Former administration secretary Kathy Hoyt named to VT House seat vacated by Margaret Cheney, who’s leaving to work on the PSB. Medicare and Medicaid officials have put the Brattleboro Retreat on notice. The hospital has until October 30th to implement changes in its handling of violent or aggressive patient behavior. Vermonters get a chance to see the new movie based on the capture of Capt. Phillips of Underhill by Somali pirates, when it screens in Williston 10 days before its national release.
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.
