Vermont Supreme Court Justice John Dooley talks with VPR’s Jane Lindholm about the financial challenges faced by the Vermont Bar Foundation in its effort to fund programs like Vermont Legal Aid and Law Line, which provide legal services to low income families.
Valley News political editor John Gregg on how towns are working with FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to get reimbursed for recovery work after Tropical Storm Irene.
Ten young men recently set
off from the shores of Lake Dunmore in Salisbury to paddle 1,200
miles to James Bay in Ontario. The adventure, dubbed "Expedition
2012," will raise funds for the camp where they met.
One
of the most contentious bills at the Statehouse right now would allow terminally
ill patients to get medication from a doctor to end their lives, but it may not make it to the full Senate
floor.
Recycling
and composting could soon be mandatory in Vermont. Legislation to make it so recently passed the House
by a unanimous vote, and is now in the Senate.