Vermont Public
BlueCross BlueShield's premium hikes
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- BlueCross BlueShield's premium hikes
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- 1 year ago
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- Vermont's largest health insurance provider expects more double-digit rate increases will be needed to keep up with the rising cost of care. VTDigger's Peter D'Auria explains.
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- Capitol Recap: Growing pains
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- 1 year ago
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- Capitol Recap: Growing pains
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- Taxes on Town Meeting Day
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- 1 year ago
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- Why did so many towns consider new local option taxes on Town Meeting Day this year? Vermont Public's April McCullum explains.
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- What happened on Town Meeting Day in Vermont?
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- 1 year ago
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- Town Meeting Day brought communities across the state together this week to weigh in on a wide range of issues. We’ll recap results and hear how school budgets fared this year. Plus, a federal program to reform how the state pays for health care faces an uncertain future.
This week's panel:
Mitch Wertlieb - Moderator, Vermont Public
April McCullum - Vermont Public
Peter D’Auria - VTDigger
Aaron Calvin - Stowe Reporter/News & Citizen
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- Damming praise
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- 1 year ago
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- How supporting the state’s beaver population could help Vermont with flood resiliency. Plus, Gov. Scott is glad most school budgets passed this year but adds more needs to be done to reform education, the governor fills a soon-to-be vacant spot on the state Board of Education with the appointment of a former Bennington state senator, UVM institutes a 60-day hiring freeze in response to proposed reductions in federal funding from the Trump administration, bird flu so far has not adversely affected the state’s duck and geese populations, the Vermont Truth and Reconciliation Commission fills a final seat that had been vacant for more than a year, and we ponder which players could be moved by the end of today’s NHL trade deadline in our weekly sports report.
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- What is the Bennington Triangle?
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- 1 year ago
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- Five mysterious disappearances were the talk of Bennington in the mid-20th century. Now, they’ve developed a cult following online. We revisit the initial cases and trace the rise of the “Bennington Triangle” in the popular imagination.
Thanks to Kevin Landry of Claremont, New Hampshire for the great question.
Check out the web version of this story here (https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/2025-03-06/the-bennington-triangle-how-5-mysterious-disappearances-developed-a-cult-following-online) .
This episode was reported by Howard Weiss-Tisman and produced by Burgess Brown. Editing and additional production from Josh Crane and Sabine Poux. 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 Laura Nakasaka, Jon Ehrens, Betty Smith, Eric Ford, La...
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- Vermonters work to broker peace deal with beavers
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- 1 year ago
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- Town and state leaders are working to improve humans' relationship with beavers to support flood resiliency. Beavers' brains are small — about the size of a walnut — but you wouldn't know it from watching them work. "They get up and go to work every single day, never take a vacation," said Skip Lisle, a wildlife biologist in Grafton. Lisle invented the Beaver Deceiver, a flow device that sneaks water away from beavers and removes the need to trap or kill them.For naturalist Patti Smith of the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center in West Brattleboro, it's important for Vermonters to understand what happened when beavers were overhunted in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. "When all of the beavers disappeared from North America — disappeared being a euphemism for 'turned into stylish hats' — eventually those dams degraded and all of those wetlands drained," she said.
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- Passing grades
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- 1 year ago
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- Examining why many more school budgets were approved during Town Meeting Day this year, after nearly a third failed last year. Plus, state officials and local business owners brace for the economic impact of a trade war with Canada, Vermont’s attorney general praises the U.S. Supreme Court for blocking an effort by the Trump administration to freeze foreign aid, corrections staff lock down Vermont prisons while searching for contraband, voters show mixed support for local options taxes on Town Meeting Day, and Dartmouth College is hosting the NCAA Skiing Championships for the first time in more than two decades.
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- How Trump's Canada tariffs will affect Vermont, relationship with Quebec
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- 1 year ago
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- Sen. Welch discusses Trump's tax on Canadian goods. Vermont Commerce Secretary and a Montreal reporter discuss how the tariffs will play out on either side of the border.
