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Newscast: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 12:04 p.m.

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published December 5, 2013 at 1:08 PM EST

The Department of Environmental Conservation met with Vermonters this week to discuss Lake Champlain clean up.

Weeks after a Vermont state legislative committee rejected a Shumlin administration request to make it easier to give involuntary treatments to mentally ill patients, the administration is asking for reconsideration.

Vermont retailers and state officials are pleased that the US Supreme Court has decided it will not get involved in efforts by states to collect sales taxes for online purchases.

A 28-year-old Burlington woman is facing charges she illegally sold five cases of Heady Topper beer online.

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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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