Owen Foster stepping down as chair of state’s most powerful healthcare regulator
His tenure has been defined by a harder line on reining in hospital budgets and insurance premium increases. He plans to stay on as a board member.
VTDigger is hiring fall reporting interns
Applications for the paid Jim Welch Internship Program are due Aug. 7.
Wanted: Large space for 100-bed emergency shelter in Chittenden County
If a suitable location is found, the year-round shelter would be the largest in the state, and could help stem the high number of people sleeping outdoors.
Vermont to give local news priority for state advertising dollars
Gov. Phil Scott signed an executive order Thursday that gives preference to local news organizations when deciding where to invest state advertising dollars.
Ex-Rutland City officer faces allegations of violating anti-bias policy, falsifying report
Nicholas Fontana is the second officer in recent months accused of violating the state-required Fair and Impartial Policing Policy while a member of the department.
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President Trump’s priorities could put a hefty portion of federal grants in Vermont on the chopping block under proposed rule
“Federal grants were politicized under the last administration to promote a far-left DEI agenda with projects like drag shows in Ecuador and transgender experiments on mice,” a government spokesperson wrote in an email to VTDigger. “That ends now.”
African high school students explore Vermont through a leadership program and cultural exchange
Project Harmony International’s Youth Ambassadors Africa Program hosts 65 students and 10 mentors from Africa in Vermont from July 10 to July 28.
Federal appeals court overturns Vermont judge’s ruling that released Mohsen Mahdawi
The Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist’s case should have been adjudicated in the federal immigration court system first, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit said Tuesday.
Vermont Conversation: Some joy, some tragedy. 2 Vermont authors on the struggles of rural living
Brett Ann Stanciu and Catherine Tudish bring characters and the fictional Vermont towns they inhabit to life in recent books set in the state.
Statehouse know-how or outsider’s perspective? The 2 Democrats who want to be Vermont’s next governor
Aly Richards says she’s the only one with the experience to hit the ground running. But Amanda Janoo says only she is the one truly thinking big.
VTDigger expands statewide news partnership with four southern Vermont newspapers
The growing network helps local newsrooms broaden coverage while bringing more stories from southern Vermont to readers statewide.
Opinion
Commentaries and letters to the editor written by community members and regular contributors.
Don’t blame incomers for Vermont’s housing woes
Sellers, not the people who bought their homes, set those “obscene” Covid-era housing prices.
Vermont schools should invest in student journalism
High school newsrooms teach students to report, think critically and engage with civic life.
Enough with the excuses. Help Vermont’s loggers.
Finch Paper’s closure is the latest in a string of mill shutdowns, and Vermont’s conservation policy is threatening the industry’s survival.
The new Route 7 project is a waste of money
The Pittsford-Brandon Route 7 project isn’t needed, and the funds would be better spent elsewhere.
Vermont-born Broadway musical ‘Hadestown’ returns home — as a movie
Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s modern take on ancient myths has traveled from a shoestring debut at Barre’s Old Labor Hall 20 years ago to a five-night state and national cinema run starting Friday.
Killing trees to save the forest: The deadly experiment to rescue the American elm
Researchers in Vermont infected 5,300 of the trees with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease in hopes that the survivors can eventually help build a genetically diverse and disease-resistant population. So far, the results are promising.
Is it safe to eat lettuce? Upper Valley experts answer key questions on cyclosporiasis outbreak
So far Vermont has had no cases linked to the national outbreak, a Health Department spokesperson said Monday.
Vermont Conversation: ‘I’m sorry that this isn’t what we promised.’ Immigration attorney Jill Martin Diaz on fear and hope in Vermont’s immigrant community
Martin Diaz, who is the executive director of the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project, warns that “rights and protections are being stripped away every day in mundane-seeming memos and orders from courts.”
Obituaries
Death notices and celebrations of life.
‘A step forward’: Deep in the new federal housing law, changes to disaster recovery funding are brewing
Although the new law about the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s long-term disaster recovery program leaves key questions open, experts say it moves in the right direction.