Governor Peter Shumlin has asked for a detailed federal environmental review should a Northeast Kingdom oil pipeline be reversed to carry tar sands crude. A Vermont State Police detective says a New Hampshire man shot the husband of his ex-wife before killing himself. A former Burlington high school Spanish teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student has lost a bid to have the school board reconsider the decision to suspend and then fire her. The Vermont Department of Labor says the state's unemployment rate ticked up one tenth of 1 percent in May to 4.1 percent.
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.
