Vermont Public
Vermont AG Charity Clark on suing the Trump administration
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- Vermont AG Charity Clark on suing the Trump administration
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- 10 months ago
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- Democratic state attorneys general, including Vermont’s Charity Clark, have acted quickly and in lockstep to challenge a number of Trump administration policies, including issues related to birthright citizenship, funding freezes and cuts, the dismantling of government agencies, and the president's executive orders.
Watch Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week
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- A conversation with Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark
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- 10 months ago
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- On a special edition of Vermont This Week, we sit down for a conversation with Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark.
This week's panel:
Mitch Wertlieb - Moderator, Vermont Public
Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark
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- What Class Are You: Kytreana Patrick
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- 11 months ago
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- In the latest installment of our periodic series on class, we welcome back Kytreana Patrick from our initial series of interviews to talk about the birth of her first child and her new job. Plus, Vermont’s climate council approves a new plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, animal welfare officials provide tips for keeping pets safe and calm during 4th of July celebrations, Burlington launches a free overnight parking policy for people experiencing homelessness, and Rutland officials make moves toward cracking down on feeding birds and other wild animals in public.
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- The snack bars of Vermont
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- 11 months ago
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- Who wants to turn on the stove and cook dinner this time of year when you could stop by a local snack bar instead? Eating out at these seasonal restaurants is a beloved summer tradition in our region.
Seven Days food writer and editor Melissa Pasanen shares some of her favorite snack menu items, like the smash burgers from Gondola's Snack Bar in Morristown and the hand cut fries at Green Meadows Grill in Williston. We also talk with local snack bar owners: Marilyn Kozlowski of Joe's Snack Bar in Jericho, Jason Boutin of Cajun's Snack Bar in Lowell, Jon Villeneuve of Kate's Food Truck in Jericho, and Josh Butler of Village Snack Bar in Rutland.
Broadcast live on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
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- What Class Are You: Dan Sedon
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- 11 months ago
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- In the latest installment of our periodic series on class, Dan Sedon discusses what working as a criminal defense attorney in Vermont has taught him about social and economic status. Plus, why both Vermont’s senators voted against the president’s mega-bill, Gov. Scott signs potentially historic education reform legislation but stresses a lot of work still needs to be done to reduce the number of state school districts, potential record-breaking holiday traffic is expected to congest roads around New England starting today, and a Brattleboro photographer wins The Vermont Prize for visual art made by a Vermont-based artist.
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- Why Erica Heilman asks "What Class Are You?"
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- 11 months ago
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- Of all the touchy topics there are to talk about, class might be the thorniest of all. Today on Vermont Edition: Vermont Public's Erica Heilman tells us about her ongoing series examining economic differences in Vermont. New stories in her series What Class Are You drop this week.
Then: we bring you a recent episode of the podcast Brave Little State/ Producer Burgess Brown explores what it’s like to get around Vermont and maintain a social life when you can no longer drive.
Broadcast live on Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
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- What Class Are You: Sharon Plumb
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- 11 months ago
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- In the latest installment of our periodic series on class we hear from Sharon Plumb of East Montpelier discussing parents who can support their children financially into adulthood. Plus, a new law increases the amount of money cottage food businesses can take in before having to apply for a commercial license, a warning is issued for algae blooms now that hotter temperatures are affecting regional waters, Vermont health officials say making recommendations for fall season COVID shots is complicated by a lack of direction from the federal government, and Windsor opens 25 new downtown affordable housing units.
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- How local communities are working to save their general stores
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- 11 months ago
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- How local communities are working to save their general stores
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- Coming of age — and coming out — in the time of civil unions
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- 11 months ago
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- July 1st, 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of civil unions in Vermont. This legal alternative to marriage was the first of its kind in the United States. In the Vermont Supreme Court case Baker v. Vermont (https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1141&context=jgspl) , the court ruled that the state had no legal basis to discriminate against same-sex couples. If the legislature would not allow same-sex couples to get marriage licenses, lawmakers would have to figure out a legal alternative. The result: civil unions.
Vermont Public's Andrea Laurion spoke with LGBTQ+ Vermonters who were coming of age — and coming out — when civil unions became legal. They were likely too young at the time to be thinking about marriage for themselves, but old enough to know what was going on and how it might affect them one day.
