Nearly 1,400 Vermont households that qualified last year for fuel assistance will have to find a new source of heating oil and propane this winter. The developer of a major wind project in the Green Mountain National Forest has been unable to reach an agreement to sell the power it would produce.
VPR says only one mug from the fall of 2005 has shown unacceptable levels of lead among mugs tested.
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.
