Several Vermont legislators want to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana; a South Burlington woman was on Capitol Hill this morning as the Senate investigated how the federal government responded to peanut products tainted with Salmonella;
Among the hundreds of thousands who have descended on Washington for Barack Obama’s inauguration are many Vermonters; a group of rail supporters will rally in Rutland later today to urge the state to save the Ethan Allen Express train service; more…
It’s
been pointed out that the definition of a living wage can vary, depending on
each worker’s needs and hopes and circumstances.
As
part of our series on getting by, VPR’s Nina Keck spoke with Steve Leonard.
He’s a 24-year-old bottle sorter at the Beer King in Rutland, and he says he’s satisfied – at least for now – with
the work and the compensation.
On Martin Luther King Day, we talk about
the experience of being an African-American in Vermont and how it’s changed over the decades, with guests Willi Coleman and Harvey Amani Whitfield. Also, a look back at the experience of the "buffalo soldiers" nearly a century ago. And, a commentary from Willi Coleman on the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
In observances around Vermont people will pause today to remember the legacy of the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, the civil rites leader who was slain forty years ago this coming April.