Heads-up: Evening traffic snarls ahead for Winooski circulator

Midweek, heavy equipment will take possession of the western side of the Winooski circulator, reducing it to single-lane traffic at times.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Drawbridge linking Grand Isle with North Hero is back in action for the season

Motorists and mariners take note: The temporary drawbridge between Grand Isle and North Hero is back in action for the season, so plan accordingly.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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A lot to celebrate: Here’s how schools observed prom and graduation as COVID wanes.

There is much to celebrate at the end of a tumultuous school year as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes. What Vermont proms and graduations looked like.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Wavell Cowan: A different perspective on government debt

This commentary is by Wavell Cowan of Montpelier, a research scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, businessman, social activist, and author. Tom Wagner argues that rising government debt is not a problem. Deficit spending is a consequence of the fact that the financial sector creates the new money required by the economy. This is great for the financial…

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John McClaughry: Three lawsuits that will change Vermont education

This commentary is by John McClaughry, vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute and is a former vice chair of the Senate Education Committee. In three lawsuits currently in process, plaintiff parents ask that public funds follow their children to the school of their choice. The impetus for those suits was the U.S. Supreme Court’s…

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Jody Fried: Vermont’s creative sector is organic fertilizer for all other sectors

This commentary is by Jody Fried, steering team chair of the Vermont Creative Network and executive director of Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury. It’s part of a series about the CreateVT Action Plan’s three vision statements. This one: “Vermont communities thrive through creative expression and enterprise.”  If you didn’t know better, you might think the…

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Profiles in Resilience: Qiaochuhan Li

Editor’s Note: The Underground Workshop is an open platform for student journalists across Vermont. Profiles in Resilience is an invitational series, seeking submissions through 2021. For more information please contact the workshop’s editor, Ben Heintz, at ben@vtdigger.org. by Kaitlynn Cherry, Burr and Burton Academy On March 23, 2020, Qiaochuhan Li sat in her room reading an email. …

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Vermont’s congressional delegation is split on tax hike

Sen. Bernie Sanders. File photo by Mike Dougherty President Joe Biden wants a hike in the corporate tax rate to pay for a $2 trillion infrastructure overhaul, and Congress is set to debate the proposal this week.  Senate leadership is settling on a 25% corporate tax, a figure Biden has said he could support. The…

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Investments spur tech manufacturing at GlobalFoundries and Beta Technologies

A flight simulator for Beta Technologies’ ALIA-250, which can take off and land vertically and then transition to long-range flight. Courtesy photo Developments announced this week by a pair of Chittenden County businesses have strengthened the case for the region’s future as a hub of innovation — particularly in wireless technology and electric aircraft.   Beta…

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How Free Press newspaper carrier jumped into action to fight Jericho house fire

Dave Garner delivers copies of the Free Press. During one of his late night drives, he noticed a fire progressing along a home in Jericho.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Final Reading: The year of Zoom

The Vermont Statehouse is visible from across the Winooski River in Montpelier on May 20, 2021. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger The year of Zoom has officially ended — as has this season of Final Reading. The Vermont Senate adjourned for the 2021 legislative session at 3:30 p.m. and the House followed suit at 4:53 p.m.,…

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Burlington’s Roman Catholic Diocese is served with another sexual abuse lawsuit

Vermont’s Catholic Church is headquartered in South Burlington. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger The Roman Catholic Diocese in Burlington has been served with another lawsuit alleging that a priest sexually abused a young boy in the 1970s.  The lawsuit filed in Chittenden County Superior Court on Tuesday alleges that the church negligently employed and assigned throughout…

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More Vermont towns move to lowest category of Covid case growth

For weeks, the number of communities in the highest category of Covid-19 case growth has tanked, according to the Department of Health.  Only three communities in the state — Westfield, Averill and Brunswick — have more than 80 cases per 100,000 residents in the past two weeks. Each has a population of less than 1,000.…

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Carolina Wenniger: The degrowth movement and the fight for Indigenous sovereignty

This commentary is by Carolina de Buy Wenniger of Burlington, a sophomore at the University of Vermont. The U.S. is fixated on the ideal of endless consumption, increased wealth and economic growth. This fixation is often calculated in the form of gross domestic product growth and takes place at the expense of people and the…

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Jim Condos: Contrary to the big lie, Vermont elections are safe and secure

This commentary is by Jim Condos, Vermont’s secretary of state. The big lie, perpetuated by former President Trump and some of his supporters, is that our elections are not secure. These dangerous and disingenuous claims are made without evidence to support them.  The former president and his supporters have filed over 60 lawsuits across the…

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UVM clerical, technical workers vote to unionize

Ira Allen Chapel on University Row on the University of Vermont campus in Burlington on Thursday, June 6, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Several hundred clerical and technical workers at the University of Vermont have voted to unionize with the American Federation of Teachers. Nearly three-quarters of workers voted in favor of unionization, which passed…

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Shawn Shouldice: Legislature, it’s time to hit the ‘leave meeting’ button

This commentary is by Shawn Shouldice, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, which advocates on behalf of a thousand small businesses in Vermont. In a time when businesses are trying to recover from a government ordered shutdown due to Covid-19, some Vermont lawmakers look to pour more salt in their wounds by…

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Sanders moves to block $735 million arms sale to Israel, citing deadly conflict in Gaza

Sen. Bernie Sanders in March 2020. Photo by Mike Dougherty U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced legislation Thursday to block a $735 million weapons sale to Israel, citing its military offensive in the Gaza Strip.  The resolution is the latest Sanders effort to address the conflict, which has wrought destruction in Gaza, home to about…

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Activist accused of contempt in connection with Barre man’s disappearance

Lee Morrigan, left, with attorney Avi Springer, faces contempt charges in a Barre courtroom Thursday, May 20. At right is Washington County State’s Attorney Rory Thibault. Photo by Grace Elletson/VTDigger An activist who has criticized law enforcement’s handling of a Black Barre man’s disappearance has been charged with contempt for not sharing information with the…

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YWP: ‘Skipping Stones’

Young Writers Project, an independent nonprofit based in Burlington, engages young people to write and use digital media to express themselves with clarity and power, and to gain confidence and skills for school, the workplace and life. Check out the most recent issue of The Voice, Young Writers Project’s monthly digital magazine. Click here. Each…

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Education finance reform bill headed to the governor’s desk

Sen. Phil Baruth, D/P-Chittenden, speaks at a Senate Education Committee meeting in February 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A bill that sets Vermont on a path to overhauling its K-12 education financing system is now headed to the governor’s desk. S.13, which has now cleared both legislative chambers unanimously, is both a punt and a…

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Scott vetoes juvenile records bill, ties record set by Dean

Gov. Phil Scott at his ceremonial office at the Statehouse in Montpelier in February 2020. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Updated at 4:47 p.m. Gov. Phil Scott vetoed legislation late Thursday that would have prohibited police from publicly identifying individuals under the age of 19 arrested for certain crimes. The veto was Scott’s 21st since…

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