Vermont Public
Animal Hour: Bats
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- Animal Hour: Bats
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- 1 year ago
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- They hang upside down, fly by night, and some of them drink blood?! Bats get a bad rap – but are they really as scary as they seem?
On today's Vermont Edition: Bats! It’s the latest installment of our March series, Animal Hour. Bats play a vital role in our ecosystems. But some species are endangered, and others are being threatened by disease. A small mammal biologist with Vermont Fish and Wildlife studies the bat species in our region. She’ll share fun facts about bats, and explain why they’re so important.
We’ll also talk with a bat rehabilitator and founder of the Vermont Bat Center. He’ll tell us how to help injured or orphaned, or trapped bats.
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- Cold shoulder
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- 1 year ago
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- How President Trump’s tariffs and aggressive rhetoric toward Canada are putting a serious political and social strain on the relationship between Vermont and Quebec. Plus, a rally in Montpelier calls for state-level protections of LGBTQ youth, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board considers a statewide ban on some commercial panfish, a journalism professor at Norwich University files a lawsuit alleging administrators pressured students to scrap stories putting the university in a bad light, customers of a genetic analysis firm are urged to protect their data after the company files for bankruptcy, and we move our weekly sports report up to Opening Day today for a preview of the 2025 MLB season.
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- Will there be a next chapter for the Vermont Marble Museum?
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- 1 year ago
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- Today on Vermont Edition: the history of the Vermont marble industry. Quarries around the state produced beautiful black, red, dark green and white marble. A Brandon historian will share stories of what it was like to work in a quarry, and the importance of marble to our region. We’ll also hear about the Marble Museum’s closure and the uncertain future of its collection, with the head of the Preservation Trust of Vermont.
Then: the annual Public Philosophy Week returns. Two local philosophy professors will tell us about upcoming philosophical lectures and mind-stimulating discussions around the state.
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- Dr. Mark Levine still feels good about Vermont's COVID-19 response
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- 1 year ago
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- Five years later, Dr. Mark Levine still feels good about Vermont's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The health commissioner sat down with Vermont Edition ahead of his retirement this month.
Watch or read more: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-03-25/5-years-after-covid-hit-dr-mark-levine-still-feels-good-about-vermonts-response
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- Dr. Mark Levine: Health commissioner reflects on Vermont's COVID response | Vermont Edition
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- 1 year ago
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- March marks the five-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine was a steadying force through the early days of the lockdown, a conduit of quickly evolving health guidance, and an advocate for the vaccine.
Gov. Phil Scott tapped Dr. Levine in 2017 to lead Vermont's Department of Health. As health commissioner, he provided guidance on public health concerns like opioid addiction, teen substance use, and respiratory viruses. He sat down with Vermont Edition ahead of his retirement at the end of March.
https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-03-25/vermonts-outgoing-health-commissioner-dr-mark-levine-looks-back-on-covid-and-his-career
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- Waste not
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- 1 year ago
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- New University of Vermont research explores the surprising link between whale pee and healthy ocean ecosystems. Plus, the Vermont House advances legislation that could limit the number of new retail cannabis shops, lawmakers also advance a midyear budget adjustment bill opposed by Gov. Scott, new Social Security rules could make it more difficult to access benefits, and Vermont libraries may see major impacts from federal funding cuts.
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- Vermont's Outgoing Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine on navigating the pandemic
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- 1 year ago
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- March marks the five-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine was a steadying force through the early days of the lock down, a conduit of quickly evolving health guidance, and an advocate for the vaccine.
Gov. Phil Scott tapped Dr. Levine in 2017 to lead Vermont's Department of Health. As health commissioner, he provided guidance on public health concerns like opioid addiction, teen substance use, and respiratory viruses. He sat down with Vermont Edition ahead of his retirement at the end of March.
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- New book captures oral histories of Vermonters during COVID-19 pandemic
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- 1 year ago
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- Through oral histories with more than a hundred state leaders, frontline workers and regular citizens, “Life Became Very Blurry,” preserves the stories of Vermonters during the historic COVID-19 pandemic.
