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BURLINGTON — Autism Spectrum Disorder affects approximately one in every 150 young children in America. In Vermont, the numbers are worse. ASD diagnoses in the Green Mountain State have increased by 20 percent per year since 1997 — compared to the national figure of between 10 and 17 percent.... Read more

Radio is a sound salvation. Radio is cleaning up the nation. Unlikely as it may seem, the lyrics to the chorus of Elvis Costello’s 1978 anti-establishment single “Radio Radio” may be more relevant now than they were nearly 30 years ago. Especially given the slow but unmistakable decline in the importance of traditional radio. To borrow a phrase, video killed the radio star. Then file sharing killed the video star. Now a host of auditory options, from satellite radio to iTunes, are vying to become the next techno-gladiator to dominate an increasingly crowded aural arena.... Read more

BURLINGTON — Nearly eight years after opening his downtown Burlington coffeehouse, Radio Bean owner Lee Anderson finally has a broadcast license to legitimize the word “radio” in its name. About two months ago, WOMM-LP, better known to local radio heads as “The Radiator,” began broadcasting 100 watts of locally produced content at 105.9 FM.... Read more

The year was 1996. Bill Clinton was celebrating the first days of his second presidential term with . . . um, cigars. Jamaican port authorities opened fire on Jimmy Buffett’s seaplane, “mistaking” it for a drug trafficking aircraft — with U2 singer/messianic wannabe Bono aboard, no less. MC Hammer, perhaps not quite legit enough to quit, filed for bankruptcy. Tupac Shakur “died” from gunshot wounds outside a Las Vegas hotel. The Pogues, Jawbreaker and The Ramones all disbanded.... Read more

When Lee Anderson opened Radio Bean Coffeehouse four years ago, he envisioned the tiny cafe in downtown Burlington would double as a 1950s-style storefront radio studio -- hence the name. And for those four years, Anderson waited patiently for the Federal Communications Commission to work out the political kinks and approve his application for a low-power FM license. LPFMs are noncommercial, community radio stations that broadcast a signal of 100 watts or less over a radius of about five miles.... Read more

More than a decade before schlock jock Howard Stern unleashed his campaign against the Federal Communications Commission for trampling on his constitutional right to talk about his penis on national airwaves, Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent was warning Americans about the pernicious effects of ownership consolidation in the U.S. media industry. But last week, Stern, Chomsky and other free-speech advocates had reason to celebrate.... Read more

One of the nice things about Vermont is that vacant lots usually don't sit vacant for long. Eventually, someone plants a garden there. Apparently, the same goes for the public airwaves.... Read more

For nearly 70 years, they've been called "public airwaves." But how long will it be before the term "public" becomes an anachronism?... Read more

Anyone peering into the new coffee shop on the corner of Pearl and North Winooski Avenue might presume from all the cappuccino-sipping, chess-playing, journal-scribbling patrons that this is just another Burlington java joint. But, come spring, a mini revolution could be brewing alongside the coffeepots at Radio Bean, shedding light on the shop’s seemingly nonsensical name.... Read more