See photos and learn more at vermontpublic.org. (https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-06-30/civil-uni...
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- What Class Are You: Ralph Rockwell
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- 11 months ago
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- In the latest installment of our periodic series on class we hear from Ralph Rockwell in Wolcott. Plus, officials urge caution while swimming after three recent drownings, Vermont employment levels haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels, a bridge in Franklin County will be out of commission for the next two months, and why this is a great year for strawberries.
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- Copley Hospital to close its birthing center
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- 11 months ago
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- Copley Hospital in Morrisville is closing its birthing center, citing unsustainable long-term costs and declining birth rates across the region. The hospital trustees’ decision will leave Lamoille County without a place to give birth.
Watch: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-06-27/in-review-copley-birthing-center-education-reform-impacts-amazon-in-essex
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- Lamoille County is about to become a birth desert. What happens next?
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- 11 months ago
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- Expecting families in Lamoille County will have to travel farther to give birth. Plus, a look at the impact of education reform on independent schools. And the fight over Amazon in Essex.
This week's panel:
Cat Viglienzoni - Moderator, WCAX
Lola Duffort - Vermont Public
Aaron Calvin - Stowe Reporter/News & Citizen
Lexi Krupp - Vermont Public
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- Remembering Stan Baker
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- 11 months ago
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- A remembrance of Stan Baker, an LGBTQ activist who paved the way for marriage equality in Vermont. Plus, Copley Hospital announces the date it will close its birthing center, a new study finds the state’s ban on plastic bags has been successful, record breaking heat this week sets up potential blue-green algae blooms, and Vermont’s largest city approves a new budget.
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- Shopping for gender affirming clothing in Barre, Vermont
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- 11 months ago
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- Slowpoke Exchange — a buy-sell-trade shop for vintage and modern clothing in Barre — doesn’t separate items by gendered labels. That’s just one way the store aims to create a welcoming space for the queer community, co-owner Maddie Cobb says.
Listen: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-06-23/building-queer-community-across-vermont
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- The 25th anniversary of civil unions in Vermont
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- 11 months ago
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- July 1st, 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of civil unions in Vermont. This legal alternative to marriage was the first of its kind in the United States.
In the Vermont Supreme Court case Baker v. Vermont (https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1141&context=jgspl) , the court ruled that the state had no legal basis to discriminate against same-sex couples. If the legislature would not allow same-sex couples to get marriage licenses, lawmakers would have to figure out a legal alternative. The result: civil unions.
Stan Baker was the lead plaintiff on that case, alongside with his partner, Peter Harrigan, and two other couples. He died on Monday at the age of 79. We'll listen back to a 2019 interview he gave on Vermont Edition (https://www.vermontpublic.org/programs/2019-12-13/20-years-later-what-vermonts-baker-decision-did-for-lgbtq-rights) , and hear from Susan Murray of Burlington. She was one of the attorneys who rep...
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- Invasive beech leaf disease spreading throughout Vermont
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- 11 months ago
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- Beech leaf disease has spread to 43 Vermont towns in the last two years, and experts say the pests that cause it — microscopic worms called nematodes — could likely kill every beech tree in the state.
Read: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-06-24/scientists-expect-beech-leaf-disease-spread-throughout-vermont
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- No plans to retire
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- 11 months ago
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- Vermont cartoonist and writer Jeff Danziger has been skewering politicians and others in power for half a century and at 81, has no plans to retire. Plus, Vermont state lawmakers are considering ways to increase safety in the wake of the killing of a Minnesota state representative and her husband, climate scientists say several days of extreme heat earlier this week are a harbinger of what's to come due to climate change, Burlington’s City Council approved a new traffic pattern for a downtown street currently under construction, and the Fish and Wildlife Department is looking for Vermonters who want to go on a wild goose chase.
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- Four local poets discuss their craft
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- 11 months ago
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- Our region is home to celebrated poets from a wide variety of personal backgrounds. On this Vermont Edition, we revisit interviews with four local poets that we recorded in April to mark National Poetry Month.