Listen to Vermont Edition: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-03-24/historian-garrett-graff-reflects-on-the-early-covid-days
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- In bloom
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- 1 year ago
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- Learning how a Bristol tulip farm works, as workers gear up for the spring season. Plus, Vermont House lawmakers advance a midyear budget adjustment opposed by Gov. Scott, Brattleboro town meeting representatives reject a spending plan that would’ve raised taxes by more than 10 percent, an oral history surrounding the COVID pandemic in Vermont comes out today, and Burlington’s new interim police chief takes over.
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- Historian Garrett Graff reflects on the early COVID days
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- 1 year ago
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- A new book preserves the stories of Vermonters during the historic COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time, you can read oral histories of more than a hundred state leaders, frontline workers and regular citizens. It’s called Life Became Very Blurry, An Oral History of COVID-19 in Vermont (https://www.phoenixbooks.biz/life-became-very-blurry-oral-history-covid-19-vermont-garrett-m-graff-0) . The book illuminates the mindset of Vermonters during this unforgettable period in history, the way Vermont handled the epidemic, and how it reshaped the state. Its editor, Garrett Graff (https://www.garrettgraff.com/) , is a bestselling author and historian. He teamed up with field historians, including our guest Amanda Gustin (https://www.vermonthumanities.org/amanda-gustin/) of the the Vermont Historical Society, to collect and publish this new book.
Broadcast live on Monday, March 24, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
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- Debating history
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- 1 year ago
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- Commemorating the Westminster Massacre amid a debate over whether it really marked the first death of the American Revolution. Plus, U.S. Border Patrol officials are restricting Canadian visitor access to a library and opera house that straddles the international boundary, Amazon wants to build a distribution facility in Essex amid significant community pushback, Vermont’s public transit agencies are being asked to trim their budgets for next year, legislation that would change the mission at Efficiency Vermont draws Gov. Scott’s attention, and Brattleboro has a new fire chief.
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- ICE arrest rumors in Stowe
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- 1 year ago
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- Rumors of ICE arrests in Stowe may have been exaggerated, but anxiety around federal immigration authorities remains high. The Stowe Reporter's Aaron Calvin explains on the latest episode of Vermont This Week. Watch now at the link in our bio.
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- Bernie Sanders wants to 'force open the Democratic Party'
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- 1 year ago
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- Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to see "fundamental reform of the Democratic Party," he told Vermont Public's Bob Kinzel this week. Find the full interview:
https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-03-19/bernie-sanders-talks-authoritarianism-us-supreme-court-political-revolution-fighting-oligarchy-tour-alexandria-ocasio-cortez
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- Vermont maple sugar producers prepare for sap flow (March 1968)
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- 1 year ago
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- Video taken in March 1968 for a weeklong series on maple sugaring shows the process behind collecting tree sap, which is transformed into Vermont’s nationally-known product: maple syrup.
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- Capitol Recap: Tax tangle
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- 1 year ago
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- Capitol Recap: Tax tangle
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- U.S. to block Canadians' access to border-straddling library
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- 1 year ago
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- U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it will begin to restrict Canadians’ access to a library that straddles the international border due to "a continued rise in illicit cross border activity."
The front entrance is in Derby Line, Vermont, but for 121 years, Canadians have enjoyed free access to the Haskell Free Library using the front door without having to go through customs.
Canadian officials and representatives of the library decried the decision Friday, and residents of both communities gathered outside the library to express their dismay.
https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-03-21/locals-decry-plan-limit-canadian-access-haskell-library-border
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- Can Governor Scott and Democratic legislators make a deal?
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- 1 year ago
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- The debate over Vermont’s motel voucher program heats up, as the Scott administration rejects a Democratic compromise proposal on a midyear spending bill. Plus, a Newport roundtable highlights the economic uncertainty and emotional pain caused by Trump’s Canadian tariffs. And ICE arrest rumors in Stowe put workers on edge.
