Vermont Edition
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The Truth About Fishers

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We set the record straight on the elusive little predator called the fisher and Karen Tronsgard Scott, executive director of the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, provides her perspective on the Violence Against Women Act.   
Commentary Series
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Slayton: Birding Champlain

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The connection Vermonters have with nature flourishes in winter as well as warmer times. Tom Slayton proved that point recently when he spent the day birdwatching along the shore of Lake Champlain.
VPR News
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Hearings Begin On Assisted Death Bill

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The Vermont Senate Health and Welfare Committee has started its week-long review of one of the most controversial and emotional issues of the session. A bill under consideration would allow physicians to prescribe drugs to help terminally ill people end their lives.
Commentary Series
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Spencer Rendahl: PTSD And Me

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Forty years ago this weekend, then National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Vietnamese politburo member Le Duc Tho signed the Paris Peace Accords, ending the Vietnam War. Suzanne Spencer Rendahl, a daughter of that war, reflects on its legacy in her family’s struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder.
VPR News

Green Mountain Care Board Considers Controlling Health Costs

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The odor of scorched tires, faint but unmistakable, figuratively hung over last week’s meeting between the Green Mountain Care Board and representatives of Vermont’s hospitals. For the first time, the rubber began hitting the road on health care cost containment in the state, the linchpin of Governor Peter Shumlin’s single payer reform initiative.
VPR News
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Vt. Hospitals Take Big Health Care Overhaul Step

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Officials from Burlington’s Fletcher Allen Health Care, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and other hospitals serving Vermont have joined to create the nation’s first statewide accountable care organization. Friday’s announcement means about 42,000 of Vermont’s 118,000 Medicare beneficiaries will get their care from the new entity.