The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman

Jan 29 2025 300 ep. 92543 mins 17
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The Vermont Conversation is a VTDigger podcast hosted by award-winning journalist David Goodman. It features in-depth interviews about local and national topics with politicians, activists, artists, changemakers and ordinary citizens. The Vermont Conversation is also an hour-long weekly radio program that can be heard on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. on WDEV/Radio Vermont.

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Facing 'systematic abandonment' by the Trump administration, Vermont refugees confront fear and uncertainty 

Jan 29 2025 26 mins  
Numerous refugees living in Vermont have lost support for food, rent and other basic needs after a funding freeze imposed by the Trump administration. Refugee assistance organizations lost access to federal funds on Monday, only to have a judge block the order on Tuesday, and have the government rescind the order on Wednesday. The situation has caused confusion and panic among newl

Bill McKibben on fighting for change under the new Trump administration

Jan 22 2025 49 mins  
Donald Trump launched his second term as president this week by enacting executive orders authorizing mass deportations, curtailing the rights of LGBTQ+ people, withdrawing from climate accords and pardoning his supporters who assaulted Capitol police officers. Flanked by an assortment of the richest men on Earth, Trump's inauguration vividly symbolized the dawn of a new age of oli

Sen. Phil Baruth & Rep. Jill Krowinski on what comes next after losing the most Democratic seats in the U.S.? 

Jan 15 2025 46 mins  
The 2024 election was a political tsunami that washed across the country and Vermont. The Green Mountain State led the national anti-incumbent wave: More Democrats lost seats in Vermont than in any other state, with more than two dozen Democratic state lawmakers losing their re-election bids. Though Democrats still retain the majority in the State House, the election erased the Dem

Journalist and artist Myra Flynn on creating a "righteous space for art and race"

Jan 08 2025 52 mins  
Myra Flynn performs on many stages, shape shifting between music and journalism. She is an accomplished songwriter andsinger, performing soul, jazz and indie pop with five albums to her credit. She is also a journalist with a unique voice in Vermont’s media landscape. She is executive producer and host of Homegoings, a program on Vermont Public that launched in 2021 and brands it

Best of Vermont Conversation: Author Julia Alvarez on borders and bridges

Jan 02 2025 28 mins  
The acclaimed author Julia Alvarez is the longtime writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her novels include, “How The García Girls Lost Their Accents” and “In the Time of the Butterflies.” She's also a prize-winning poet, children's author and essayist.Alvarez’s most recent novel, “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” was published in 2024 and will be published in p

Best of the Vermont Conversation: A new Santa Claus is coming to town and ‘he is a uniter’

Dec 26 2024 46 mins  
This Vermont Conversation was originally published on Nov. 23, 2022.Santa Claus is coming to town. But the person shimmying down the chimney may not be the rotund, bearded white man who has long played the role of St. Nick.“Santa Camp” is a new documentary from HBO Max about an effort to diversify who represents Santa Claus. The story begins at the annual summer camp of the New

Million meter man Noah Dines on his record-setting year of living strenuously

Dec 19 2024 31 mins  
For Noah Dines, life has been an uphill climb. And that is his dream come true.Dines, a 30 year-old Stowe local, is in the process of setting a new world record for human powered vertical feet skied in one year. The previous record had been 2.5 million feet set in 2016 by Aaron Rice, another Stowe skier. Dines broke Rice’s record in September, then surpassed his original goal of

Civil rights and environmental leader Ben Jealous on fighting and winning in tough times

Dec 11 2024 29 mins  
Ben Jealous has a long and deeply personal perspective on the fight for social and environmental justice.Jealous was elected president and CEO of the NAACP in 2008 at the age of 35, making him the youngest person to lead America’s oldest civil rights organization. Since 2022, he has been the executive director of the Sierra Club, the first person of color to lead one of the count

John Rodgers and the future of Vermont politics

Dec 04 2024 35 mins  
John Rodgers is the most interesting man in Vermont politics. And he just may be its future.The Democrat-turned-Republican who just won the race for Vermont's lieutenant governor did something that has not been done since 1815: he became lieu...

Elizabeth Price on the anniversary of her son, Hisham Awartani, 'being alive'

Nov 27 2024 52 mins  
One year ago, Elizabeth Price was awoken by a phone call with news that every mother dreads: Her son, Hisham Awartani, had been shot, along with his two best friends. It was Thanksgiving 2023, and the three 20-year old college students — all of them Palestinian or Palestinian-American — were taking a walk while visiting Awartani's grandmother in Burlington. The shocking, unprov