Lexi Krupp
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VPR
While Vermont leads the nation in vaccinations, some 90,000 eligible Vermonters have not yet gotten the shot. Some surveys show most of those people would get vaccinated. To reach them, the state is organizing dozens of small community clinics.
Courtsey
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Brattleboro Police Department
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Norma Hardy, the new police chief of Brattleboro, becomes the first Black woman to lead a police department in Vermont. Plus, Burlington’s a “heat island,” the struggle to find foster homes and COVID-19 numbers.
Brave Little State takes on a question from Bobby Arnell of Winooski about the complex, controversial decision to base the fighter jets in Vermont’s most populous county.
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Cutting carbon emissions to zero in the next 30 years would save about 74 million lives this century, a new analysis estimates. -
Wipe the dust off your binoculars and extract the family telescope from the back of the closet: Saturn is about to put on its best and brightest show of the year — an act Jupiter will soon follow.
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Vermont reporters provide a roundup of top news takeaways about Vermont's climate action plan, the latest coronavirus numbers and more for Wednesday, July 28.
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Ten years ago there were only about two dozen openly LGBTQ Olympians competing in the games. Today, there are more than 160.
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The first monthly enhanced child tax credit payment has landed, but some families are now opting out. Here's how to decide whether it makes sense for you.
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Reversing earlier guidance, the agency is encouraging indoor masking for fully vaccinated people under certain circumstances.
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VPR's Mitch Wertlieb interviews Seven Days reporter Derek Brouwer about his reporting on five Vermont nursing homes poised to be purchased by a group with close ties to a nursing home magnate, whose homes in Pennsylvania are facing a criminal investigation.
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Vermont reporters provide a roundup of top news takeaways about COVID-19, air quality and more for Tuesday, July 27.
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New cases of COVID-19 are creeping up in Vermont, even among people who've been fully vaccinated against the disease. Gov. Phil Scott and his team held a press briefing Tuesday, to talk about the situation. So what comes next?
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"For most people, Jan. 6 happened for a few hours," U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell said in the select committee hearing. "But for those of us who were in the thick of it, it has not ended."
VPR wants to hear how 9/11 changed you. We are hoping to gather stories and perspectives from a wide variety of Vermonters, people whose experiences and reflections perhaps haven’t been heard before.
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