This week's panel:
Mitch Wertlieb - Moderator, Vermont Public
Stephen Biddix - NBC5
Carly Berlin - Vermont Public/VTDigger
Aaron Calvin - Stowe Reporter/News & Citizen
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- That catamount you saw? It was probably a bobcat
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- 1 year ago
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- Declan McCabe, a biology professor at Saint Michael’s College, says there are a few key differences between bobcats and catamounts — also known as pumas, cougars, or mountain lions.
Listen: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-03-13/so-you-think-youve-seen-a-catamount-heres-how-to-know
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- Calm and composed
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- 1 year ago
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- We preview original classical music compositions written by Vermont students for a Music-COMP concert next week. Plus, what’s behind the financial shortfall hampering Randolph’s Gifford Medical Center, lawmakers consider a bill to provide emergency financial relief for Vermont’s largest health insurer if its money woes worsen, the Vermont Senate approves legislation giving financial incentives to people who take care of seriously ill family members at home, lawmakers also advance a proposed constitutional amendment further protecting Vermonters’ rights to organize and collectively bargain, the University of Vermont announces its next president, and we preview UVM's game against NC State in the opening round of the NCAA women's basketball tournament in our weekly sports report.
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- Why Stowe’s logo is everywhere
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- 1 year ago
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- Stowe’s logo is everywhere, from gondolas to storefronts — even local police cars. It’s as if the entire town is part of one giant marketing campaign. One Brave Little State listener wants to know why.
https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/2025-03-20/from-the-slopes-to-main-street-how-one-logo-came-to-represent-all-of-stowe
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- Animal Hour: Sheep
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- 1 year ago
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- Sheep used to dominate the Vermont landscape. But these days, it’s kind of rare to drive by a large flock. What happened to Vermont’s sheep?
Today on Vermont Edition: It’s the latest in our March series Animal Hour and it’s all about sheep. We begin with local historian Mark Bushnell who tells us all about the sheep boom and bust of the 1800s.
Even though there aren’t as many sheep here as there used to be, there’s still a lot of Vermonters out there shearing sheep for their wool, raising lambs for meat, or producing award-winning sheep’s milk cheese. We’ll talk with Mark Rogers, head of the Vermont Sheep and Goat Association, and Amber Reed, a livestock grazing expert in Barnet.
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- A UVM team is creating a massive database of research about opioid use disorder
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- 1 year ago
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- Dr. David Krag and his team are sifting through around 43,000 studies about opioids and addiction to create an easy-to-access research database.
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- What’s the story behind the omnipresent ‘Stowe’ logo?
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- 1 year ago
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- You can find the swoopy, stylized version of the word “Stowe” everywhere — police cruisers, store windows, a covered bridge. It’s as if the entire town is part of one giant marketing campaign. Question-asker Joe Emery of Essex finds this sort of weird, and wants to know how it came to be.
We made a video version of this episode! Check it out here (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHbxwUDvu_c/) .
For more photos and an episode transcript, head to our website (https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/2025-03-20/from-the-slopes-to-main-street-how-one-logo-came-to-represent-all-of-stowe) .
This episode was reported by Sabine Poux. It was edited and produced by Josh Crane and Burgess Brown. Our intern is Catherine Morrissey. Angela Evancie is our Executive Producer. Digital support from Sophie Stephens. Theme music by Ty Gibbons; other music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Special thanks to Nina Ke...
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- 'Don't leave anybody on an island'
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- 1 year ago
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- We speak with UVM women’s head basketball coach Alisa Kresge as the conference champion defensive-minded Catamounts prepare to compete against NC State in the NCAA March Madness tournament. Plus, the Vermont Senate gives initial approval to a bill providing extreme weather disaster relief for farmers, some of the funding for the Vermont Historical Society is at risk due to an executive order, the state announces its Barn Preservation Grants for 2025, business leaders from Vermont and Quebec meet with Sen. Welch to discuss the effects of President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian products, and cross border traffic between the U.S. and Canada is down.