Bianca Stone (https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-04-09/vermont-poet-laureate-bianca-stone-one-year-into-her-role) of Brandon reflects on her first year as Vermont’s poet laureate, Geof Hewitt (https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-04-17/calais-poet-geof-hewitt-on-the-benefits-of-a-daily-writing-practice) of Calais tells us about the roots of slam poetry, Alexandria Hall (https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-04-23/poet-alexandria-hall-harnesses-the-sounds-of-vermont-in-her-work) explains how she carries her Vergennes roots with her while living in California, and Sarah Audsley (https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-04-30/johnson-poet-sarah-audsley-on-upending-poetic-expectations)...
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- How do you pronounce Tinmouth, Vermont?
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- 11 months ago
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- Struggling to pronounce Tinmouth, Vermont? We’re here to help. And so is Tinmouth’s official town hugger (not joking).
Brave Little State's town pronunciation tour continues in Rutland County. Let us know in the comments where we should go next.
Thanks to Gail Fallar, Town Hugger Hollis Squier, Meadow Squier and Michael Fannin.
📽️ David Littlefield and Kaylee Mumford.
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- Remembering Dannemora
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- 11 months ago
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- A look back at the fraught three-week manhunt that took place in 2015 after two convicts escaped from the Dannemora prison in northern New York, not far from the Vermont border. Plus, Copley Hospital board members vote to close the Morrisville institution’s birthing center, a provision in the Trump tax bill before Congress could reduce the amount of money Vermont normally gets to help pay Medicaid expenses, employee-owned Gardener’s Supply files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the state’s unemployment rate remained steady last month, and a pioneer in Vermont’s fight for same-sex marriage rights has died.
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- What it's like being a first-term state lawmaker
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- 11 months ago
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- What it's like being a first-term state lawmaker
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- An unwanted worm
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- 11 months ago
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- Assessing the threat of a small invasive worm that’s capable of decimating Vermont’s beech trees. Plus, Vermonters will experience a second consecutive day of extreme heat today, a new opioid-use disorder treatment center opens in Bennington, a new executive director is named for the independent state board that oversees Vermont's health care system, Kinney Drugs is taking over former Ride Aid stores in Springfield and Brattleboro, and plans move ahead for Burlington to get a new independent movie theater.
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- Building queer community in Barre, Vermont
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- 11 months ago
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- Vermont Edition hosted a live panel discussion with LGBTQ+ business owners and organizers in Central Vermont who are trying to strengthen ties in Barre’s queer community.
Listen: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-06-23/building-queer-community-across-vermont
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- Barre's burgeoning queer community
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- 11 months ago
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- Building queer community can be incredibly hard, when you’re facing forces like bigotry or intolerance. It can also be hard when you live in a place like Vermont, where there just aren’t a whole ton of people.
Last week, our team went to The Barre Social Club to record a live panel discussion with Barre-area LGBTQ business owners and organizers who are trying to strengthen ties in Barre’s queer community and support vulnerable people there.
Our guests were; Liv Dunton of Fox Market and Bar (https://www.foxmarket.store/) in East Montpelier and Foxy’s (https://www.foxlife.space/) in Barre. Maddie Cobb is a co-owner of Slowpoke Exchange (https://slowpoke.exchange/) , a buy-sell-trade shop for vintage and modern clothing in Barre. Heather Ely is the executive director of the Rainbow Bridge Community Center in Barre (https://rainbowbridgevt.org/) - a nonprofit that provides support for vulnerable communities and a gathering space for connec...
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- Mapping microplastics
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- 11 months ago
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- Scientists and researchers try to find out where the harmful microplastics in Lake Champlain are coming from. Plus, economic challenges have forced about one third of small outdoor cannabis growers in Vermont to give up their licenses, a heat wave descending on the region today has utilities asking customers to conserve energy, state tax revenues fell well short of their predicted targets last month, Montpelier’s City Council will review its sanctuary city policies, and scientists and researchers who want to leave the US are being recruited in Montreal.
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- School district consolidation poses a concern for Vermont's rural communities
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- 11 months ago
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- Vermont’s landmark education reform bill, H.454, would enact a foundation formula through which the state — not local voters — controls the bulk of school spending, and it paves the way for wide-scale consolidation.
That’s a scary prospect for rural communities, Seven Days reporter Alison Novak says.
Watch: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-06-20/in-review-education-transformation-tax-credits-vergennes-juvenile-facility
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- Vermont lawmakers did not attempt a veto override this legislative session
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- 11 months ago
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- Last November, Republicans picked up more seats in the Vermont Legislature than they had in more than a decade, ending Democrats’ veto-proof majority.
