Many Vermont towns and cities are grappling with rising insurance rates and school costs. Hartford's rate will be pushed up by health care insurance. The town of Jericho has been run by a three-person Selectboard for more than two centuries, but voters will decide whether to bump the board up to five members. Vermont Public Television is expected to release findings from an internal investigation about allegations of open meeting violations. Military service members and their families can be put in a tough spot when the military orders one spouse to move and the other must give up a job to move with their partner.
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.