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- Vermont towns approve most school budgets, infrastructure bonds on Town Meeting Day
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- 1 year ago
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- Town Meeting Day results are in from communities across Vermont. Voters passed more than 90% of school budgets and a slew of infrastructure bonds across the state on Tuesday, including a $152 million bond to upgrade wastewater and stormwater systems in Burlington.
Read more: https://www.vermontpublic.org/live-updates/live-updates-vermonters-vote-local-on-town-meeting-day-2025
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- Food shelf directors motivated to serve their community amidst heated debate in Montgomery, Vermont
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- 1 year ago
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- Tiffany Salyards and Tosca Smith, codirectors of Heart Full Kitchen, which serves as Montgomery's food shelf, prepared a turkey gravy and biscuit luncheon for the attendees of Town Meeting Day, taking advantage of two large turkeys donated to them from a local farmer. Smith was particularly motivated to cook for her community to counteract the heated debate over the future of a municipal sewer system in town.
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- Roll call
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- 1 year ago
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- Sharing scenes from Town Meeting Day, including a less-than-glowing assessment of local road maintenance. Plus, U.S. Rep. Becca Balint boycotts President Trump’s joint address to Congress, the head of the Vermont Sugar Maker’s Association attends Trump’s speech amid concerns that tariffs levied against Canada will negatively affect the state’s maple industry, Jay voters turn out for Town Meeting Day, about a half dozen municipalities consider a pledge of support for Palestinians, voters in Rutland County’s Quarry Valley School District consider a nonbinding school closure article, and voters in Guilford pass all articles on the ballot during their first-ever Saturday town meeting.
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- Lyndon voters reject switch to Australian ballot on Town Meeting Day
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- 1 year ago
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- After four years of all-ballot voting, Lyndon residents were back in-person today — and one of the biggest decisions was whether to stay that way.
Voters considered, and rejected, a proposal to switch voting to Australian ballot.
"Democracy was never meant to be convenient. If we keep ceding our ability to come here as a group and come here and debate, that troubles me deeply," said former state Sen. Joe Benning, also a former town moderator.
This will be the first of many floor votes at the Lyndon town office building. Story by Lexi Krupp. Video by Riley Cartwright.
🔗 https://www.vermontpublic.org/live-updates/live-updates-vermonters-vote-local-on-town-meeting-day-2025#lyndon-sticks-with-in-person-voting
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- What is Town Meeting Day?
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- 1 year ago
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- Susan Clark, Middlesex town moderator and author of "All Those in Favor: Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community," joined Vermont Edition this afternoon to discuss the history of Town Meeting Day.
Listen: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-03-04/the-past-and-present-of-town-meeting-day
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- The past and present of Town Meeting Day
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- 1 year ago
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- Town Meeting Day is a method of direct civic engagement and and a longstanding community building tradition. It's a time when Vermont’s 247 municipalities each decide how they’ll spend their local budgets. We begin by hearing about some significant votes taking place around the state. Vermont Public's Nina Keck talks about the Rutland mayoral race, and reporter Lexi Krupp explains Lyndon's vote to keep Town Meeting an in-person affair, rather than switch to Australian ballot.Then, we dig into the history of town meetings in Vermont with Middlesex town moderator Susan Clark. She is the co-author of many books about democracy in Vermont, including All Those in Favor: Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community. She discusses the times when Vermont towns voted on national and international issues that extended far beyond the purview of local budgets. Then, we share a 1982 NPR story by Leslie Breeding about a town meeting in Strafford. Broadcast live on Tuesday, March 4, 20...
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- Dual crises
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- 1 year ago
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- Without intervention, education officials say health care costs will continue to eat up ever-larger shares of local school budgets — regardless of which cost-saving measures Montpelier imposes on districts. Plus, Middlebury is among the handful of municipalities presenting water infrastructure bonds to voters on Town Meeting Day, Sen. Welch is calling for Republicans to support Ukraine, the state is proposing changes for waterfowl hunters, and Caledonia County’s sheriff has died.