This legislative session, lawmakers did not attempt to override any of Gov. Phil Scott's five vetoes.
Watch: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-06-20/in-review-education-transformation-tax-credits-vergennes-juvenile-facility
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- Will historic education reforms lead to property tax relief for Vermonters?
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- 11 months ago
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- Despite opposition from many Democrats and outrage from large swaths of the public education system, legislative leaders summoned enough votes this week to send a historic education reform package to Governor Phil Scott’s desk. Plus, a bill capping what Vermont health care providers can charge for outpatient prescription drugs becomes law. And Burlington temporarily renames Church Street as a show of support to our northern neighbors.
This week's panel:
Mitch Wertlieb - Moderator, Vermont Public
Calvin Cutler - WCAX
Alison Novak - Seven Days
Stephen Biddix - NBC5
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- Growing pains
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- 11 months ago
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- Why Vermont’s smaller retail cannabis businesses are not happy with a new bill that makes changes to the industry. Plus, Sen. Welch decries a section of the budget bill being considered by Congress that restricts the ability of states to regulate Artificial Intelligence, a Vermont aircraft manufacturer secures a partnership with Republic Airways for an all-electric plane, the number of Quebec homes located in flood zones will increase when new maps are introduced next year, a Vershire author’s new book explore pseudoscience and the public's eroding trust in institutions like government and media, and in our weekly sports report we delve into the shocking trade the Boston Red Sox made last week when they sent their best slugger and three-time all-star to the San Francisco Giants.
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- How are Vermonters staying social after they can no longer drive?
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- 11 months ago
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- Not being able to drive in this state can be isolating — especially for older Vermonters navigating the challenges of aging.
Ninety-two-year-old Gerry Quinlan has found a way, with a network of friends that can drive her to their weekly coffee dates in Essex.
But she’s wondering how others do it, so she came to us with this question:
"How do you maintain a social life in Vermont once you can no longer drive?"
Join us as we ride along with Gerry and others who have given up their keys, but not their communities and friendships.
For a full transcript of this episode and photos from our reporting, check out our web post (https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/2025-06-19/life-after-driving-vermonters-shift-gears-to-stay-social) .
This episode was reported by Burgess Brown. Editing and production from the rest of the BLS team: Sabine Poux and Josh ...
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- How Vermont's big education transformation will work
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- 11 months ago
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- Back in January, Gov. Phil Scott leveraged the gains his Republican party made in the last election to come out swinging, demanding that lawmakers send him a bill this year that would transform Vermont’s K-12 system.
On Monday, legislative leaders did what Scott asked them to do. The landmark, 155-page bill they sent to his desk, which he plans to sign, would fundamentally upend how our schools are funded and governed.
Read more: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-06-18/how-vermonts-big-education-transformation-will-work
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- Juneteenth celebrations and new books by local authors
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- 11 months ago
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- Communities across our region are hosting Juneteenth celebrations this year. The federal holiday marks the end of slavery in the United States and honors Black history and culture. South Burlington recreation specialist Kate Likhite and state Sen. Joe Major of Hartford tell us about their communities' Juneteenth events.
Then: two local authors share the stories behind their new books. In "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/matthew-hongoltz-hetling/the-ghost-lab/9781541703971/?lens=publicaffairs) ," Vershire's Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling explores the ties between pseudoscience and the erosion of trust in institutions like government and media. Mima Tipper, who lives in Waitsfield and South Hero, tells a story of travel, family and young love in her debut young adult novel, "Kat's Greek Summer (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Kats-Greek-Summer/Mima-Tipper/9781684633067) ."
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- Closure
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- 11 months ago
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- State lawmakers finally adjourn for the 2025 legislative session after working overtime to pass a sweeping education reform bill. Plus, Vermont agrees to the terms of a multi-state settlement with Purdue Pharma, the state health department plans to expand its partnerships with organizations that offer HIV testing, and a new historic marker will be unveiled in Weybridge to commemorate an openly same-sex couple who lived there in the 19th century.
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- The Arts that Shape Us #2: Tibetan Music and Dance
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- 11 months ago
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- For Tibetan-American artist Migmar Tsering, music and dance are inextricably linked to being Tibetan.
