinoids. Now, that ban is going into effect.
Many farmers use these treated seeds to keep pests away, but pollutes water and hurts fragile pollinator populations, like honey bees. The Vermont state government is in charge of enforcing this ban. It also has a role in determining exemptions. Who still gets to use neonics, and under what conditions? We’ll hear how the state is making those choices, using information from local farms. We’ll also learn about other neonics restrictions in Quebec and New York.
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- The Blank Page Cafe
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- 10 months ago
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- We visit the Blank Page Cafe which has been serving breakfast tacos, gluten-free treats and coffee in Shelburne for nearly a decade. Plus, Essex town officials deny local approval for an Amazon distribution facility, Montpelier town officials order the removal of a homeless encampment near the downtown bus station, the Winooski-Burlington bridge projects gets federal money, and two local organizations that help people with disabilities enjoy year-round sports and outdoor recreation will merge.
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- Since the historic floods of 2023, few Vermont residents have buyout money in hand
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- 10 months ago
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- After historic flooding swept through Vermont in 2023 and 2024, hundreds of property owners applied for buyouts to try and get compensated for homes and businesses they would likely struggle to sell.
Vanishingly few have happened yet.
Watch Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-07-18/in-review-fema-buyouts-gmts-decline-montpelier-homeless-encampment
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- Green Mountain Transit sees fewer passengers, reduced schedules and soaring costs
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- 10 months ago
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- Green Mountain Transit is searching for it's "soul," Seven Days' Derek Brouwer reported this week, as the transit authority manages fewer passengers, reduced schedules and soaring costs.
Watch Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-07-18/in-review-fema-buyouts-gmts-decline-montpelier-homeless-encampment
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- How can the state best support homeless Vermonters?
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- 10 months ago
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- Municipalities and service providers are struggling to support a growing number of homeless Vermonters. Plus, hundreds of property owners are still waiting for FEMA buyout money. And Green Mountain Transit faces challenges as it looks to the future.
This week's panel:
Mitch Wertlieb - Moderator, Vermont Public
Calvin Cutler - WCAX
Carly Berlin - Vermont Public/VTDigger
Derek Brouwer - Seven Days
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- Dance of the fireflies
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- 10 months ago
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- Visiting a natural nighttime light show produced by New England fireflies. Plus, Vermont joins a multi-state lawsuit suing the Trump administration for canceling a program that helps towns prepare for natural disasters, the state learns federal money for tobacco control efforts may be coming soon after fearing it was lost, Quebec officials add more than 500 Million dollars to the province's education budget for the upcoming school year, a sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls hosts a Canadian artist-in-residence, and our weekly sports report focuses on baseball’s annual all-star game and the ESPY award earned by Vermonter and rugby champion Ilona Maher.
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- Making movies in Vermont
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- 10 months ago
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- To make a feature film, you don’t have to move to Hollywood. It might take a little more resourcefulness, but you can do it right here in our region.
Three local film professionals join Vermont Edition to talk about their latest projects: Chad Ervin, president of the Vermont Production Collective and director of the documentary Gone Guys (https://goneguysfilm.com/) ; Emma Schlenoff, producer of The Obelisk (https://the-obelisk.com/) and a Vermont Production Collective board member; and Alexey Hartlieb-Shea, who co-wrote The Obelisk and stars in it.
Then; Shelburne Museum in Chittenden County celebrates a wide range of American art. If you visit, you’ll find everything from a round barn full of circus-themed figurines, to a Ticonderoga steamboat permanently beached on a green field. Through the end of October, you can also visit the exhibition “Making a Noise: Indigenous Sound Art.” (https://shelburnemuseum.org/exhibition/making-a-noise/) The p...
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- More FEMA hurdles
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- 10 months ago
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- The new hurdles that may have to be cleared by Vermont homeowners hit by flooding and hoping for a buyout from FEMA. Plus, Londonderry residents will vote on whether to green-light new restrictions on short-term rentals, plans are underway in Putney to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Landmark College, for a second consecutive year a record was set for the amount of unclaimed money returned to Vermonters, and a rally is held at the New Hampshire Statehouse in support of local farmers impacted by cuts to federal farming grants.
