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Partnership for Change Executive Director Hal Colston hosts Miriam Ehtesham-Cating, BSD English Language Learner Director, and Lynda Siegel, ELL Teacher in the STEP Program (Studying Toward English Proficiency).

For more information: www.partnershipvt.org

Rep. Mike Yantachka (D) and Chittenden Democratic Party Executive Committee member Bob Hooper welcome Vermont Democratic Party Executive Director Conor Casey. 

More information on Vermont Democratic Party: www.vtdemocrats.org  

More information on Chittenden County Democrats: chittdems.blogspot.com

Mayor Miro Weinberger hosts Department of Public Works Director Chapin Spencer and Bob Chamberlin of RSG in a discussion on this city project.

Winooski Mayor Seth Leonard shares updates on new City ordinances, new zoning and charter changes, as well as the continuing 2016 budget work.  He is then joined by State Representative Clem Bissonnette (D-Chitt 6-7) with a preview of the upcoming Legislative Session.

For more information: www.winooskivt.org  or Follow on Facebook

Burlington Representatives Joey Donovan (D), and Mary Sullivan (D) speak with Karen Lafayette, Legislative Liason with Vermont Low Income Advocacy Council.

More information at: www.vliac.org

If you can't come down to the studio, join us on the channel/online for CCTV/CommonGoodVT/Channel 17 annual holiday party.

www.ch17.tv

Rik Carlson, Director of ImmuneDysfunction.org is joined via skype by Dr. Kenneth J. Friedman, Ph.D, Author and Board Member of multiple national and international Chronic Fatigue Syndrome organizations, including VT CFIDS (immunedysfunction.org). The two share information on the activities and mission of VT CFIDS whose mission statement reads: The goals of the Vermont CFIDS Association are to: (1) raise public awareness of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), (2) support and advocate for Vermonters who suffer the debilitating symptoms of this and related disorders, and (3) facilitate the education of patients, families, healthcare providers and primary care physicians in order to validate and establish a recognized and acceptable protocol for the diagnosis and treatment of CFIDS.

More information available at:  www.ImmuneDysfunction.org

Host Melinda Moulton speaks with Peter Gilbert, Executive Director of the Vermont Humanities Council.

More information on the Humanities Council:  www.vermonthumanities.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VermontHumanities

Andy Simon and Ruby Perry, both of Save Open Space-Burlington (SOS-B), speak with Mike Winslow, Staff Scientist for The Lake Champlain Committee.

More info:

www.saveopenspaceburlington.org 

www.lakechamplaincommittee.org

www.southendalliance.org

Host Peggy Luhrs.

Concerned citizens Sandy Baird, Robin Lloyd, Peter Garritano, Kurt Mehta, and Jared Carter, try to make sense of the current affairs, national and international.

Attorney General Bill Sorrell and others welcome public thoughts and ideas at this forum. “Vermont leaders and legislators have taken many steps during the past two decades, both through policy and legislation, to ease prison overcrowding and minimize the need to send Vermont prisoners out of state,” said Sorrell. “In particular, I would like to hear whether Vermonters are ready to ask the Legislature to commit to a statewide policy regarding sentencing and release decisions that reduces reliance on incarceration or lengthy incarceration in response to criminal conduct.”

Representatives from law enforcement, corrections and human services officials, prisoner rights groups, victim advocates, and others join the Attorney General at this forum.

Host Bonnie Scott talks about the issues of the day.

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Ibnar Avilix, a Socio-economic Activist/Artist and Emerald Avilix, Painter and Poet, welcome Emily Anderson, Owner of Bluebird Fairies, offering products and resources to help others searching for tools to guide them through life's challenges.

More information at: www.bluebirdfairies.com

More information at: www.avilix.org and sossblogdotcom.wordpress.com

Essex Town Selectboard Chair Max Levy and Village President George Tyler are joined by Sue Cook and Ben Gilliam, both Working Group Members of the Thoughful Growth in Action, a committee looking at shared governance for planning functions in the Town of Essex and Village of Essex Junction.

More information on TGIA:  www.essextgia.com

More information at: www.essexjunction.org  and  www.essex.org