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Tess Vigeland
Host, Marketplace Money
A graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., Vigeland is a familiar voice to Marketplace and Marketplace Money listeners. She is a longtime public radio veteran, both as a reporter and host. Vigeland served as host of Marketplace Morning Report for three-and-a-half years and as substitute host on Marketplace.
Prior to joining the team at Marketplace, Vigeland reported and anchored for Oregon Public Broadcasting radio and television in Portland and at WBUR radio in Boston. She has covered numerous national and international stories, including the Northern Ireland peace talks in Belfast, the New England mob trials and the separate but tandem scandals around former U.S. Senator Bob Packwood and figure skater Tonya Harding.
Vigeland has earned numerous awards in her reporting career, including five Associated Press awards and three from the Society of Professional Journalists. For her coverage of the Packwood scandal, she received a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award.
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"I was wondering if there is really going to be any positive change in this whole oil thing. I hear stories about billionaire oil tycoons investing in wind, electric cars, hybrid cars, electric cars, hydrogen cars, and electric cars. It doesn't change anything, however, because we are still darting around the issue. We were born with legs. Cities were born with easy access ON FOOT. Why oh why do we still believe that a different sort of car is going to make things better? How about the idea of wasting all of our money fixing the sins of our grandfathers and creating walkable cities here in the U.S.? . . . When are we going to bring some life into our cities like they are supposed to be -- vibrant and alive and full of PEDESTRIAN traffic doing what people do when they don't have to worry about where they are gonna park? . . . " "
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