Stephanie Colombini
News EditorStephanie Colombini joined Vermont Public in 2025 as News Editor after more than a decade working in public radio. She previously worked at WUSF in Tampa, Florida, where she won dozens of state and national awards reporting on health care, hurricanes and other issues. She also contributed stories for NPR and KFF Health News as part of a national reporting collaborative. Colombini has also worked as an editor, producer and host. She hails from New York and spent her early journalism years working at WCBS Newsradio 880 in New York City and WFUV, based at her alma mater Fordham University.
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In this week’s edition of the Capitol Recap, the latest from Montpelier from Vermont Public’s Peter Hirschfeld and Lola Duffort on private equity in healthcare. -
What’s next for a proposal from lawmakers who had been considering moving to a two-year car inspection cycle? Plus, a local musician shares what it looks like to have faith when certain structures of identity are crumbling around them.
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Some pre-Town Meeting Day school budget numbers, New Hampshire’s governor says Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ditching plans for a proposed detention facility in the state, and a kids’ version of Town Meeting Day in Calais.
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What Vermont lawmakers are considering when it comes to landlords and evictions, AI disclosure in campaign ads, and a Vermont history lesson from 1779.
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Vermont’s plan to restrict people from using food benefits to buy certain foods, a Vermonter’s deportation case gets thrown out of court, and an update on a popular Hyde Park reservoir.
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Burlington's mayor is preparing for a potential escalation of federal immigration enforcement, plus one Vermonter’s history-making Olympic win.
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In this week’s edition of the Capitol Recap, an update from Vermont Public’s Peter Hirscheld and Lola Duffort on the latest education reform talks in Montpelier.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, plus a long-running ski jumping contest in Brattleboro, and some local music, too.
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The Trump administration is holding back more than half of Vermont’s federal broadband money as the state works to connect the final addresses to a high-speed broadband network and some towns consider internet voting.
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We’ll learn about what finding the measles virus in the wastewater in Washington County means and what to look out for, and Vermont lawmakers are hoping to build more direct relationships with countries across the globe.
