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What if you could decide what stories Vermont Public Radio should be covering, before they're even assigned? That's the idea behind Brave Little State, a podcast where you ask the questions, you decide what VPR investigates, and then you work with us to find the answers.
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Leave your grocery store apples at home and join our search for this most unusual Vermont fruit.
It’s a Brave Little State milestone! Vermont Public’s listener-powered journalism podcast published its 200th episode. To celebrate, the team set themselves a challenge: answer 20 listener questions in a single episode.
“There was this huge divide in, like, social grouping and connection … No one really talked to each other.”
The Midwest is home to five Great Lakes. But for a short time in the late 1990s, there were six — after one Vermont lake crashed the party.
Three reporters spent 12 straight hours at one of the busiest park and rides in the state — on one of the busiest travel days of the year — to get to know Vermont from a new perspective.
From the cosmic to the paranormal, this year’s investigation into three peculiar road names — Horn of the Moon, Scotch Hollow and Goodenough — took us to some unexpected places.
Vermont just passed a law banning the use of some pesticides that are known to kill bees. Quebec has had a similar law on the books for years. So we headed north of the border to see what we can learn from our Canadian neighbors.
The sale of the Vermont Lake Monsters in 2021 brought lots of changes. In some ways, it’s a story of renewal. But the more things change, the more they stay the same.
The Vermont state flag defies almost every rule of good flag design.
Join us as we tag along with three Vermonters who have given up their car keys — but not at the expense of their communities and friendships.
Wanting children, and not being able to have them, can lead to a lot of private hardship. We spoke to Vermonters about their experiences.
Vermont is one of nine states that still requires annual safety inspections for every car. Three frustrated listeners want to know — why?
Vermont’s logging industry has changed a lot over the last several decades. But one thing remains true: We just can’t agree about how to manage our forests in the face of climate change.
Reporter Myra Flynn brings us on a sonic journey across the globe from Los Angeles to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica to chat with expat Vermonters.
South Royalton has something that no other Vermont town does: a law school.
Stowe’s logo is everywhere, from gondolas to storefronts — even local police cars. It’s as if the entire town is part of one giant marketing campaign. One listener wants to know why.
Between 1945 and 1950, five people disappeared near Bennington. Seventy-five years later, the mystery has garnered a following around the globe.
Vermont health insurance is pricey, and getting more expensive quickly. For one listener in Montpelier, it’s just not adding up.
Most towns have one, but no two are exactly the same — and their stories are still unfolding.
When it comes to our trash, Vermont keeps it simple. Most trash ends up in Coventry, in the Northeast Kingdom. But it hasn’t always been this way — and we’ll soon need a new solution.
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