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- Program that sends local food to Vermont schools loses funding in Trump cuts
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- 1 year ago
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- The Trump administration is withholding about $1.7 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture aid that was supposed to fund local food programs for schools and organizations that assist low-income Vermonters.
Read the story: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-03-13/program-that-sends-local-food-to-vermont-schools-loses-funding-in-trump-cuts
Watch Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-03-14/scott-vetoes-motel-spending-housing-developers-seek-aid-dispatch-system-report
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- Vermont's Jason Chin helps kids understand the world through picture books
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- 1 year ago
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- South Burlington children's book author and illustrator Jason Chin uses paint and pen to bring the world around us to life. Chin won one of the highest honors in his field in 2022, when he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for Watercress, written by Andrea Wang. This year, he and the writer Lynn Brunelle won the Robert F. Silbert Medal for the most distinguished informational book for children for Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall.
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- Bernie Sanders calls the House Republican budget plan 'a unilateral and terrible bill'
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- 1 year ago
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- Sen. Bernie Sanders explains his "no" vote on the House Republican budget plan: "What I wanted was the Republicans to sit down and negotiate rather than just shove a unilateral and terrible bill down our throats."
https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-03-19/bernie-sanders-talks-authoritarianism-us-supreme-court-political-revolution-fighting-oligarchy-tour-alexandria-ocasio-cortez
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- Tariff threats are putting Vermont-Canada border companies at risk
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- 1 year ago
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- Nearly two dozen business leaders and industry representatives gathered Tuesday in Newport, just minutes from the border, to discuss the impacts of the Trump administration’s on-again-off-again threats of 25% tariffs on Canadian goods.
https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-03-18/newport-roundtable-highlights-economic-uncertainty-emotional-pain-trumps-canadian-tariffs
Video by Brittany Patterson/Vermont Public.
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- As bears emerge from hibernation, Vermont officials urge precautions
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- 1 year ago
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- For years, the state would advise Vermonters to remove bird feeders and other food sources that might attract a bear to their property by April 1. But the end of the hibernating season is creeping earlier: This video was taken in Bennington County in January. State biologists are asking Vermonters to take precautions against bears now, including taking down bird feeders.
Video courtesy D. Field / Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.
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- Bern notice
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- 1 year ago
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- A conversation with Vermont’s senior U.S. senator Bernie Sanders as he tries to rally political and public opposition to president Trump’s agenda in Washington. Plus, Vermont lawmakers consider a bill to plug holes left by federal cuts to a popular food program, warnings about air travel for some green card holders after a New Hampshire resident was detained by immigration officials in Boston earlier this month, a substance use disorder treatment provider in Vergennes is closing its women’s facility, and why Vermont’s geological make-up makes mud season even muddier.
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- Mud season's greetings! Ideas for enjoying this time of year
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- 1 year ago
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- This episode of Vermont Edition also included a conversation with VTDigger reporter Peter D'Auria about plans for a juvenile detention facility in Vergennes and some possible updates to Vermont's Raise the Age law.Your shoes are soggy. Your car wheels are spinning. You're not sure if you should dress for sun, rain, or even snow. Yes, it's mud season. Some Vermonters like Keegan Tierney, the Green Mountain Club's director of field programs, approach mud season with optimism and energy. Others, like Vermont Edition host Mikaela Lefrak, drudge their way through the sludge each year. Vermont's state geologist Ben DeJong, University of Vermont geology professor Paul Bierman, along with mud-loving Tierney explained how this season affects our landscape, and ways to make the best of it.Broadcast live on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
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- Announcing the 2024 Vermont Book Awards finalists
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- 1 year ago
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- The 2024 Vermont Book Awards finalists are here — featuring works of creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry and children's literature published by Vermont authors last year.
Read more: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-03-18/here-are-the-2024-vermont-book-award-finalists
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- Learning curve
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- 1 year ago
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- Vermont Education Secretary Zoie Saunders discusses how roiling changes at the U.S. Department of Education may impact the state. Plus, Vermont’s Senate Education Committee chair says the state’s universal school meals program is here to stay despite the Scott administration’s proposal to cut it, state biologists urge residents to take bear precautions now that hibernation season is ending, public hearings are scheduled this week on proposed changes to hunting regulations, and lawmakers consider a new state office to better coordinate services for immigrants in Vermont.
