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Newscast: Monday, July 1, 2013, 12:04 p.m.

Governor Peter Shumlin has announced the state is paying off the final $54 million of a federal loan taken out for unemployment benefits during the last recession. FEMA spent over $185 million in Vermont after Tropical Storm Irene, and a big chunk of that money went to mental health services.  A federal judge has rejected a former fire department captain's request to exclude statements he made to police about nearly two dozen suspicious wildfires set in 2008.  Rainfall in the month of June caused flash flooding and problems for farmers, ruining the strawberry season for some.

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.
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