Migmar first learned traditional dance in the village of Langkor in the county of Tingri. He was born there almost 3 decades after the invasion of Tibet by communist China in 1950.
Since the 1950s, the Tibetan diaspora has expanded, with multiple groups of Tibetans relocating to India and later the U.S., Canada, Australia, and some European countries. Under the United States 1990 Immigration Act, 1,000 Tibetans living in exile in India, Nepal, and Bhutan were chosen via lottery to receive U.S. visas.
In 1993, Vermont became one of 25 resettlement sites in the U.S. Migmar arrived to Vermont in 2011 and soon began teaching traditional music and dance to kids in Vermont's Tibetan American community.
The Arts that Shape Us is a podcast by Vermont Folklife (https://www.vtfolklife.org/) , produced with support fr...
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- The Arts that Shape Us #1: Barre Stone Carvers
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- 11 months ago
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- Since at least the 1870s, people in central Vermont have cut, chiseled, hoisted, polished, and carved local granite, creating monuments, statues, and especially memorial grave markers. The granite industry brought Italian, French, Canadian, Scots, Scandinavian, Irish, Greek, and Spanish workers to the city of Barre, each bringing their own stone carving traditions.
Over time, these artisans and the manufacturers they worked for shaped an enduring identity: The Barre stone carver.
The Arts that Shape Us is a podcast by Vermont Folklife (https://www.vtfolklife.org/) , produced with support from Vermont Public's Made Here Fund (https://www.vermontpublic.org/made-here-fund) . Hosted by Mary Wesley, it’s devoted to exploring the state’s cultural heritage and what different local artforms say about the past and present of Vermont.
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- How Canadian wildfire smoke affects air quality – and your health
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- 11 months ago
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- More than 200 wildfires (https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/07/11/canada-wildfire-smoke-forests-landscape-change/) are currently burning in Canada. They are transforming forests, and becoming more intense and frequent due to climate change.
This hour we discuss how wildfires affect our landscapes, and how wildfire smoke affects air quality and our bodies. Our guests are David Grass, a senior environmental health manager at the Vermont Department of Health, and David Phillips, a Toronto-based climatologist emeritus with Environment and Climate Change Canada, a governmental agency.
This episode also includes an interview with Boston Globe correspondent Paul Heintz about recent ICE detentions (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/16/metro/border-patrol-detains-heidi-perez-nacho-de-la-crus-in-vermont/?event=event12) in Vermont, including an immigrant rights advocate and his 18-year-old stepdaughter.
Broadcast live on T...
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- Turning point
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- 11 months ago
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- A conversation with former state Representative Bill Lippert, whose impassioned advocacy for civil unions is credited with helping Vermont become the first state to legally recognize same sex partnerships. Plus, lawmakers pass a 14 million dollar tax relief package, Vermont’s Attorney General joins a multi-state lawsuit in support of a federally-paused national Job Corps program, downtown businesses in Burlington report a slow start to the summer tourism season, and Southeast Vermont Transit discontinues a Brattleboro bus route.
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- Navigating changes and challenges on Burlington's Church street
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- 11 months ago
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- Navigating changes and challenges on Burlington's Church street
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- Political climate change
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- 11 months ago
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- Why the current political climate might put efforts to expand ‘all resident voting’ on hold. Plus, Vermont’s L-G-B-T-Q community raises concerns about a broader age range of gender identity questions for patients using the UVM Health Network, Vermont joins a multi-state lawsuit suing the Trump Administration over efforts to revoke state rules that regulate pollution from vehicle emissions, Gov. Scott signs a new housing financing package bill into law, the Porter Medical Center in Vergennes prepares to conduct an emergency preparedness exercise, and Waterford residents seek answers after a recent fly infestation in town got so bad it forced many people indoors.
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- Herbalist Rosemary Gladstar says children have a near-universal connection with nature
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- 11 months ago
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- "It's one of the things, I think, that unites us as humanity, is our connection to the plants," herbalist Rosemary Gladstar says.
Listen: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-06-12/vermont-edition-at-home-rosemary-gladstar
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- Gov. Phil Scott approves bipartisan online safety legislation
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- 11 months ago
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- Gov. Phil Scott signed off on bipartisan legislation that would require technology companies to adjust certain product safety features for users under age 18.
