VPT and VPR to webcast governor’s Jan. 5 State of the State address
Vermont Public Television and Vermont Public Radio will collaborate on live web coverage of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s state of the state address from the Statehouse in Montpelier on Thursday, Jan. 5, at 2 p.m. Viewers will find it at VPT’s website, www.vpt.org, and VPR’s website, www.vpr.net.
VPR tells the personal stories of Irene victims in one hour special
Tropical Storm Irene left an indelible signature scrawled on our landscape. The costs are still being tallied, but we do know the flood changed how we see the future. Vermont Public Radio presents “The Irene Effect” on Wednesday, December 14th at noon and 7 p.m. The hour-long special tells the personal stories of Vermonters still [...]
Casella Waste, VPR donate 6,500 books to Children’s Literacy Foundation
As part of VPR’s May membership drive, Casella Waste Systems donated one new book to CLiF for every pledge received. As a result, Casella donated 6,500 new books to directly benefit at-risk children in Vermont and New Hampshire.
Evslin, Blittersdorf face off on WDEV and VPR on Thursday
Is the price Vermonters pay for solar electricity too high and counter-productive? Or are the subsidies from ratepayers and taxpayers necessary to save the environment and the economy? I asserted “way too high” in a post last week. I’ll be grilled Thursday both on the Mark Johnson show on WDEV and on Vermont Public Radio’s Vermont Edition.
Halkias: Cocktails and consequences at Bull Run
Bull Run was a catalyst reaching far past our shores, and its own era. The South’s defeat was sealed the day after Bull Run. Lincoln’s subsequent decision to mobilize began a brutal war of attrition.
Dunsmore: Arab states face uncertainty
The tricky problem is devising a new strategy that deals with the new political realities – but which also continues to protect American interests in the region.
Galloway on Vermont Edition for reporters’ roundtable Thursday
The reporters will explore news stories from 2010 that will have a lasting impact well into 2011 and beyond.
Schubart: On the razor's edge
My wife asked me the other morning if I had used the brush hog or the lawn trimmer to shave and, later that same day, my garage mechanic warned me that a colony of deer ticks had apparently settled on my chin.
Digger Tidbits: Nose to nose on the numbers game; The hearsay department; How do I sue thee (let me count the ways)
Graff: “There is still a high level of uncertainty. I am continually amazed at news articles in which people … are uncertain about who they will support.”
VPR reports Dubie, Shumlin in a dead heat
Forty-four percent of those polled supported Dubie; 43 percent said they would vote for Shumlin.
