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Author: James Finn

James is a senior at Middlebury College majoring in history and Spanish. He is currently editor at large at the Middlebury Campus, having previously served as managing editor, news editor and in several other roles there. James was a reporter this summer at the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and earlier was an intern at the Addison County Independent.
 

Barre votes to prohibit non-official flags on city property

By James Finn

Mar 2 2021, 9:42 PMMarch 3, 2021

After a long debate over whether to raise the Black Lives Matter flag in City Hall Park, voters approved a charter change that will prohibit non-official flags from flying on city property.


Scott said vaccines prevent spread of Covid-19, and so eased the rules. Was he right?

By James Finn

Mar 1 2021March 1, 2021

The governor suggested Feb. 23 that vaccines stop the virus from spreading from person to person. It’s more complicated than that.


On Town Meeting Day, Barre City looks to resolve Black Lives Matter flag debate

By James Finn

Feb 28 2021March 1, 2021

After a monthslong debate over which flag to fly in City Hall Park, voters will decide whether to prohibit flying special flags entirely. Controversies have dogged two city council races, too.


Senate to vote on exempting feminine hygiene products from sales tax

By James Finn

Feb 24 2021February 25, 2021

Tampons and pads

The bill, S.53, would lift the sales tax from products such as tampons, panty liners, menstrual cups and similar products “designed for feminine hygiene in connection with the human menstrual cycle.”


People’s United Bank bought by M&T Bank in $7.6 billion deal

By James Finn

Feb 24 2021February 25, 2021

People’s United accounts for more deposits than any other bank in the state. The merged bank will have more than 1,000 locations in 12 states.


State lifts travel quarantine for vaccinated people; hospitality sector, travelers, applaud

By James Finn

Feb 23 2021February 24, 2021

As the vaccine is distributed in Vermont and around the country, the change in travel restrictions offers a glimmer of hope to travelers and to hospitality businesses that have struggled under strict pandemic rules.


After data breach, new 1099s en route to unemployment insurance claimants

By James Finn

Feb 23 2021February 23, 2021

Michael Harrington

The state is working to finalize validation of 180,000 new tax forms, after documents with incorrect personal information were recalled.


Students push for police reforms on Vermont college campuses

By James Finn and Nora Peachin

Jan 18 2021January 18, 2021

Policing looks different on the three campuses examined by VTDigger: UVM has a full-fledged force, staffed by more than 30 armed officers, while Middlebury and Bennington don’t employ officers formally trained in professional policing.


Middlebury College revokes Rudy Giuliani’s honorary degree

By James Finn

Jan 12 2021January 12, 2021

In announcing earlier the degree might be revoked, President Laurie Patton cited “our responsibility for safeguarding and improving our fragile democracy, especially those of us privileged to be in higher education.”


Middlebury considers revoking honorary degree given to Rudy Giuliani

By James Finn

Jan 11 2021January 11, 2021

The role played by President Trump’s personal lawyer in ‘fomenting’ last week’s riot in the U.S. Capitol has moved the college to consider rescinding the degree Giuilani was awarded in 2005.


School for International Training adapts global education in a pandemic

By James Finn

Jan 10 2021January 10, 2021

How should international education work during a pandemic that largely prevents travel? In some ways, the question was a welcome one, SIT president Sophie Howlett said, ‘because we’re not going to be able to solve any of these problems by sitting in America and thinking within our borders.’


Vermont breweries carve out new distribution channels as pandemic wears on

By James Finn

Jan 6 2021January 5, 2021

Some have tapped into new markets, upping the quantity of beer they send out-of-state. Others have found new ways to deliver beer to Vermonters themselves.


Essex-based group delivers 3 million units of PPE nationwide

By James Finn

Dec 27 2020December 28, 2020

Anne Miller of Essex is executive director of Project N95, a “PPE clearinghouse” that connects people who need personal protective equipment to companies that make it.


In planning spring breaks, colleges balance student fatigue with pandemic safety

By James Finn

Dec 24 2020December 24, 2020

Vermont State Colleges sign

One problem: State guidelines ban traditional weeklong mid-semester spring breaks for colleges.


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