The state must focus on how to right-size its health care infrastructure and professional providers to meet the needs of Vermonters in a rapidly shifting environment.
Schubart: Vermont can no longer sustain its 14 hospitals
Author: Bill Schubart
Bill Schubart is a retired businessman and active fiction writer, and was a former chair of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the parent organization for VTDigger.
Schubart: Vermont’s mixed history on race
Honesty calls us to remember the dark underbelly of racism and economic privilege that persists even today in Vermont.
Schubart: Lest we forget, the economic engine is powered by the people
The economy, in and of itself, is not an entity to be preserved above all else for the benefit of those who extract wealth from it.
Schubart: Building a regional food supply system out of the pandemic
Vermonters turning in greater numbers to their neighbors for food and local farmers are seeing an upsurge in direct local buyers. That trend must be encouraged.
Schubart: A vision for higher ed in Vermont
We must understand education as part of a social and economic constellation that includes businesses, corrections, civic institutions, other private and public schools, and the communities in which they’re resident.
Bill Schubart: Envisioning a brave new world
We have an opportunity to reimagine a democracy in which human and natural life are sustained to form the basis of an equitable economic revival.
Schubart: Long-term effects of childhood traumas are serious and costly
The significance of ACEs — adverse childhood experiences — is becoming increasingly understood and addressed.
Schubart: Flatten the curve by reducing prison population
We have in place a network that works with the criminal justice system that can marshal forces to test and decarcerate as many offenders as is safe.
Schubart: Bring public scrutiny to ‘death by cop’
How well-defined are the events that justify the use of deadly force and how well are potential users of it trained?
Schubart: Cross-sector collaborations could produce big results
If the government, nonprofit and business sectors worked together, a lot of progress could be made.
Schubart: College stresses beyond demographics
Vermont colleges are vital to the state’s economy, but they need to examine their methods and missions and be creative to survive.
Schubart: Joining the electric-car ranks, with a boost from ‘Greta’
‘OK boomer,’ I said to myself, ‘it’s your turn to help leave a habitable world for the next generation.’
Schubart: Prison reform — invest in people, not punishments
Our entire criminal justice system reflects our belief in punishment as a deterrent to crime.
Schubart: Let’s be the best place in America to live, be educated, and do business
Do our politicians have any understanding of what would motivate a potential employee to move to Vermont? It’s not petty cash, broadband, or a season pass to Stowe.