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- Alternative approaches to education, from pre-k to college
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- 10 months ago
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- Many longtime educators understand that the traditional one-size-fits-all approach to teaching is not always effective. There are different types of learners with unique needs.
Landmark College (https://www.landmark.edu/?utm_campaign=bglandmark&utm_medium=googleads&utm_source=paidsearch&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20628104797&gclid=Cj0KCQjwm93DBhD_ARIsADR_DjH7sIWLABsoE8LE844swYgppq9EOviCRVZbrO7d-gXEa__wd5jA0tkaAicAEALw_wcB) in Putney is designed for students who learn differently, like those with dyslexia, autism, or ADHD. The college marks its 40th anniversary this fall, and its new president Jim Dlugos is optimistic about its future.
The Willowell Foundation (https://www.willowell.org/) runs outdoor learning programs in Addison County that let young students chart their own paths. Founder and executive director Matt Schlien discusses his efforts to revive the Walden Project, a high school program focused on ecology, wellness, civic engagement...
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- Vermont's high health care costs w/ UVM Health Network CEO Sunny Eappen
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- 10 months ago
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- Sunil "Sunny" Eappen is the president and CEO of the University of Vermont Health Network. It’s the largest hospital system in Vermont, where health insurance premiums are among the highest in the country. We talk with Dr. Eappen about why that is, and the role hospitals play in setting health care costs. He also discusses how he’s thinking about the hospital system’s budget for the coming year.
https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-07-15/uvm-health-network-ceo-sunny-eappen-on-hospital-spending
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- Threats to Food Benefits for Vermonters
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- 10 months ago
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- Thousands of Vermonters could lose their federal food benefits. That’s due to federal changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Plus, the state is offering to help homeowners repair septic systems, the head of the U-V-M Health Network talks efforts to reduce spending and there’s a new resource for families of L-G-B-T-Q+ youth.
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- How do you pronounce Topsham, Vermont?
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- 10 months ago
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- There’s no “ham” — and certainly no “sham” — in Topsham.
Topsham locals teach us how to say their town’s oft-mispronounced name.
Let us know in the comments where we should go next.
Thanks to Samantha, Bruce Marchant, Wayne Williams Jr., Steve Israel, Matt Wadsworth and Christine Komer.
📽️ Filming & editing by David Littlefield and Kaylee Mumford
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- An estimated 45,000 Vermonters will lose health insurance under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
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- 10 months ago
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- Vermont Edition sat down with University of Vermont Health Network CEO Sunny Eappen on Tuesday.
We talk with Dr. Eappen about why the state's largest hospital system has some of the highest insurance premiums in the country, and the role hospitals play in setting health care costs.
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- UVM Health Network CEO Sunil "Sunny" Eappen
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- 10 months ago
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- Sunil "Sunny" Eappen is the president and CEO of the University of Vermont Health Network. It’s the largest hospital system in Vermont where health insurance premiums are among the highest in the country. We talk with Dr. Eappen about why that is, and the role hospitals play in setting health care costs. He also discusses how he’s thinking about the hospital system’s budget for the coming year.
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- Emergency Department Go-Bags for Seniors
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- 10 months ago
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- Nearly one-quarter of emergency department visits among patients 60-and-older nationally resulted in a hospital stay. A Rutland man, worried about his widowed father, made an emergency hospital go-bag for his dad, and experts say more of us should have them. Plus, budget cuts have prompted layoffs at the Vermont Foodbank, areas of Montreal are recovering from flooding, and people who work with refugees and asylum seekers in Vermont are struggling to keep up with recent changes to federal immigration laws.
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- Public Media - but make it Vermont!
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- 10 months ago
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- Learn more at https://www.vermontpublic.org/
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- How Trump's travel ban affects Vermonters
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- 10 months ago
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- President Trump’s new travel ban is in effect. For a month now, people from 12 countries have been barred from entering the U.S., including Afghanistan, Burma and Eritrea. Seven other countries are partially banned, and the President has floated the idea of banning several more.
