The Vermont House has made a strong vote in favor of legislation to deny parental rights to perpetrators when a sexual assault results in pregnancy. An insurance company has won a legal round in its effort to avoid providing information about health coverage sought by the state of Vermont. The town of Rockingham has reached an agreement with officials to buy remnants of an old covered bridge destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. People with mental illness are often waiting days to get admitted to a hospital. That’s according to a new report. The founder and former president of a Bennington school has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and has paid back $2.6 million on charges of tax and health care fraud.
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.