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- A tour around Vermont ahead of Town Meeting Day
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- 1 year ago
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- It’s time for Town Meeting Day, a Vermont tradition stretching back more than 200 years. Chief administrative officer for the City of Burlington Katharine Schad discusses significant bond measures. Missisquoi Valley School District vice chair Renick Darnell-Martin, a Highgate resident, talks through the school district's budget. In Plainfield, select board chair Karl Bissex talked about a plan to expand the town after last year's flooding caused major damage. Bellows Falls, Saxtons River and Rockingham voted this past weekend to create a single municipal fire and rescue department. Rockingham town manager Scott Pickup provides insight on that vote. Jackie Matts, chair of the Bennington charter review committee, explains the effort to allow 16- and 17-year-olds and non-U.S.citizens to vote on town issues.
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- Some Canadians are canceling trips to Vermont because of Donald Trump
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- 1 year ago
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- Amy Spear, executive director of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, said political and economic uncertainty are factoring into Canadians’ decisions to travel and spend in the United States.
Read the story: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-03-03/some-canadians-are-canceling-trips-to-vermont-because-of-trump
Watch Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-02-28/in-review-education-reform-details-sanders-rallies-canadian-boycotts
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- Boycotted
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- 1 year ago
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- Despite historically strong ties, Canadians are canceling trips to Vermont amid President Trump’s threats to institute tariffs on Canadian goods and calls to make our northern neighbor the “51st state.” Plus, the Scott administration presents a plan to adjust the motel housing program after funding disagreements with Democratic lawmakers, Vermont appears to have missed a major climate emissions deadline, a handful of municipalities will consider local option taxes on Town Meeting Day, and Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater is opening a new learning space.
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- Hundreds protest JD Vance's Vermont ski trip
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- 1 year ago
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- Hundreds of protesters gathered in Waitsfield on Saturday morning to protest Vice President JD Vance, who is visiting Vermont with his family for a ski trip this weekend.
The protest was organized by Indivisible Mad River Valley earlier this week, but demonstrators on Saturday said they were galvanized to attend after watching Vance and President Donald Trump’s White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday.
In a statement issued Thursday, Gov. Phil Scott encouraged Vermonters to be respectful of Vance and his family during their stay.
“Please join me in welcoming them to Vermont, and hoping they have an opportunity to experience what makes our state, and Vermonters, so special.”
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- Capitol Recap: Developing policy
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- 1 year ago
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- Democratic lawmakers have mixed interest in advancing Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s wide-ranging housing plan, and haven’t offered many of their own proposals to address Vermont’s long-standing unit shortage.
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- Sen. Bernie Sanders takes 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour through the Midwest
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- 1 year ago
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- Seven Days reporter Kevin McCallum recently followed U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour through the Midwest.
Sanders isn’t running for anything, but McCallum said Vermont’s senior senator visited the home districts of vulnerable Republican House members to pressure them to stand up to the Trump administration.
Watch the latest episode of Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-02-28/in-review-education-reform-details-sanders-rallies-canadian-boycotts
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- Will Vermonters embrace a slate of proposed changes to hunting regulations?
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- 1 year ago
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- With key legislative deadlines fast approaching, Governor Scott's administration unveils their education reform proposal. Plus, a look inside Senator Bernie Sanders' ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour. And why some Canadians are skipping Vermont for the next four years.
