Lt. Governor Candidate Mark Snelling

Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor Mark Snelling says he wants to lower taxes, relicense Vermont Yankee, and lower education spending.  As part of our series of interviews with major party candidates for the state's top offices, we learn more about Snelling's ideas and hear how he views his family's long legacy in Vermont politics.Listen

Also, last week Vermont's congressional delegation unveiled legislation that it says would help curb a milk surplus and would charge dairy farmers a fee if they produce more than a set amount of milk.  We hear from Vermont Farm Bureau president Jackie Folsom about why her organization supports supply management, after years of fighting such a policy. Listen

And, we visit a 1960s-era fallout shelter at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park to explore the link between the Cold War and the birth of the modern environmental movement. Listen