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- What the gutting of the U.S. Department of Education means for Vermont
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- 1 year ago
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- The U.S. Department of Education is cutting nearly half of its workforce. President Donald Trump wants to see the agency eliminated completely. What do these tidal shifts in education mean for individual states, like Vermont? Today's show answers that question.
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- 'When it's joyful, you can feel it': Folk musician Seamus Eagan on the power or Irish music
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- 1 year ago
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- Irish music conveys strong emotions. "When it's joyful, you can feel it. When it's sorrowful, you can feel it," folk musician Seamus Eagan told Vermont Edition in December.
Watch the full interview and performance: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2024-12-17/live-music-and-conversation-with-folk-musicians-seamus-egan-moira-smiley-and-yann-falquet
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- A plain dilemma
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- 1 year ago
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- Why voters in Royalton rejected proposed restrictions on what people can do with flood plain property. Plus, nearly half of Vermont’s 14 hospitals lost money providing patient care last year, Gov. Scott vetoes a budget adjustment package that includes funding for affordable housing and the state’s motel voucher program, federal updates to the state’s flood hazard maps could result in more private property building restrictions, Vermont’s Attorney General joins a lawsuit against the Trump administration to block layoffs at the US Department of Education, and state public health officials are urging Vermonters to make sure they’re immunized against measles.
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- Capitol Recap: New session, first veto
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- 1 year ago
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- Capitol Recap: New session, first veto
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- Gov. Phil Scott strikes down spending bill that would extend Vermont's motel shelter program
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- 1 year ago
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- Gov. Phil Scott delivered his first veto of the 2025 legislative session over a midyear spending package on Friday, setting up a showdown over Vermont’s motel shelter program.
Watch Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-03-14/scott-vetoes-motel-spending-housing-developers-seek-aid-dispatch-system-report
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- Why did Governor Scott issue his first veto of the session?
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- 1 year ago
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- In his first veto of the session, Governor Scott sends the budget adjustment bill back to lawmakers, citing concerns over the state’s motel program and spending. Plus, housing developers look to reduce infrastructure costs. And a new public safety report says Vermont's dispatch system needs an overhaul.
This week's panel:
Mitch Wertlieb - Moderator, Vermont Public
Anne Wallace Allen - Seven Days
Shaun Robinson - VTDigger
Howard Weiss-Tisman - Vermont Public
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- Total lunar eclipse seen from Fairfax, Vermont #moon #eclipse #lunareclipse #timelapse
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- 1 year ago
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- During a total lunar eclipse, Earth perfectly lines up between the sun and the moon, blocking most sunlight from reaching the moon’s surface. But long red wavelengths of light can still travel through our planet’s atmosphere, illuminating the moon in blood red.
https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-03-13/good-viewing-conditions-forecast-for-lunar-eclipse-late-tonight
Timelapse video courtesy Jake Moody.
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- Puppy parenting
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- 1 year ago
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- A couple that had never had kids or pets adopts a puppy and records an audio diary of the first seven months of that new and often difficult experience. Plus, Zoie Saunders is confirmed as Vermont’s Secretary of Education, both Vermont’s US senators say they’ll vote against a short-term budget bill Republicans passed in the House this week, a St. Michael’s College professor is trying to capture images of bobcats and other mountain cats in urban and suburban areas of the state, president Trump taps a six-tern New Hampshire lawmaker to head up New England’s FEMA office, a nearly 500-acre parcel of private land in Wallingford has been conserved as federal land, and the UVM women’s basketball team has a chance to get to the NCAA tournament when they tip off against the Great Danes in Albany.
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- Animal Hour: Big cats
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- 1 year ago
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- Vermont's famous big cats are rumored to be roaming the woods and hills. Here's how to know if you really did spot one in the wild.