This week's panel:
Mikaela Lefrak - Moderator, Vermont Public
Kevin McCallum - Seven Days
Brittany Patterson - Vermont Public
Ethan Weinstein - VTDigger
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- How have federal funding cuts hit Vermont? Vermont Edition's Mikaela Lefrak explains
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- 1 year ago
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- This month, Vermont Edition has heard from lawmakers, federal workers and local organizations affected by the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to federal spending. Find the latest from Vermont Edition at vermontpublic.org, or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
How the DOGE effect is being felt in Vermont: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-02-18/how-the-doge-effect-is-being-felt-in-vermont
Vermont's treasurer, Senate minority leader and a fired USDA employee on Trump's economic agenda: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-02-24/vermonts-treasurer-senate-minority-leader-and-a-fired-usda-employee-on-trumps-economic-agenda
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- 'We're really worried'
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- 1 year ago
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- Neurodivergent Vermonters are organizing a mutual aid effort to provide each other with medicine, groceries and other support amid potential cuts to Medicaid and other federal funding. Plus, the state is finalizing plans to open its own cannabis testing lab, Vermont officials are closely monitoring for bird flu, Vermont Fish and Wildlife is proposing allowing hunters to take antlerless deer during the regular fall hunting season for the first time in years, and several blighted South Burlington buildings are being razed to make way for commercial space and housing.
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- Why is health insurance in Vermont so expensive?
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- 1 year ago
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- Cha-ching. Vermont health insurance is pricey, and getting more expensive really quickly. For one listener in Montpelier, it’s just not adding up.
Rosie Krueger says sky-high health insurance costs were a real pill when she was building budgets on the Montpelier City Council a few years ago. Since then, this health insurance dilemma has only gotten worse.
The good news: There’s a pretty straightforward answer to Rosie’s question. The bad news: It’s hard to know what to do about it.
For a closer look at the data we mention in the episode, check out the web version of this story (https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/2025-02-27/health-insurance-is-expensive-everywhere-but-especially-in-vermont-why) .
Thanks to Rosie for the great question.
This episode was reported by Josh Crane, with additional reporting from Lexi Krupp. Editing and additional production from Sabine Poux an...
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- Raw milk: to drink or not to drink?
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- 1 year ago
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- A Vermont microbiologist, food safety official and dairy farmer explain how raw milk is tested and regulated.
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- Vermont restaurant news with Seven Days
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- 1 year ago
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- Are you craving new restaurants to try or want the latest on Vermont's food scene? We've got you covered. Food and drink editor Melissa Pasanen of Seven Days shares culinary updates from around the region.
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- Protecting your flock
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- 1 year ago
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- Vermont poultry farmers take steps to guard their animals against bird flu, which has been spreading around the country. Plus, rank-and-file lawmakers are pushing Democratic leadership to exempt military pensions for state income tax, U.S. Rep. Balint denounces a budget plan that passed the House this week, several towns will mull whether to allow ATVs on town roads, and the Stowe Foliage Arts Festival won’t return this fall.
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- Black History Month: Black Arts and Culture in Vermont
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- 1 year ago
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- Black Vermonters have helped shape the state throughout history, arts and culture.
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- Volunteers needed
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- 1 year ago
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- The mountain town of Ripton has been trying to keep its small elementary school open for years, and now risks losing one of its classes unless the community can recruit a handful of extra students for the coming school year. Plus, Gov. Scott and Democratic lawmakers are at odds over budgeting for Vermont’s motel housing program, Green Mountain Transit is seeing better-than-expected ridership numbers after reinstating fares, Vermont has a shortage of child psychiatrists, and some overlooks and cliff tops are now closed to protect nesting raptors.
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- UVM's chief of child psychiatry discusses youth mental health and antidepressants
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- 1 year ago
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- Earlier this month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for a study on the effects of antidepressants and antipsychotics on children. He established the Make America Healthy Again commission to examine childhood chronic diseases, including mental health disorders. This comes as new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argues that antidepressants, particularly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), are overprescribed to children.Dr. Steven Schlozman, chief of child psychiatry at the University of Vermont Medical Center, explains how these medications work, and how they are prescribed, and answered listener questions.Broadcast live on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.Have questions, comments, or tips? Send us a message or check us out on Instagram.
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- The legislative battle over Vermont's Global Warming Solutions Act
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- 1 year ago
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- Gov. Phil Scott wants to roll back some of Vermont’s key climate laws, arguing they are too costly to implement. Lawmakers are debating whether to stay the course on climate action. Vermont Public’s Peter Hirschfeld breaks down this debate over the Global Warming Solutions Act. He also looks at how legislators are preparing for Town Meeting Day and navigating uncertainty around federal funding. Catch up on everything happening at the Statehouse with Capitol Recap, released every Friday.
