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Vermont Sen. Peter Welch was at BETA Technologies in South Burlington Thursday afternoon to tour its manufacturing facility and discuss proposed legislation to help emerging aviation technologies.
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Vermont advocates for fair housing and the unhoused are calling for the expansion of a seasonal emergency shelter program.
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During his weekly briefing today, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott fielded questions about the continuing controversy over the March 11 Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in South Burlington.
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Vermont’s governor and the legislature’s Speaker of the House hold separate briefings on the proposed state budget
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For years, the State Auditor of Massachusetts has pursued a legislative audit that’s spurred a furious back-and-forth among the Democratic establishment that dominates state leadership in Boston. This week, a radio appearance from the commonwealth’s attorney general has led to a new chapter of the long-running battle over the auditor’s right to open State House books.
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The acclaimed writer Tracy Kidder – a longtime resident of Western Massachusetts – died in Boston on Tuesday at 80.
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Higher education regulators are calling on Hampshire College to "show cause" and prove why it shouldn't be "placed on probation" or have its accreditation withdrawn.
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Vermont Gov. Phil Scott has signed a bill that ensures Vermonters have access to vaccines.
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Court records indicate that ICE agents misidentified the individual they chased into a South Burlington home leading to a day-long protest that erupted into violence.
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Two years ago, graduates of a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, boarding school came forward with allegations that their former teacher engaged in sexual misconduct. This week, that teacher was formally charged with rape. WAMC spoke with the students the day after the grand jury indictment came down.
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In this installment of Shakedown Beat, WAMC's Josh Landes interviews the band Spafford and reviews three dates of the tour that brought them through the northeast this winter.
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Tuesday night, news broke that the former teacher at the heart of a sex abuse scandal at a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, boarding school had been indicted on three counts of rape in Berkshire Superior Court.