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Tinney: Vermont students shortchanged
Rutland Herald - Vermont
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Vermont’s students, among others, are shortchanged by exorbitant health care costs. Since the beginning of the year, Vermont Health Care 911 — a broad coalition of unions (including Vermont-NEA), business leaders, reform advocates, medical...
Infrastructure Work Kicks Off $5B Vermont All-Season Resort Expansion
Engineering News Record
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June 11, 2025
With road and waterline infrastructure work recently starting for a $5 billion expansion at the Eastern U.S.’s largest ski resort, the project team is navigating strict state regulations and difficult site grading on one of the largest...
Meet Emma Paris, Vermont's New Youth Poet Laureate
Seven Days - Vermont
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June 11, 2025
When Emma Paris embarks on a new activity, "I really want to be perfect at it right from the get-go, which," she admitted, "is not very realistic." But sometimes it works out. She wrote her first poem when she was 11 years old, submitted it to a...
White River Valley SU withdraws from the Vermont School Boards Association
The Mountain Times - Vermont
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June 11, 2025
By Corey McDonald/VTDigger The White River Valley Supervisory Union last week moved to withdraw its membership from the Vermont School Boards Association, highlighting deep divisions among the state’s school districts and supervisory unions over...
Beloved in this state but the site of historic calamities: The Connecticut River
Hartford Courant - Connecticut
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June 14, 2025
As Connecticut has untold numbers of rivers, brooks, streams, lakes and ponds, it doesn’t take long for a trickling stream to become a torrent, a meandering river to become a raging malevolence, a dammed body of water to break free of its man-made...
If you need K-12 education data, these 10 data tools from nonprofit research organizations can help
The Journalist's Resource
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June 10, 2025
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Close window X by Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist's Resource June 10, 2025 If you need K-12 education data, these 10 data tools from nonprofit research organizations can help by Denise-Marie Ordway, The...
The so-called equality of women in combat
Renew America
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By Rev. Mark H. Creech February 3, 2013 Comedian Robin Williams once argued, "If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars...just intense negotiations every 28 days." Apparently that's no longer true since Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made the...
New York Attorney General fights cuts to foreign aid impacting Caribbean
Caribbean National Weekly
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June 15, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James has joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general to challenge the Trump administration’s suspension of billions in foreign assistance funds—cuts that threaten critical global health, development, and disaster...
Feds release updated broadband rules as Vermont races to meet new deadlines
Vermont Public Radio
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June 10, 2025
Vermont will have to delay its rollout of a $223 million federal broadband project. The money was included in the Biden administration’s Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, but the Trump administration earlier this year put a...
The Slow Coup, Part 11
Renew America
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By Steve A. Stone April 3, 2025 Originally written on March 23, 2017 If there was ever a showpiece for progressive ideology, it was the Supreme Court Justice confirmation hearings for Judge Neil Gorsuch these past two days. What a spectacle! Well,...
N.Y. state assaults marriage
Renew America
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N.Y. state assaults marriage -- will disgrace overtake us? By Michael Bresciani June 29, 2011 The New York Senate passed the bill in a vote of 33 to 29, allowing gays to marry only a week after the N.Y. Assembly gave the bill the green light. Has...
Side down and all around
Renew America
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By Armand C. Hale August 14, 2010 If up is down and down is up, you know an incumbent politician is not just running for office but trying to convenience you he or she knows better than the common man (woman). Their downright arrogance is...
Road trip to Norwich, Vermont: Science museum, historic inn, craft breweries, bicycle tours
WMUR 9 - New Hampshire
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June 5, 2025
It’s a charming town right next to Hanover and just over the New Hampshire border. Norwich, Vermont, is just a short drive for many Granite Staters, and the area has a lot to offer.Montshire Museum of ScienceFamilies flock to the Montshire Museum...
Scientist at Plymouth conservation nonprofit dies in remote Alaska crash
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Schulte had traveled to Alaska to conduct conservation work, the statement said. He and the helicopter pilot were flying west from Prudhoe Bay to an area where he planned to outfit shorebirds with recording devices when the helicopter crashed on...
2025 Kids Count Data Book ranks Vermont second in nation in overall child well-being
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus - Vermont
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Vermont’s kids are better off than they were last year, according to the results of the 2025 Kids Count Data Book. Produced by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Data Book is a 50-state report released annually that analyzes how the nation’s...
It’s not identities; it’s ideas!
Renew America
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By Pete Riehm December 11, 2024 As the dust settles from the momentous 2024 presidential election, Americans seem to be breathing a collective sigh of relief. Hope and optimism are permeating people of all political persuasions, except for some...
Beta Technologies completes first passenger flight of all-electric aircraft coming to Utah
KSL - Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY — On-demand, electric air travel is inching closer and closer to becoming a reality in Utah after Beta Technologies landed a passenger-filled prototype last week at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Beta...
Data breach reported in firm handling Vermont Catholic abuse claims
VTDigger - Vermont
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June 9, 2025
The steeple of the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Burlington. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger The Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese is one of a dozen U.S. religious entities that have filed for bankruptcy whose digital information — potentially...
Bill aims to prevent AI from disrupting Vermont elections
WCAX - Vermont
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June 9, 2025
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - The impact of technology on Vermont elections will soon be up for debate at the Statehouse. Lawmakers will return next week for week four of overtime to vote on several bills, including one aimed at preventing artificial...
Made in Vermont: Max + Co Bakehouse
WCAX - Vermont
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June 9, 2025
ESSEX, Vt. (WCAX) - As you walk up the driveway toward Max Koestenblatt’s home bakery, an herbaceous smell washes over you. It’s a sure sign that he’s baking something good. “The amount of garlic that gets roasted in this house is unbelievable,”...