If Vermont is going to scale up primary care, health advocates say this one funding priority is crucial
The House-approved budget for next fiscal year gives scholarship and loan repayment programs more money than the governor originally proposed, but many worry it will not be enough.
Lawmakers visited a state prison — but press wasn’t welcome
Also in Final Reading: Could schools take a Luddite approach? And data privacy for Vermonters.
Vermont Conversation: Who killed abortion rights?
Journalist Amy Littlefield discusses her new book, “Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights,” in which she chronicles her meetings with key figures in the movement to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Dartmouth names first woman to lead medical school
Hunt, a pathologist, will be the first woman to lead the medical school, which was founded 229 years ago in 1797.
Vermont bill would create standard policy for school districts should ICE come knocking
Also in Final Reading: Regulating massages and campaign announcements.
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House panel opts for voluntary school merger proposal. It faces a tough path forward.
The education reform plan comes after weeks of deliberations but still faces significant political hurdles, with the governor saying he cannot support it.
Cock-a-doodle-don’t? Vermont towns can’t agree on roosters.
“You can order someone with a barking dog to keep their dog inside. You can’t really order a rooster to be kept inside the home,” said Chip Sawyer, St. Albans planning director.
US Forest Service cuts research positions at local lab
The U.S. Forest Service announced national reorganization plans Thursday, cutting its research and development headquarters at a University of Vermont laboratory.
Trucker’s brief detour into Canada leads to 3 weeks in federal custody
A U.S. judge in Vermont ordered the man’s immediate release “given the nature of the constitutional violations in this case.”
Once billed as the future of Town Meeting, the ‘Brattleboro Experiment’ is ending
The state’s only municipality to elect members to the equivalent of a local legislature is retiring the tradition after 65 years. What comes next is sparking its own debate.
Vermont won permission to use Medicaid funds for homelessness. It’s sitting unused.
“The idea of letting this opportunity go to waste when it is there right now is unconscionable, in my opinion,” said Jessica Radbord, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.
Opinion
Commentaries and letters to the editor written by community members and regular contributors.
Don’t lock up Vermont’s working forests in the name of conservation
Wild land has its place. But converting working forests to wilderness could gut Vermont’s rural forest economy.
The sound of silence
On April 10, students across the country will go silent to protest the discrimination, bullying and harassment still faced by LGBTQ+ youth.
When Democrats forget democracy
Vermont’s Democratic Party claims to champion inclusion — but a four-person committee, all of whom live in the same ward and two under the same roof, just decided who gets…
Vermont wants to fix child care. This bill will make it worse.
Vermont already has the most restrictive child care regulations in the country. S.206 would add even more.
John Grismore, embattled sheriff of Franklin County, won’t seek reelection
Grismore cited “moments of significant challenge, many of them highly public and deeply stressful” as a reason he was not seeking a second four-year term.
Brattleboro hospital and its nurses reach tentative agreement to avert strike
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital still faces threats of a walkout by support staffers as it tries to balance a $14.5 million budget deficit.
Aly Richards, former head of Let’s Grow Kids, launches bid for Vermont governor
“You’ve got to ask yourself: Are you better off now than you were 10 years ago?” the Democrat said, pointing to when Gov. Phil Scott was first elected. “It’s time for a new approach.”
Blocked from police work in Vermont, ex-Addison County sheriff faces possible new black mark
A state panel has set a hearing for Peter Newton that could result in his placement on a national database that employers use when hiring officers.
Obituaries
Death notices and celebrations of life.
Jackson Dam removal advanced in Hardwick
The dam is classified as a Significant Hazard due to the property losses and damage to downstream infrastructure that would result from its failure.
