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3 days ago | 
vermontpublic.org | Mikaela Lefrak |Jon Ehrens
Arts and culture organizations across Vermont have been notified that their federal grants from the National Endowment for the Arts have been canceled. Affected organizations include the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Folklife, and the Flynn Center in Burlington. Susan Evans McClure is the executive director of the Vermont Arts Council, which is the local partner agency for the National Endowment for the Arts.
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3 days ago | 
vermontpublic.org | Mikaela Lefrak |Jon Ehrens
The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against Vermont and three other states for legislation that allows them to sue oil companies for damage caused by climate change over the last 30 years. Vermont was the first in the state to pass such a law, called the Climate Action Superfund. Pat Parenteau, a professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Environmental Law Center, tells us about this lawsuit and the two other lawsuits coming from outside of the state and how they may play out.
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1 week ago | 
vermontpublic.org | Mikaela Lefrak |Eric Ford |Jon Ehrens
We’re excited to present a new podcast created by the nonprofit Vermont Folklife. It’s called The Arts That Shape Us. It’s devoted to exploring the state’s cultural heritage and what different local artforms say about the past and present of Vermont. This podcast is one of ten projects funded by Vermont Public’s Made Here Fund, created to support Vermont media makers. Vermont Folklife’s Director of Education and Media, Mary Wesley, hosts the show. In this first installment, she takes us to Barre.
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1 week ago | 
vermontpublic.org | Mitch Wertlieb |Jon Ehrens |Andrea Laurion
A new book, Quebec's Eastern Townships and the World: A Region and Its Global Connections, shines a light on the culture, history, and natural beauty found in the area known as the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
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1 week ago | 
vermontpublic.org | Mitch Wertlieb |Jon Ehrens
Vermont author Bailey Seybolt used marvel at the beauty of one old Burlington building. Her research unearthed a dark history. Seybolt sits down with Mitch Wertlieb to discuss her true-crime novel, Coram House, andthe notorious real-life abuses at St. Joseph's Orphanage it's based on. Broadcast live on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.Have questions, comments or tips? Send us a message or check us out on Instagram.
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3 weeks ago | 
vermontpublic.org | Mikaela Lefrak |Jon Ehrens
Vermonters and Quebeckers share much more than a border. We do business together, get our passports out for vacation, and visit family. But this year, the threads that hold us together have frayed. On Tuesday, Vermont Edition co-hosted a cross-border conversation in partnership with Radio Noon, a call-in program from the CBC in Quebec. Mikaela Lefrak and Radio Noon host Shawn Apel took calls and emails from listeners on both sides of the border about the current state of U.S.-Canada relations.
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4 weeks ago | 
vermontpublic.org | Mikaela Lefrak |Jon Ehrens
Vermont is at the epicenter of two high-profile arrests by federal immigration officers. Both involve pro-Palestinian university students, Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, and Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk. Our reporters covering these detentions, Sabine Poux and Lexi Krupp share the latest updates. The cases shine a light on changing federal immigration practices and Vermont's role in them. We also hear from immigration attorney Brett Stokes and state senator Becca White.
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1 month ago | 
vermontpublic.org | Mikaela Lefrak |Jon Ehrens
Programs for careers like welding, construction, and automotive tech are in hot demand. The Central Vermont Career Center, a career technical school in Barre, has more applicants than they have space to admit. A recent report by Vermont Public found that enrollment is up statewide at most of Vermont’s 17 career and technical education centers.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
vermontpublic.org | Mikaela Lefrak |Jon Ehrens
We were joined today by some of Vermont's finest folk musicians, Seamus Eagan, Moira Smiley and Yann Falquet, in front of a live studio audience of Vermont Public members and supporters. They brought their instruments along to perform their music and to chat with Mikaela about their inspirations, their love of folk traditions, and the local music scene. Seamus Egan is an internationally acclaimed Irish folk musician based in Vermont.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
vermontpublic.org | Mikaela Lefrak |Jon Ehrens
If you have a family member or loved one with Alzheimer’s, you know how devastating the disease can be. It’s a brain disorder that slowly destroys a person’s memory and thinking skills. Its effects are irreversible – the damage it wreaks on the brain cannot be undone. About 50 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s. It’s among the leading causes of death in the United States.
