We discuss the challenges of the current education funding system
and what changes could be made to fix it, hear about author Sarah Stewart (S.S.)
Taylor’s new book, The Expeditioners and we learn about the new rules regulating bait fish.
Like the popular children’s book said: everyone
poops. But what happens to it all afterwards? We’ll learn all about septic systems, wastewater treatment, and
some innovative methods of dealing with that stuff everyone has, and nobody
wants.
Professor Dave Massell, director of the Canadian Studies program at the University of Vermont, talks with Vermont Edition about why he recommended changes for the program, making it available as a minor and not an academic major.
Vermont Gas Systems
is planning a major project to extend gas transmission pipes through
Addison County. Economic development officials are enthusiastic, but not everyone supports the project.
Last week the Lieutenant Governor performed a
part of his job description he very rarely gets to do: he cast the tie-breaking
vote on the End of Life bill. We’ll talk to Phil Scott about that vote and his agenda for
the start of his second term. We’ll also
hear live music with Dwight & Nicole.
We look at why Vermont’s eight mayors are speaking out
on state-wide issues and what they hope to accomplish, visit artist Eben Markowski’s life-size metal sculptures of wild animals and we read from our mailbag.
Burlington attorney Leslie Holman, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, talks with Vermont Edition about a plan that would legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants, providing they pay a fine and back taxes.
Alexander Twilight was the first African-American to receive a college degree when he graduated from Middlebury in 1823. But Twilight’s story is a complicated one.