Some 75 Vermont businesses hit by natural disasters in 2011 will be eligible for 5 million dollars in unemployment insurance relief under a new state law. State utility regulators heard conflicting evidence this week about Vermont Yankee’s impact on the Connecticut River. Critics of the use of stun guns by police in Vermont are planning to gather at the Statehouse to highlight what they say is a lack of progress on the issue since a Thetford man died after being hit by a state police taser a year ago.
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.
Annie Russell was VPR's Deputy News Director. She came to VPR from NPR's Weekends on All Things Considered and WNYC's On The Media. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School.
