Howard Weiss-Tisman
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VPR
The town of Bennington is using $11 million in federal funding to remove lead water lines across town.
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Reassessing public water systems. Plus, another record-breaking day of COVID-19 cases, a new commissioner at Fish and Wildlife, and carbon in Vermont’s forests.
To answer this question from Robert Small of Stannard, Brave Little State takes stock of not one, not two but three pharmaceuticals currently in development.
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Seventeen missionaries were kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti on Saturday. It was the latest in what experts are calling a kidnapping crisis in the country — a crisis largely driven by one gang. -
Republicans in Texas and Florida are combatting COVID-19 mandates as a matter of personal liberty, even as the data show just how crucial vaccination — and mandates — are to beating the virus.
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“Latinx” is an increasingly popular gender-inclusive term in the United States, but Latinos in New Hampshire are divided on whether they should change the way they communicate.
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The climate pattern known as La Niña generally brings winters that are drier and warmer than usual across the southern U.S. and cooler and wetter in the northern part of the country.
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Vermont Edition co-host Connor Cyrus tells us about a special high school halftime show featuring drag performers in Burlington.
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Vermont reporters provide a roundup of top news takeaways about the coronavirus, the state's emergency motel housing program, cows and seaweed and more for Friday, Oct. 15.
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Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls "the gnarliest."
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A new report says floods could shut down a quarter of the country's critical facilities like airports, hospitals, government buildings, and schools — and the roads that take you there.
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After 98 years in business, Caplan’s Army Store in St. Johnsbury is closed. They closed on the last day of 2020. Independent reporter Erica Heilman stopped by to talk with longtime employee Gary Ely about the store, and his many years there.
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Vermont reporters provide a roundup of top news takeaways about the coronavirus and more for Thursday, Oct. 14.
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Gather round the campfire this month, and share your scariest Vermont tale.
Join VPR's Bob Kinzel for a screening of the NOVA film The Cannabis Question and a discussion to follow with Dr. Mark Levine, James Pepper and Maxine Grad.
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