A town law banning ‘aggressive panhandling’ and sleeping in cars went into effect this week in Bennington, despite efforts to overturn it. Two Vermont Senate committees are slated to take up the sensitive question of when it's permissible to force people with mental illness to take medications against their will. Norwich elementary students gathered with other sports fans in the gymnasium of the Marion Cross School on Tuesday to give a rousing send-off to a famous alumna soon to compete at the Olympics in Sochi.
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.
