16+ hour, 23+ min ago  (302+ words) Letters to the editor are brief reader responses to stories and opinion pieces published by VTDigger. Letters give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger's views. To submit a letter, follow the instructions here. Having read a recent…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1604+ words) When Montpelier journalist Chris Graff wrote his 2006 memoir, "Dateline Vermont," he recounted the rise of such 20th-century politicians as the state's first woman governor, Madeleine Kunin; its chief executive who died in office, Richard Snelling; and its physician turned presidential…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (808+ words) Vermonters trek state forests, set up camp at state parks and hunt and fish in wildlife management areas on the sprawling 375, 000 acres of the lands the Agency of Natural Resources manages in Vermont." Now, proposed rules governing the management of…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (516+ words) A partial repeal of the controversial land-use law Act 181 is now official. Gov. Phil Scott signed S. 325 on Tuesday evening, marking a win for a broad coalition of rural landowners who organized en masse this year to protest against Act 181, a…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (367+ words) Vermont's homelessness response system is getting a restructure. Gov. Phil Scott signed H. 938 into law Tuesday evening, marking a rare moment of political agreement on Vermont's approach to homelessness. The issue has divided the Republican governor and the Democratic-led Legislature for…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1119+ words) This year's legislative session was dominated by one issue in particular: school district consolidation aimed at education reform. But lawmakers in the House and Senate also spent hours of committee work on other consequential education bills. Legislation around chronic absenteeism,…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (870+ words) Ben Doyle knows block parties. This time, though, he was in over his head. Last summer, Doyle decided to roast a whole pig for his Montpelier neighborhood's annual block party. Panicked, he left a voicemail for Richard Amore, a fellow…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (459+ words) This commentary is by Erin Roche, who is the director of First Children's Finance Vermont. She works with childcare businesses statewide on planning, financing and expansion. Housing is on everyone's minds these days: how to build more of it, and…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (741+ words) But in a small rebuke of President Donald Trump's provocations toward Canada and as a gesture of friendship between neighbors, the library on Wednesday opened a new entrance on the Canadian side of the border." "We are just one people,…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (897+ words) Garret Keizer was listening to a prison group talk about his quarter-century-old first novel, "God of Beer," when he felt gobsmacked. "It was quite humbling to have some of these young men quote passages to me that I couldn't even…...