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The Deeper Dig

From Vermont's only member-supported digital news daily, VTDigger reporters go deep on key stories. Hosted by Sam Gale Rosen.

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With F-35 landing scheduled, protesters press on

With F-35 landing scheduled, protesters press on

The first two F-35s in the Vermont Air National Guard’s new fleet of fighter jets are scheduled to arrive in Burlington ... Read more

13 Sep 2019

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Why Bill McKibben keeps fighting after 30 years

Why Bill McKibben keeps fighting after 30 years

The Ripton-based author and activist, whose organization is helping to plan this week's Global Climate Strike, says much... Read more

18 Sep 2019

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Why Vermont colleges keep closing

Why Vermont colleges keep closing

Southern Vermont College is only the most recent in a wave of troubled New England Colleges planning to close. Some obse... Read more

8 Mar 2019

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Under new scrutiny, the church pledges change

Under new scrutiny, the church pledges change

Vermont's Catholic Diocese is taking a turn towards transparency following a wave of national stories about clergy misco... Read more

2 Nov 2018

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What Opportunity Zones mean for Vermont communities

What Opportunity Zones mean for Vermont communities

Federal officials billed the Opportunity Zone program, a vehicle for huge capital gains tax breaks, as a way to drive ec... Read more

6 Sep 2019

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More mergers loom under school plan’s next phase

More mergers loom under school plan’s next phase

As schools around Vermont go quiet for the year, the effects of the state's 2015 consolidation law are increasingly visi... Read more

15 Jun 2018

19mins

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Welch and Leahy look beyond the blue wave

Welch and Leahy look beyond the blue wave

Vermont's sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives says the incoming Democratic majority has big decisions to ma... Read more

9 Nov 2018

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Primary season starts early for 2020 hopefuls

Primary season starts early for 2020 hopefuls

The road to 2020 starts in Vermont’s backyard — and with the first primary debate coming up, some candidates appear fart... Read more

21 Jun 2019

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Competing climate bills in the Statehouse

Competing climate bills in the Statehouse

Support for a “Vermont Green New Deal” appears to be waning among lawmakers, while another climate bill — the Global War... Read more

29 Feb 2020

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Burlington Progressives take power — and plan their next steps

Burlington Progressives take power — and plan their next steps

Tuesday’s election brought victories for newcomers Zoraya Hightower and Jane Stromberg, effectively giving the Progressi... Read more

7 Mar 2020

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Upcoming elections will test Vermont’s voting laws

Upcoming elections will test Vermont’s voting laws

Daniel Jones was 22 when he shot and killed a drug dealer in a Burlington alley in 2002. He was an addict, he says, and ... Read more

10 Aug 2018

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Vermonters raise voices towards the southern border

Vermonters raise voices towards the southern border

As the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies continue to spark backlash around the U.S., Vermonters ar... Read more

5 Jul 2018

21mins

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Locals vs. the landfill

Locals vs. the landfill

Regional waste management giant Casella is taking one of the final steps towards state approval to expand Vermont's only... Read more

18 Jan 2019

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Hospitals struggle with psychiatric care

Hospitals struggle with psychiatric care

With medical hospitals around the state overwhelmed with mental health patients, officials see no obvious solutions in s... Read more

16 Nov 2018

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Vermont marriage equality turns ten

Vermont marriage equality turns ten

“If we failed, we were going to fail history,” then-House Speaker Shap Smith says about the climactic vote in 2009 that ... Read more

12 Apr 2019

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Seeking justice in the Steven Bourgoin trial

Seeking justice in the Steven Bourgoin trial

Over thirteen days in a Burlington courtroom, jurors weighed graphic accounts of the crash that killed five teenagers ag... Read more

24 May 2019

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Vermont's pension funding gap, explained

Vermont's pension funding gap, explained

There’s no single reason for the $150 million the state has to pay each year, on average, until 2038. But the decision t... Read more

5 Apr 2019

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Lyme patients in limbo as tick rates rise

Lyme patients in limbo as tick rates rise

Researchers say tick density in Vermont this year is going from bad to worse. But patients fighting tick-borne illnesses... Read more

14 Jun 2019

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Police body cameras bring clarity and questions

Police body cameras bring clarity and questions

A Vermont Supreme Court case and a wave of recent police investigations revolve around the use of body camera footage. A... Read more

26 Apr 2019

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CityPlace tensions resume, but construction doesn’t

CityPlace tensions resume, but construction doesn’t

More participation by Brookfield Properties was supposed to bring the $220 million development to a spring groundbreakin... Read more

3 May 2019

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