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- February 25, 2025
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- 1 year ago
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- February 25, 2025
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- Vermont's treasurer, Senate minority leader and a fired USDA employee on Trump's economic agenda
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- 1 year ago
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- Among DOGE's federal funding cuts, tariffs, and proposed cuts to Medicaid, there is a lot of change happening in the federal budget. Vermont State Treasurer Mike Pieciak, Senate minority leader Scott Beck, and a recently-fired USDA worker give us their thoughts.
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- University of Vermont Medical Center planning for expansion over the next decade
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- 1 year ago
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- The University of Vermont Medical Center projects it will need nearly 250 additional inpatient beds as it expands to meet the region's health care needs over the next decade.
Watch the latest episode of Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-02-21/in-review-burlingtons-town-meeting-day-burlington-city-council-open-seats-climate-change-standards-pushback
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- Good stewards
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- 1 year ago
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- A new study out of Dartmouth College examines how current research practices can improve the governance of Indigenous data. Plus, the University of Vermont Health Network will continue to run three dialysis clinics around the state, a Shelburne cop who hit and killed a cyclist is now facing criminal charges related to the incident, a new poll finds the majority of Vermonters don’t approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance, why Abenaki leaders from Odanak First Nation were at the Statehouse last week and how you can help prevent avalanches.
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- Burlington residents to vote on $172 million for wastewater system repairs
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- 1 year ago
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- On Town Meeting Day next month, Burlington voters will decide whether to approve bonds totaling $172 million for improvements to the city’s drinking and wastewater systems.
Watch the latest episode of Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-02-21/in-review-burlingtons-town-meeting-day-burlington-city-council-open-seats-climate-change-standards-pushback
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- Capitol Recap: Energy Plans
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- 1 year ago
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- In this week’s Capitol Recap, reporters Lola Duffort and Peter Hirschfeld dive into the debate over the future of energy policy in Vermont, and if Democrats are prepared to roll back or revise some of the signature climate laws they’ve enacted over the last four years.
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- Democrats split on the future of Vermont's climate agenda
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- 1 year ago
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- Advocates and some Democratic lawmakers have pushed back on Gov. Phil Scott’s plan to repeal parts of Vermont’s climate standards, including a provision in the 2020 Global Warming Solutions Act that allows individuals or organizations to sue the state if it fails to meet mandatory emissions reduction targets.
Watch the latest episode of Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-02-21/in-review-burlingtons-town-meeting-day-burlington-city-council-open-seats-climate-change-standards-pushback
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- Will Vermont lawmakers rollback key elements of the state's landmark emissions reduction law?
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- 1 year ago
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- Governor Scott's plan to repeal emissions mandates draws scorn from advocates. Plus, taxpayers demanded relief. Now, many schools are downsizing. Will it be enough to get them a passing grade from voters? And a preview of town meeting day in Burlington.
This week's panel:
Cat Viglienzoni - Moderator, WCAX
Mark Johnson - WCAX
Lola Duffort - Vermont Public
Katharine Huntley - WCAX
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- 'I am a resource for you'
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- 1 year ago
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- We meet an Iraqi refugee who came to Vermont as a teenager and now works as a police liaison officer in Winooski schools. Plus, a state organization that provides legal assistance to immigrants has half its staff laid off due to funding cuts by the Trump administration, how the U-V-M Medical Center is trying to help people of color adjust to work and life in Vermont, New York’s Department of Corrections temporarily shuts down prison visitations following days of unrest and unsanctioned strikes by some prison staff, and an oversupply of cannabis is prompting concerns that the state’s smaller growers may be forced out of business.
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- Romantasy: Romance meets fantasy in Vermont
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- 1 year ago
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- Romantasy books are booming. Vermont authors and readers understand the appeal.