We’ll hear how the travel ban affects refugees, green card holders, international students and others in our region. joined from Brattleboro by Joe Wiah, director of the Ethiopian Community Development Council, a refugee resettlement agency in Brattleboeo, Tracy Dolan, the director of Vermont’s state refugee office, and Kristen Connors, an immigration attorney at Montroll, Oettinger and Barquist in Burlington
Plus: The Mexican consulate recently set up a mobile location in Brattleboro. We’ll hear from a Mexican farmworker living in Vermont amid the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown.
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- Toy story
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- 10 months ago
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- Speaking with the owners of a popular toy store that’s about to close after two decades of operation in Waterbury Village. Plus, flash floods late last week destroyed homes and did severe damage in the Northeast Kingdom and Addison County, Sen. Welch introduces a bill he says would decentralize FEMA operations and streamline the disaster recovery agency, a New Hampshire man who took part in the January 6th riots at the US Capitol wants to reject president Trump’s pardon, and a Vergennes state representative hopes to pass legislation calling for all campaign ads to disclose when Artificial Intelligence has been used.
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- Vermont prison brings the wrong incarcerated man to hearing
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- 10 months ago
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- “The incident comes amid growing concerns over the use of Vermont prisons as holding grounds for immigration detainees,” Seven Days’ Colin Flanders reported this week.
Watch: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-07-11/in-review-flash-flooding-ice-in-vermont-prisons-howard-center-cuts
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- Flooded again, Sutton residents return to damaged homes
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- 10 months ago
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- State officials say Caledonia County appears to have suffered the worst damage from Thursday’s flash floods. And nowhere took a harder beating than the small town of Sutton, where multiple homes were severely damaged or destroyed.
Read: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-07-11/flooded-again-sutton-residents-return-to-damaged-homes
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- Federal detainments in Vermont prisons causing strain
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- 10 months ago
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- Heavy thunderstorms have led to flash flooding in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom and Addison County, resulting in washed-out roads and at least one swiftwater rescue. Plus, an increased reliance on Vermont’s prisons by federal immigration authorities is causing strain. And the state’s largest social service provider announces program cuts and layoffs.
This week's panel:
Mitch Wertlieb - Moderator, Vermont Public
Colin Flanders - Seven Days
Lexi Krupp - Vermont Public
Ethan Weinstein - VTDigger
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- FEMA’s future
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- 10 months ago
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- Why disaster recovery officials in Vermont are worried about the federal government's future plans for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Plus, Vermont state officials say they support the closing of Copley Hospital’s birthing center as a cost-saving measure, Sen. Bernie Sanders decries the changes to Medicaid in the recently passed federal budget bill, Gov. Scott makes three new leadership appointments, the Deerfield Valley News has a new owner, and we ponder whether the Boston Red Sox should trade one of their hot-hitting outfielders for pitching help in our weekly sports report.
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- How will FEMA show up in Vermont when the next disaster hits?
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- 10 months ago
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- The Trump administration wants states to assume a bigger role in disaster response and recovery. The ambiguity over what that looks like has complicated the task of state officials trying to gird for the next catastrophe.
Read the story at vermontpublic.org
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- The art of the local jingle
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- 10 months ago
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- A good jingle is short, catchy and teaches you a business name or phone number that you can't get out of your head — maybe even for years.
This hour we celebrate the art of the local jingle. We from some jingle writers who have written some legendary earworms. Jim Giberty is based in Bethel and wrote ads for local ski areas, as well as some broader New England gems, most notable, The Lobster Claw in Cape Cod. Cary Reich is based in Florida, but penned songs for Pizza Putt and Wendell's Furniture that will be familiar to longtime Vermonters. And we hear from Daisy Nell, a folk musician who has just so happened to have her songs become local jingles - her most famous being from the 1980s for the Snowsville General Store.
Broadcast live on Thursday, July 10, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
Have questions, comments or tips? Send us a message (https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-editionmailto:vermontedition@vermontp...
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- Is it time for a new Vermont state flag?
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- 10 months ago
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- Close your eyes and try to picture the Vermont flag…
If you’re drawing a blank — you're not alone.
