The U.S. Senate has given bi-partisan approval to a two-year budget agreement. Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell has joined other states in asking Congress to fund anti-human trafficking measures. Voters in Lyndonville are supporting the local electric department's plans to enter into power sales. Agreements to buy power from out-of-state solar projects in Massachusetts. There's a new non-profit group working to help hungry children in Vermont.
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.
Peter was a Producer/Announcer at VPR until 2015. He began his public radio career in 2007 at WHQR-FM in Wilmington, North Carolina where he served as Morning Edition host and reporter, covering county government and Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base. His work has won several Associated Press awards and has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, and PRI's This American Life. A graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Maine at Farmington, Peter enjoys writing, cooking and traveling.
