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South Burlington Residents Reject School Budget For Second Time

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published April 7, 2017 at 10:17 AM EDT

South Burlington residents have voted down the school budget for a second time.

The revised budget was defeated by a wide margin, with 56.9 percent of voters opposing the budget, compared to 43 percent voting for it.

Molly Walsh is a staff writer at Seven Days and she's been covering this issue. She spoke with VPR about the vote and what factors might have contributed to the budget failing to pass for a second time.

Listen to the full interview above.

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A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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