FOCUS
Producer
Description
Produced by Margaret Harrington and aimed at capturing people talking about their interests, issues and concerns.Programs in this Series
FOCUS host Margaret Harrington talks with Protect Geprag's Park activists Jane Palmer and Rachel Smolker who have been fighting Vermont Gas System's plan to construct a fracked gas pipeline across Geprag's Park in Hinesburg, Vermont....
James Marc Leas, patent lawyer from South Burlington, Vermont, talks with FOCUS host Margaret Harrington about how to cancel the dominance of the 1 percent over all levels of government that the Supreme Court created with its decisions in Buckley v...
Annette Smith, executive director of Vermonters for a Clean Environment, talks with host Margaret Harrington about why she continues to work on behalf of Vermonters who feel powerless in the face of state bureaucracies and big business. She...
Judge Ben Joseph talks with host Margaret Harrington about the delays and backlogs that persist in Vermont courts. The opioids scourge continues with babies born in heroin withdrawal. There is a pressure on judges not to impose jail sentences....
Channel 17 host Margaret Harrington gets together with Kevin Kamps, of Beyond Nuclear, Jane Palmer, of Rising Tide, Vermont, and Dr. Rachel Smolker, of Protect Geprag's Park, to talk about the unification of the Dakota Oil Access Pipeline...
Judge Ben Joseph informs us that Vermont spends less on its judiciary system than almost every state in the Union. Delays in the disposition of cases are causing lawyers all over Vermont to avoid the courts. Vermont judicial spending is less than 1...
Annette Smith, Director of Vermonters for a Clean Environment and Representative Marianna Gamache, of the Vermont Legislature Natural Resources and Energy Committee, talk with host Margaret Harrington about the installation of the first industrial...
Host Margaret Harrington talks with Annette Smith of Vermonters for a Clean Environment about bringing the wind issue to the Burlington audience and other areas which, so far, are not directly impacted by the 500 foot industrial wind turbines. The...
Host Margaret Harrington talks with Bob Herendeen, Burlington resident, who opposes the Burlington Town Mall Redevelopment Project in its presently proposed form. The Burlington resident is against the zoning change because taller is not better; it...
Host Margaret Harrington talks with Linda Maloney who has been in Philadelphia for the duration of the Democratic National Convention. They talk about the nomination of Bernie Sanders for president by Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Shyla...
Focus Host, Margaret Harrington, talks with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear about the massive rally for clean energy in Philadelphia on July 24, the day before the Democratic National Convention.
Kevin Kamps tells us who was there and why millions of...
Dr. Terence Cuneo and Kari Cuneo of Williston talk about how the fracked gas pipeline in Vermont has negatively impacted their lives.
Terence and Kari Cuneo of Williston, Vermont discuss the State of Vermont’s threat to seize their land by...
Host Margaret Harrington discusses the Vermont fracked gas pipeline situation with special guest Alex Prolman from Rising Tide Vermont. For the second time in less than a month, on Monday, April 18th, opponents of Vermont Gas Systems’...
Recorded on February 11th and Februrary 23, 206, Host Margaret Harrington talks with Bill McKibben of 350.org, Jane Palmer and Claire Broughton, Monkton landowners and Vermont Gas Resisters and Alex Prolman of Rising Tide about the Vermont Gas...
Hosted by Margaret Harrington. AARP-Vermont State Director Greg Marchildon, Annette Smith, Vermonters for a Clean Environment, and Jane Palmer, Monkton Landowner, talk about how the Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) and Department of Public...
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