The Vermont Health Department is launching a pilot program to distribute an antidote for opium-based drug overdoses directly to addicts. Nearly 400 people who own properties in unincorporated towns and gores will vote on a potential wind power project for Seneca Mountain. Officials are meeting with Quebec counterparts to forge greater ties with the aerospace industry. Vermont Sec. of Agriculture is holding first of listening meetings with farmers around the state on how to improve things for farmers.
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.
