Addressing Vermont’s housing crisis is one of the Legislature’s top agenda items this year — as it has been for the last four years. There are many factors creating the challenge we face. Vermont been underbuilding new housing units since […]
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New Americans and farmers find purpose and prosperity
An innovative initiative is underway in Vermont: The Grow America Farm Corps initiative addresses Vermont’s farm labor shortages by fostering dynamic collaboration among local farmers, new Americans, and supporting partners. Farmers with employment opportunities can sign up to match with […]
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Nearly 30,000 Vermonters have lost Medicaid coverage in the past 8 months
By Peter D’Auria/VTDigger In 2022, Erin Kellar was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Kellar had enrolled in Vermont’s Medicaid health insurance program as a graduate student, and was able to stay in the program while she began her career as a […]
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Tensions continue
Last week marked the start of the 2024 Vermont legislative session. It also included the governor’s State of the State address to a joint assembly of House and Senate members. (Editor’s note: see page 1 for related story). Scott opened […]
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Flood recovery is priority at start of new session
On Jan. 3 at 10 a.m., the Vermont Legislature opened its 2024 legislative session. As it is the second half of a two-year biennium, we spent far less time on the formalities, pomp, and circumstance of a new biennium. And, […]
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Will it be time for the ‘NO’ sign again?
By Rep. Jim Harrison Quite a few years ago, I remember visiting the House Appropriations Committee at the State House, where there was a prominent sign on the wall, “NO, is it the N or the O that you do […]
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UVM offers full-ride scholarship opportunity to student entrepreneurs
Submitted Opening date for applications is Jan. 15 The University of Vermont’s Vermont Pitch Challenge is a new entrepreneurial-focused competition that gives high school students from across the world in grades 10-12 a chance to pitch innovative and impactful […]
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Housing crisis could interfere with Vermont efforts to resettle 550 refugees by next fall
By Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen via U.S. Air Force U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, load passengers aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at […]
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In Vermont schools, conservative legal groups have become a potent force
Outside organizations are increasingly challenging the state regulations on religious schools, defending transphobia, and weighing in on local policies and events By Peter D’Auria/VTDigger Last February, the girls’ basketball team at Mid Vermont Christian School, a pre-K-12 private school in […]
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VCRD seeks to help communities become more climate economy resilient
The Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD) seeks “Climate Economy Resilient Community” participants for 2024. Community leaders and/or volunteers can now submit a simple online application that will be reviewed on a rolling basis until Jan. 12, 2024. Through […]