VTDigger Minute is a weekly news digest from Vermont PBS. Tune in every Wednesday at 6 p.m. and Thursday at 6:30 a.m. to hear about the week’s top stories.
This week on the Minute:
Agency urges suspension of BHS guidance director
The Vermont Agency of Education wants a one-year suspension for Burlington High School guidance director Mario Macias after charging that he created a hostile work environment for colleagues. A state board will decide whether those charges should cost Macias his license.
Burlington High censorship could test Vermont’s ‘New Voices’ law
The BHS Register student newspaper first broke the story above, but the school’s principal ordered them to take it down. That move could now test a 2017 state law aimed at protecting student journalists. The newspaper’s editors have asked a legal nonprofit to weigh in.
‘We don’t want to be the dumping ground for all of New England’
Over 100 people crowded a public meeting in Newport this week to press state environmental officials on a proposed landfill expansion in Coventry. Vermont’s only open landfill is owned by Casella and takes about 70 percent of the state’s trash. Casella has initial approval for a 51-acre expansion, but neighbors in Vermont and Quebec are concerned about the environmental effects.