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- Why does Vermont only have one landfill?
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- 1 year ago
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- When it comes to our trash, Vermont keeps it simple. Most trash ends up in Coventry, in the Northeast Kingdom. But it hasn’t always been this way — and we’ll soon need a new solution.
Brave Little State investigates why Vermont has just one landfill.
Listen to the episode: https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/2025-01-23/new-hampshire-has-six-landfills-why-does-vermont-only-have-one
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- Taking care
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- 1 year ago
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- Programs that provide support for older Vermonters and their caregivers could be at risk due to proposed federal cuts to Medicaid. Plus, the Trump administration shutters a nationwide program that provided local food for schools and food shelves, GE Areospace invests in Rutland, the Vermont Senate gives initial approval to more restrictions on social media for kids, a call for state lawmakers to take action against bullying in schools after a Vermont teenager’s suicide last year, and the Essex Westford School Board announces the district's next superintendent.
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- Bestselling author Chris Bohjalian publishes his 25th book
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- 1 year ago
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- A wounded Union captain from Vermont and the resilient wife of a Confederate soldier cross paths — and fates — in Chris Bohjalian's new novel.Bohjalian is the New York Times bestselling author of 25 books, a playwright and a longtime Weybridge resident. His work has been translated into 35 languages and become three movies and an Emmy-winning TV series (The Flight Attendant on Max). His novel Midwives was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. He was a weekly columnist for The Burlington Free Press from 1992 through 2015.This show was recorded on Mar. 9 at a live event, when Bohjalian sat down with Mikaela Lefrak in front of a packed house at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. The event was produced in partnership with the Middlebury Book Shop.Then, we get a preview of the Green Mountain Film Festival in Montpelier when Mikaela speaks with festival programmer Sam Kann.Broadcast live on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
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- Birthing quandary
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- 1 year ago
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- The board members of a small community hospital in Morrisville face a difficult decision on whether to close its birthing center. Plus, Middlebury College is among 60 universities under threat of enforcement for allegedly failing to protect Jewish students on campus, Ripton elementary school is losing its kindergarten and first grade classes, the Scott administration warns volatility in Washington makes it hard to predict Vermont’s future economic health despite current strong revenues, the Department of Public safety seeks input regarding a new report suggesting changes to how emergency dispatch calls are handled, and Vermont now has its first official Animal Welfare Director.
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- Why Vermont's health insurance costs keep going up
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- 1 year ago
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- The average marketplace premium in Vermont is more than 140% higher than the national average in 2025. For individuals who get their insurance through their employers, not the marketplace, their contributions are the highest in the whole country.In a recent Brave Little State episode, senior producer Josh Crane explores why Vermont's health care system is so expensive. He looks into the UVM Health Network and compares health care costs in different parts of our region. Then, Chief Health Care Advocate for Vermont Legal Aid Mike Fisher answers your questions about our health care system. Broadcast live on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
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- Work stoppage
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- 1 year ago
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- A debrief on why the town of Richmond terminated a deal to hire the a new police chief just hours before he was scheduled to begin the job. Plus, a doctor at Vermont’s largest hospital is trying to create an accessible database for researching opioid addiction, why best-selling Quebec-based mystery author Louise Penny won’t promote her new book in the US, the New Hampshire House votes to end annual vehicle safety inspections, and Bennington College launches a late-decision program for prospective students.
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- What we know so far about Burlington's overdose prevention center plans
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- 1 year ago
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- The proposed center will provide medical supervision to people using illegal drugs.
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- 'It just doesn't make sense'
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- 1 year ago
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- Taking a deep dive into why health insurance is so expensive in Vermont with a segment from Brave Little State. Plus, a group of potential buyers for the Burke Mountain ski resort say their bid has been ignored by the person in charge of the sale, a baby formula company is closing their Franklin County manufacturing plant that employs hundreds of people, state officials are trying to identify who needs more access to high-speed broadband, and the UVM women’s basketball team will play Bryant College for a trip to the America East conference finals.
