Re-Elected Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger Looks Ahead At Next 3 Years

Vermont Public | By Melody Bodette,

Published March 7, 2018 at 11:38 AM EST

Miro Weinberger at Nectar's in Burlington on the night of Town Meeting Day 2018. — Miro Weinberger speaks to a gaggle of reporters at Nectar's in Burlington on the night of Town Meeting Day 2018.

Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger has won a third term in office, fending off challenges from two left-leaning candidates in independents Carina Driscoll and Infinite Culcleasure.

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Weinberger won with about 48 percent of the vote, compared to around 35 percent for Driscoll and 16 percent for Culcleasure, according to the city's unofficial results.

VPR's Mitch Wertlieb spoke with Weinberger about his upcoming third term as mayor of Vermont's largest city. Listen above to that interview above.

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Melody Bodette

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.

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Mitch Wertlieb

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.

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