Powerful thunderstorms passed through the region yesterday, taking down trees and knocking out power for over 13,000 utility customers. Smaller airports are feeling the crunch as airlines continue to cut costs. The big carriers are consolidating services at larger airports and flying fewer planes in and out of smaller ones. At Burlington Airport passenger numbers are higher than they were a decade ago, but they’ve declined nearly 18 percent since peaking five years ago. Senator Bernie Sanders is hailing a new report on the Social Security program as supporting his conclusion that the program is not going broke. The Burlington school district has hired a private detective to investigate whether school officials followed proper reporting procedures involving a teacher who's accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.
Melody is the Contributing Editor for But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids and the co-author of two But Why books with Jane Lindholm.
A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