Our flag defies almost all the flag design rules set out by the North American Vexillological Association.
That’s part of the reason why Brian Sewell, of Burlington, thinks Vermont should consider an upgrade. He asked:
“Other states are undergoing redesigns of their state flags. How much do Vermonters know about our flag? And is it time to update ours too?”
Have an idea for a new Vermont flag design? Check out our web post (https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/2025-07-10/other-states-are-redesigning-their-flags-is-it-vermonts-turn) for a template and instructions to submit it to the show — we’ll post our favorites! We’ve also included question-asker Brian’s proposed redesign as inspiration.
For more on flag design, check out thi...
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- Building protection
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- 10 months ago
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- The difficulty in finding ways to protect state public buildings from the next big flood event. Plus, despite passage of a new state education reform law there’s confusion over which private schools can still access public funds, a state trooper is on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into the shooting death of a man in Putney, the Howard Center announces cuts to programs in Burlington and St. Albans due to several years of financial losses, and the Vermont Green FC soccer club remains undefeated after a win over Albany.
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- Scientists try to restore American chestnut trees to the northeast
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- 10 months ago
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- Scientists try to restore American chestnut trees to the northeast
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- ‘We had such dreams for this place’
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- 10 months ago
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- A Plainfield couple whose home was severely damaged by flooding two years in a row anxiously await news on whether they’ll get a FEMA buyout for the home they can't stay in. Plus, Gov. Scott’s administration starts a review of the newly passed federal budget bill to assess its impact on Vermont, the health department seeks to open three new methadone clinics in communities outside the state’s Hub and Spoke treatment system, Sen. Welch meets with Vermonters impacted by flooding from the past two years, and the federal budget bill makes cuts to flood research funding at the University of Vermont.
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- Vermont marks the anniversary of the 2023 and 2024 summer floods
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- 10 months ago
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- Vermont marks the anniversary of the 2023 and 2024 summer floods
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- Multiple challenges
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- 10 months ago
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- Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark discusses why her office has joined numerous multi-state lawsuits challenging executive orders issued by president Trump. Plus, Vermont officials urge residents to sign up for the state’s emergency notification system following recent deadly floods in Texas, former Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin joins the board of a national cannabis company, suggestions for what to do if baby bats have been born inside the walls or other spaces of a house, and Windsor county residents should expect delays as work is done to replace a bridge in Jericho.
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- Improving the Vermont legislature's ethics enforcement
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- 10 months ago
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- State Senators Seth Bongartz (D-Bennington) and Scott Beck (R-Caledonia) are the subject of an ethics complaint (https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-06-30/ethics-complaint-targets-2-vermont-senators-with-private-school-ties) that alleges their ties to independent schools influenced their work on Vermont's big education reform bill.
Vermont Public reporter Lola Duffort has been closely following the education reform process and this ethics complaint.
We also explore the process of investigating alleged ethical violations, such as conflicts of interest and other financial entanglements that could influence lawmaking. We speak with the executive director of the Vermont State Ethics Commission, Christina Sivret, and members of the House and Senate ethics committees, Rep. Martin LaLonde (D-South Burlington), and Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky, (P/D-Chittenden Central).
Broadcast live on Monday, July 7, 2025, at noon; rebroadcas...
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- What Class Are You: Susan Ritz
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- 10 months ago
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- In the latest installment of our periodic series on class, we speak with writer and philanthropist Susan Ritz about the mixed blessings of being born into a wealthy family. Plus, Vermont’s Attorney General explains why she felt it was important to join other states making legal challenges to the actions of the Trump administration, Vermont health officials say there won’t be much impact from a recent change to federal flu vaccine policy, Montreal’s new biweekly trash pick-up policy is reportedly drawing complaints from people in some neighborhoods, a new study shows snowpack that lingers into summer could protect some plant communities on Mount Washington from certain climate change effects, and we assess some of the hockey moves made and not made by teams entering the free agent signing frenzy in our weekly sports report.
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- For Vermont AG Charity Clark, the rule of law is 'the bottom line'
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- 10 months ago
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- On this episode of Vermont This Week: A conversation with Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark.
Watch: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week
