State Auditor questions Vermont’s own assessment of how well the state is doing

State Auditor Doug Hoffer has called into question the state’s annual report on how well the government is doing, saying it’s overly optimistic        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Get to know Vermont’s Olympians — Here’s how to follow the athletes on social media

Once again, Vermont is well-represented at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Over 20 athletes with ties to Vermont are competing in Beijing.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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For a third year, Brattleboro to hold state’s only virtual town meeting

Retiring moderator Lawrin Crispe, left, has presided over Brattleboro’s town meeting online for the past two years. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger BRATTLEBORO — For a third pandemic year, this southern Vermont hub is preparing to hold the state’s only virtual official town meeting. Most Green Mountain municipalities decide budgets and other ballot questions at annual…

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With print news fading, lawmaker pushes to let digital-only platforms publish legal notices

Newspapers line the racks at Baker’s of Brattleboro. File photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger When The Hardwick Gazette stopped publishing a print paper in 2020 because of economic woes exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the paper was dealt another financial blow. The small Northeast Kingdom weekly could no longer pull revenue from legal notices — the…

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Vermont Conversation: The ‘pandemic-to-prison pipeline’ and the student mental health crisis

School resource officer Jason Ziter of the Winooski Police Department waves to a student outside John F. Kennedy Elementary School at the end of the school Sept. 28, 2020. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues with politicians, activists,…

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Vermont H.S. sports scores for Friday, January 28: See how your favorite team fared

Vermont high school and college sports scores and results as reported to the Burlington Free Press sports department.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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How UVM women’s hockey knocked off the No. 1 team in the country for the first time ever

Montpelier native Bella Parento’s third-period goal breaks tie and lifts Vermont to 2-1 win over No. 1 Northeastern on Friday.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Burlington mayor taps Jon Murad to be permanent chief, but City Councilors are not convinced

Jon Murad has served the Burlington Police Department as acting chief for the last year-and-a-half. Now, he’s up for the permanent job.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Final Reading: Hope you like hybrid

Neale Lunderville of Vermont Gas Systems testifies remotely before the House Committee on Energy and Technology at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday, Jan. 26. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Hopefully all of our dear readers are enjoying the House’s hybrid format because it’s sticking around for now. Legislators on Friday morning passed a resolution extending…

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Vermont Supreme Court swiftly denies Banyai’s motion to reargue Slate Ridge case

Daniel Banyai speaks to a group at Slate Ridge in Pawlet. Facebook photo The owner of Slate Ridge will not be able to reargue his recently closed case, according to a decision issued Friday by Vermont’s Supreme Court. The Supreme Court recently affirmed a lower court decision that ordered the controversial paramilitary training center in…

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As IT troubles bedevil the state, new child care subsidies don’t make it to low-income families

Amanda Sanville from Part 2 Kids leads a morning meeting at the childcare hub at the Allen Brook School in Williston on Sept. 15, 2020. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger As the pandemic and staffing shortages continue to destabilize Vermont’s fragile child care sector, the state’s leaders are scrambling to push millions in one-time federal…

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Bill Stenger is waiting to be sentenced in the Jay Peak fraud: Here’s what we know.

Federal prosecutors submitted a 100-page brief that details Bill Stenger’s involvement in the Jay Peak EB-5 fraud, prior to Stenger’s sentencing.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Where to go outdoor ice skating in Chittenden County

Lace up those skates — here around some of the best spots in Chittenden County to go ice skating.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Former VT Gov. Peter Shumlin: EB-5 fraud was “biggest disappointment of my life”

Former Gov. Peter Shumlin spoke to federal investigators about the EB-5 fraud that unfolded under his watch at Jay Peak in newly unsealed documents.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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John Bossange: Scott’s Covid missteps and the inhumanity of the unvaccinated

This commentary is by John Bossange of South Burlington, a retired middle school principal. We may ride through this latest Omicron tsunami with fewer and fewer infected and dead Vermonters, but it could have been different in our small state if we had a governor who ordered a temporary statewide mask mandate to offset those…

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Nick Santoro: Universal health care, and other things we need now

This commentary is by Nick Santoro, a resident of Rutland. With the deathly mess American government and the privatized medical industry have made with their Covid slapdash strategy, it seems a wee bit timely to design a universal health care system for those who need it (most of us), in conjunction with existing privatized health…

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David Flemming: Vermont’s unfunded liabilities aren’t just pensions

This commentary is by David Flemming, a policy analyst at the Ethan Allen Institute. When we talk about Vermont’s nearly $6 billion unfunded liability, most of us think about the teachers’ and state employees’ pensions. But these two giant liabilities account for only half of the state’s total unfunded liabilities. Where’s the other half? Well,…

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Poorhouse Pies moves out of the house and into a new space in Underhill

The beloved Chittenden County pie enterprise has gone through big changes of late, but is still doing big business with a new owner and a new location        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Vermont unlikely to see much snow in New England storm, forecasters say

A winter storm was expected to hit New England during the last weekend of January 2022. But, was Vermont forecast to see plowable snow?        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Vermonters Googled “How to homeschool” more than most of the rest of the country

Vermont families were looking into homeschooling over the last year more than almost any other state, according to search trends.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Ben Edgerly Walsh: A 2022 blueprint for bold, equitable, essential climate progress

This commentary is by Ben Edgerly Walsh, climate and energy program director, Vermont Public Interest Research Group; along with the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, Vermont Natural Resources Council, Vermont Conservation Voters, Conservation Law Foundation, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and the Vermont chapter of the Sierra Club. As the Vermont Legislature swings into gear,…

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Robby Porter: Knocking on wood, hoping for a new, better story

This commentary is by Robby Porter of East Montpelier, a self-employed woodworker and owner of small hydroelectric projects. I try to limit my superstitions to knocking on wood and not making predictions about the future.  Having winnowed my overt irrational belief system to these two pillars, I cling to them for support at the slightest…

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