Although a significant amount of fiber-optic cable has been installed in Vermont, the ‘last mile’ connectivity remains a steep investment challenge.
Schubart: Where’s the leadership on affordable broadband for everyone?
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: Pandemic provides opportunity for non-profit rethinking
An increased need for nonprofits’ help and more pressure on donors could create a chance to collaborate and consolidate.
Schubart: Vermonters — along with all Americans — are hostage to Pharma
The largely deregulated drug industry is one of the major drivers of increasing health care costs.
Schubart: Do we recapture the past, or face the challenges revealed by the pandemic?
Vermont has a unique opportunity to reimagine the future.
Schubart: How much wealth is too much?
Whether an influx of wealthy urbanites to Vermont will benefit the state remains to be seen.
Schubart: There’s hope as Vermont’s mediascape evolves
Local and regional papers provide a critical and cohesive civic and social fabric that sustains our threatened small towns.
Schubart: Vermont can no longer sustain its 14 hospitals
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’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.