Midday Newscast April 30, 2008

Federal regulators say the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is not allowed to use funds set aside for decommissioning to pay for storing its spent fuel; a Vermont civil rights panel will focus in the next two years on immigration and possible racial profiling; more…

Interview: Jack McDevitt on racial profiling

People living in Vermont’s largest city will gather at the Unitarian Church this evening to hear about issues regarding racial profiling from one of the country’s leading researchers on the subject. The Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center invited Jack McDevitt to make the presentation. He’s been conducting research on racial profiling for more than 2 decades at Northeastern University, and is co-author of the book “Hates Crimes Revisited.”