Grand Isle County’s top prosecutor cited for DUI
State’s Attorney Douglas DiSabito was arrested Tuesday in a St. Albans courthouse on suspicion of drunken driving.
Vermont Conversation: One year after arrest, Mohsen Mahdawi refuses to be silent
When the Palestinian student activist walked out of federal detention in Vermont a year ago, he declared to President Trump: “I am not afraid of you.”
Vermont’s Champlain Valley poised to become a federally recognized wine region
“It gives us validity,” said Kenneth Albert, former president of the Vermont Grape and Wine Council, who originally submitted the petition for recognition in 2022.
Vermont argues that Trump administration provided no factual basis for voter data request
“We don’t want the federal government to have that level of information about individual Vermonters,” Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas said.
Vermont judge rules man accused of shooting three Palestinian students is competent to stand trial
“Belief in such extreme or conspiratorial ideas does not render one delusional in the sense of a psychotic disorder,” the judge wrote.
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John Grismore, embattled sheriff of Franklin County, won’t seek reelection
Grismore cited “moments of significant challenge, many of them highly public and deeply stressful” as a reason he was not seeking a second four-year term.
Vermont Conversation: Who killed abortion rights?
Journalist Amy Littlefield discusses her new book, “Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights,” in which she chronicles her meetings with key figures in the movement to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Once billed as the future of Town Meeting, the ‘Brattleboro Experiment’ is ending
The state’s only municipality to elect members to the equivalent of a local legislature is retiring the tradition after 65 years. What comes next is sparking its own debate.
Vermont won permission to use Medicaid funds for homelessness. It’s sitting unused.
“The idea of letting this opportunity go to waste when it is there right now is unconscionable, in my opinion,” said Jessica Radbord, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.
VTSU cuts diesel and automotive mechanic programs
Instead of the associate degrees, VTSU plans to offer “industry recognized credentials” in automotive technology and diesel power technology.
Vermont House Ethics Panel dismisses complaints against legislators who took paid trip to Israel
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Vermont shut down its power. Here’s how to turn it back on.
A decommissioned nuclear site, a data center boom and a senator whose moratorium push could cost thousands of jobs
This isn’t the time to throw people onto the street
A new bill would make evictions faster. But without fixing Vermont’s broken recovery, housing and health care systems, that speed comes at a human cost.
Stop pretending you don’t get it
The ‘No Kings’ movement isn’t about offering policy solutions — it’s about resisting a president who believes constitutional law doesn’t apply to him.
The lesson Vermont refuses to teach
Most states require or encourage Holocaust education. Vermont has nothing to say about it.
Defense seeks to toss top murder charge against driver in deadly chase that killed Rutland officer
“Particularly troubling is the documented efforts by police to withhold exculpatory information in an admitted attempt to influence the outcome of the trial,” the attorney wrote in a court filing this week.
Vermont State University labor leaders criticize administrators, citing staff attrition and stagnating wage
Three years after Vermont State University’s merger, staff and faculty say they’ve “borne the brunt” of financial cuts while administrative positions and salaries have increased.
Candidate steps up to run for Addison County prosecutor post held by embattled incumbent
Two days after the Vermont Supreme Court suspended State’s Attorney Eva Vekos’ law license, Peter Bevere, a Middlebury resident and current Rutland County deputy state’s attorney, announced he’s running for the Addison County job.
Big crowd at Brattleboro’s return to open Town Meeting backs ‘compromise’ budget
Nearly 300 residents — twice the attendance of past sessions with elected members — aimed to balance spiraling municipal costs and people’s shrinking ability to pay.
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On Montpelier’s edge, a vast tract becomes a possible bellwether of the city’s future
Between three developer proposals and the complex math of balancing affordability with economic opportunity, city councilors say there’s still a lot to consider about what to do with the former Elks Country Club.