Watch: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-06-13/in-review-motel-program-veto-housing-infrastructure-law-education-reform-deal
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- Thousands in Vermont turn out to protest Trump policies
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- 11 months ago
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- From a flash-mob in Bennington to a state-long relay up Route 7, Vermonters in more than 30 cities and towns turned out on Saturday for “No Kings Day.”
The group 50501 Vermont organized the actions as part of a nationwide protest of the Trump administration.
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- Gov. Phil Scott vetoes motel program overhaul
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- 11 months ago
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- Gov. Phil Scott vetoed a bill that would have overhauled Vermont’s homelessness response system, saying it does not adequately reduce the size or cost of the motel voucher program.
Watch: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-06-13/in-review-motel-program-veto-housing-infrastructure-law-education-reform-deal
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- Gov. Phil Scott says legislative leaders have reached a deal on education reform
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- 11 months ago
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- Legislative leaders have reached a deal on education reform, Gov. Phil Scott announced Friday afternoon. It remains unclear whether rank-and-file lawmakers will sign off on the compromise next week.
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- Have lawmakers done enough to address Vermont's housing crisis?
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- 11 months ago
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- Gov. Scott vetoes a bill that would have overhauled Vermont’s homelessness response system, saying it does not adequately reduce the size or cost of the motel voucher program. Plus, a new financing tool for housing infrastructure becomes law. And House and Senate negotiators appear to have struck a deal on a major education reform package, but will it satisfy the Governor?
This week's panel:
Mitch Wertlieb - Moderator, Vermont Public
Peter Hirschfeld - Vermont Public
Carly Berlin - Vermont Public/VTDigger
Austyn Gaffney - VTDigger
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- Swanton youth
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- 11 months ago
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- We visit Swanton’s recreation commission where a group of teens has created a variety of after-school activities. Plus, why rank and file lawmakers in Montpelier may not automatically sign off on an education reform bill even if party leaders come up with a compromise this week, Gov. Scott vetoes a bill that would have overhauled Vermont’s motel voucher program, regional co-op grocery stores have been unable to place orders after a cyber attack on a major supplier scuttled deliveries, the head of Hydro-Quebec has resigned, and we see signs of hope for the Boston Red Sox after consecutive series wins against inter-division rivals in our weekly sports report.
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- Herbalist Rosemary Gladstar is one with the plants
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- 11 months ago
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- Today on Vermont Edition: It's Rosemary Gladstar, the "godmother of American herbalism."
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- Vermont Edition At Home: Rosemary Gladstar
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- 11 months ago
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- Rosemary Gladstar (https://scienceandartofherbalism.com/) is said to be the Godmother of modern herbalism. In the latest installment of Vermont Edition At Home, Mikaela visited Gladstar at her house in Milton, Vermont. They discussed her roots in herbalism, from her childhood learning how to forage for food and medicine with her grandmother, to becoming the founder of a world renowned herbal retreat center in Vermont and founder of several companies. Mikaela was also treated to a tour of her herbal garden and heard about all of the medicinal and culinary uses of the many herbs Gladstar grows at home.
Broadcast live on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
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- Privacy protection
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- 11 months ago
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- Why Vermont lawmakers are struggling to come to agreement on a comprehensive data privacy bill. Plus, a state cannabis equity group is disappointed that Gov. Scott passed a bill they say doesn’t address the concerns of small growers, a wildlife crossing project gets put on hold, the state labor department launches a new workforce expansion program, and despite some setbacks Vermont ski areas saw growth this winter.
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- Novelist Tim Weed and hikes off the beaten path
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- 11 months ago
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- "The long term survival of life on earth has never really been in doubt...it's the survival of homo sapiens that has been in question." That stark reminder, or perhaps warning, comes from one of the central characters in the new novel by Vermont author Tim Weed called "The Afterlife Project."
Guest host Mitch Wertlieb speaks with the Putney-based writer about what inspired his book--which blends elements of climate fact with science fiction, telling a story that stretches from the not too distant future to a world that in ten thousand years is visited by one man who may or may not be the last surviving member of an otherwise wiped-out human race.
Plus, we'll discuss some of the better ways you can feel like the last person on earth by exploring great out-of-the-way wilderness hikes with Claire Polfus, a recreation program manager for the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation.
