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Eric Westervelt Eric Westervelt is a San Francisco-based correspondent for NPR's National Desk. He has reported on major events for the network from wars and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa to historic wildfires and terrorist attacks in the U.S. For a decade as a foreign correspondent, Westervelt served as NPR reporter and bureau chief in Baghdad, Jerusalem, and Berlin. He's covered the Pentagon, the war in Afghanistan, and the U.S. invasion and troubled occupation of Iraq, including the insurgency, sectarian violence, and the resulting social and political tumult. He has repo...

Eric Westervelt Eric Westervelt is a San Francisco-based correspondent for NPR's National Desk. He has reported on major events for the network from wars and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa to historic wildfires and terrorist attacks in the U.S. For a decade as a foreign correspondent, Westervelt served as NPR reporter and bureau chief in Baghdad, Jerusalem, and Berlin. He's covered the Pentagon, the war in Afghanistan, and the U.S. invasion and troubled occupation of Iraq, including the insurgency, sectarian violence, and the resulting social and political tumult. He has repo...

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Print Two groups holding a small percentage of Sempra Energy stock have called for the San Diego-based Fortune 500 company to issue a report detailing how Sempra’s assets and lobbying activities align with the international Paris treaty regarding climate change. Sempra shareholders will vote on the proposal, put forth by Calvert Research and Management and the Putney School Inc. Endowment, when the company holds its annual shareholders meeting on May 14. Sempra’s board of directors has recommended a “no” vote, saying the company already provides sufficient information about sustainabi...

A Myanmar native with ties to Vermont is bemoaning the loss of her country’s fledgling democracy. “The safety net called ‘back home’ has been destroyed,” said Audrey Rowell, wife of Flint Rowell, a former Townshend resident and a Putney School graduate. “There is no future there. It’s basically a dictatorship and I don’t want to bring my son home to that.” Audrey met Flint in 2017 while both were attending Drexel University in Philadelphia. “We had a plan to have our son spend summers in Yangon,” said Flint. “He could learn the langu...