Governor Peter Shumlin is urging his Republican counterpart in Maine to push his “Tea Party friends in Congress" to reopen the federal government. A new website is up and running to match companies with students looking for internships. Town officials in Cornwall want the state to stop plans for a pipeline that would run through town to a paper mill in New York. Vermont's newest highway welcome center is set to open in Bennington. A movie about the Vermont captain of an American Cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates is opening to national audiences today.
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.
