Community forum: Board seeks reapportionment input

This week’s writer is Tom Little, chair of the Legislative Apportionment Board.The 2020 Census numbers for Vermont indicate that our little state grew by about 20,000 people over the past decade, or +2.8%. We also know that within Vermont our overall population has been migrating toward the northwest region of the state (Chittenden, Franklin and Lamoille counties), and away from the south and east. Moreover, there is a legislative mandate to break up the six-member Chittenden senate district (currently Chit … (read more)

This week’s writer is Peter Burrows, D.Ed., superintendent of the Addison Central School District, which serves Middlebury and six surrounding towns. When we voted in our seven towns to become a single educational community in March of 2016, we did so wit … (read more)

What, isn’t Vermont “Green”? Of course it is, right? Wrong. Green Mountain Power, which is owned by a Canadian natural gas distributor and supplies 70% of Vermont with electricity, claims that their energy supply is 94% carbon free and more than 63% renew … (read more)

The American Academy of Pediatrics Vermont Chapter, Vermont Academy of Family Physicians and Vermont Medical Society join Governor Scott and the Vermont Department of Health in calling on Vermonters to refrain from any social gathering in order to protect … (read more)