A House committee is holding a public hearing on a bill for paid sick leave. Vermont Technical College expects to end the current fiscal year with larger than anticipated debt. An eight-year case over backyard debris at a home in Burlington is headed to the state's environmental court. A New Hampshire father has received a suspended two-week jail sentence and has to submit an apology letter to the local newspaper for yelling at and jabbing his daughter's basketball coach after a game 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.
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.