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- Contested
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- 1 year ago
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- Breaking down Rutland’s mayoral race, which has recently generated some controversy for the well-known candidates. Plus, Democratic legislative leaders decry the Scott administration’s efforts to roll back climate policy, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital support staff have unionized, University of Vermont officials generally expect research to continue like normal despite Trump administration efforts to cut federal funding, and a Barre granite quarry is no longer offering public tours.
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- Black History Month: Running a Black-owned business in Vermont
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- 1 year ago
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- Across Vermont, Black entrepreneurs are running successful businesses that serve both Black Vermonters and the broader population. This is the third installment of our Black History Month series, where we explore different aspects of Black life in our region. They discuss the ups and downs of being entrepreneurs.Leroy Nedd, owner of Hair R Us in Burlington, specializes in wigs, weaves, extensions, and other hair products. Restaurateur Leslie McCrorey Wells co-owns Sotto Enoteca, Pizzeria Verita, and Trattoria Delia in Burlington, as well as Lovestock Farm in Grand Isle. She has served on numerous boards, including the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art, the Flynn Center, the Intervale, and a three-year appointment on Vermont’s Future of Agriculture Commission. BJ Robertson also joins the conversation. After playing basketball in high school and college in Vermont, as well as for the Vermont Frost Heaves, he founded Blueprint Basketball, a mentorship and training program ...
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- The complex backstory to the fatal shooting of a US Border Patrol agent
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- 1 year ago
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- In January, a U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed in Coventry during a routine traffic stop. Two others were shot, and two people died. In the weeks since, it has emerged that those involved were followers of a fringe ideology known as Zizianism, which has been linked to multiple killings across several states. VTDigger’s Peter D’Auria and his colleagues have been covering the shooting, its aftermath, and the broader connections that have emerged.
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- USAID funding cuts hit Vermonters
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- 1 year ago
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- In the wake of abrupt cuts to USAID funding, Vermont nonprofits, companies and workers are left reeling.
Watch the latest episode of Vermont This Week: https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-this-week/2025-02-14/usaid-cuts-hit-vermonters-scotts-public-safety-proposal-bird-flu-prevention
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- Shape-shifting
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- 1 year ago
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- A Brave Little State excerpt explores how Bristol’s town forest has shifted over time to meet changing community needs. Plus, Vermont’s treasurer wants lawmakers to hold off on joining a California initiative that could raise the price of gas here, Sen. Peter Welch raises alarms at Ukraine not being included in talks to end the country’s war with Russia, Johnson’s former grocery store building could be headed for a FEMA buyout, and Shelburne Museum has acquired Norman Rockwell paintings tied to Vermont’s granite industry.
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- How the DOGE effect is being felt in Vermont
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- 1 year ago
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- In the name of government efficiency and cutting foreign spending, the Trump administration is freezing funds and furloughing workers at many federal agencies. Billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs are at stake. Leaders of organizations in our region that receive federal funding join us to discuss the local impact.We’ll hear about the major changes to institutions like USAID when we speak with Eric Postel* of Bennington, a Senior Advisor at DAI, Inc., and a USAID political appointee during the Obama and Biden administrations, and Nazgul Abdrazakova, President and CEO of Resonance Global, based in Winooski. Their organizations both receive USAID funding. The Vermont Afghan Alliance receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support Afghan refugee resettlement. Executive director Molly Gray and Yassin Hashimi, who leads the organization's employment program, explain the uncertainty caused by the funding cuts. Then, we're joined by Jack Gla...
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- Stormy weather
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- 1 year ago
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- Assessing the damage from a weekend storm that brought more snowfall to parts of Vermont than has been seen in at least a couple of years. Plus, Winooski voters will decide an eviction notice ballot measure on Town Meeting Day, Vermont’s Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit opposing the governor’s appointment of an interim education secretary, UVM receives top tier status for schools engaged in scientific research, and the incoming interim police chief in Burlington will serve for two years and stay on as an advisor once a permanent chief is hired.
