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VPR News is Vermont's statewide, public broadcast and digital news service.
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JAG Underground was born out of a thirst for community gathering
JAG Productions, a Black theater company based in the Upper Valley, shares work that reflects and deconstructs racial, gender, sexuality and class hierarchies. After months of fundraising and planning, the company a new artist showcase called JAG Underground.
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Capitol Recap: Lawmakers 'go slow to go fast' on education finance reform
Every year, lawmakers must pass a bill that sets the property tax rates necessary to pay for school budgets. For this week’s edition of the Capitol Recap, we explore how lawmakers in the House want to use this legislation to respond to double-digit property tax hikes.
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Vermont voters continue to reject some school budgets, raising questions about a backup plan
Roughly one in three school budgets failed in Vermont on Town Meeting Day this year. School districts across the state are now entering second and third voting rounds to get budgets approved by voters.
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Abenaki peoples speak at the United Nations about Indigenous identity fraud in Vermont
Two young citizens of Odanak First Nation described what they call Indigenous identity theft, particularly in Vermont, at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The Abenaki Councils of Odanak and W8linak and the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador bought a billboard in Times Square to highlight the topic.
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A garden program in Maine helps incarcerated people feed themselves and others
The Made Here film Seeds of Change: Breaking Free from the Prison Food Machine follows an organic farmer in Maine who set out to transform the prison food system with an organic gardening program.
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In Maine's North Woods, some bird species are increasingly abundant. Scientists aren't sure why
Amid the bleak reports about a precipitous loss in numbers and types of birds around North America and the rest of the world is a glimmer of hope in Maine's North Woods.
Customer Reviews
Ayden
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Wonderful
Vermont is a very progressive state at and the podcast reflects it.
Good content but it’s too quiet
This podcast sounds like whispers compared to the other podcasts I listen to. I can barely make out what they’re saying over the rumble of the road while I’m driving. I can’t turn up the volume because once this podcast and the next one ends up being really loud.