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VPR Newscast: Friday, November 15, 12:00 p.m.

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published November 15, 2013 at 12:30 PM EST

A new report is challenging the basic financial assumptions of Governor Peter Shumlin’s single payer health care plan.

The state of Vermont says general and education fund revenues were slightly ahead of expectations in October while the Transportation Fund was just below forecasts.

A top official with the company that owns the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant says there's not likely to be much activity at the Vernon reactor in the first six to 10 years after it closes next year.

Vermont's rifle deer hunting season starts this weekend.

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Mitch Wertlieb

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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Annie Russell

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.

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