Ranked #1
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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Ranked #2
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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Ranked #3
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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Ranked #4
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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Ranked #5
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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Ranked #6
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
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19mins
Ranked #7
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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Ranked #8
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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Ranked #9
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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Ranked #10
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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Ranked #11
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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22mins
Ranked #12
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
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21mins
Ranked #13
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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Ranked #14
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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Ranked #15
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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Ranked #16
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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Ranked #17
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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Ranked #18
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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Ranked #19
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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Ranked #20
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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