An Essex woman held against her will for more than five weeks at a psychiatric ward after her estranged husband killed their son and then hanged himself has told lawmakers she opposes involuntary hospitalization. Senator Patrick Leahy will be discussing the newly enacted appropriations bill for the State Department and U.S. foreign assistance. Green Mountain Power says a new sound monitoring report finds that its Lowell wind project continues to meet strict standards set by Vermont regulators. 90 percent of the Americans who need long-term care get it from family members. Now Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is giving classes to family caregivers, and they recruit actors to play patients. Senator Bernie Sanders will be holding a town meeting in Montpelier tomorrow about constitutional rights and privacy.
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.
