Community forum: Poverty limits school success

It’s no surprise that the latest educational report of the widening gap in student performance in Vermont’s public schools is between students of means and those who live in poverty.

Community forum: ACSD is taking concrete steps to fight racism

We hear community members calling for us to do better and to respond. We want to share with certainty: We have moved beyond acknowledging the problem. We are committed to doing the work that will make change within our schools. 

Community forum: ACSD must confront racism

I share my story for those who feel invisible, who can’t speak because it could jeopardize their jobs, for those whose BIPOC children are struggling and they have no choice but to keep them in our public schools, and for those who have been silenced.

Community forum: Building a case for linguistic justice

Because the standard way of speaking English happens to be the way many white, educated, powerful people speak English, speakers who don’t lay claim to those identities or deviate from that way of talking are conceived of as having an accent.

Community forum: Porter budget aims to improve patient care

This week Porter Medical Center, along with our two Vermont partner hospitals in the University of Vermont Health Network, presents our fiscal year 2024 budget to Vermont’s health care regulator, the Green Mountain Care Board, for approval.

Community Forum: Heyer presented truth with love

Walt Heyer, de-transitioner and international speaker on the risks and complications of so-called “gender-affirming care,” presented truth with love at Vergennes Union High School last week that pierced through rhetoric from individuals, organizations and … (read more)

Community forum: The bargain Vermont needs

We are optimists at our core: across Vermont, we see plenty of reasons to believe that progress is possible.

Community forum: AG’s decision ‘dangerous, chilling’

The recent decision by Attorney General Charity Clark to charge two Vermont State troopers with simple assault and reckless endangerment is bad judgement.

Community forum: EMS providers always ready

In 1974, President Gerald Ford authorized National EMS Week to celebrate Emergency Medical Services practitioners and the important work they do in our nation’s communities.

Community Forum: A New England dream home should be sustainable

Embodying the New England dream entails not only appreciating the region’s natural beauty, history and culture, but also actively engaging in the community and building a sustainable home.

Community Forum: Growing old can be a joyful wisdom

When I was 70, I felt as though my life was beginning. At 80, I began to sense that there are limits. But now, at 91, I know that I am old. 

Community forum: Energy strategy change needed

I’ve spent a lot of money for my small contribution to address climate change. But, can you afford to?

Community forum: Careful logging actually a boon

As one of the owners of a lumber mill in Bristol, I certainly have an interest in the harvest and the overall principles at stake. I also have a daughter, for whom I care deeply, and wish for her future a livable world.

Community forum: Affordable Heat Act: How it works

As a physics teacher, I used to give an assignment that asked students to do an informal energy assessment of their own homes using resources from Efficiency Vermont.

Community forum: Green energy a winning strategy

It’s 2023 and the question is no longer “is climate change here” but “what is Vermont going to do to stop it?”

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