The Deeper Dig

How to spend a broadband windfall

Connecting Vermont’s most rural homes to high-speed internet has been a challenge for decades. Christine Hallquist, the incoming executive...

Can Vermont regulate religious schools?

A series of court rulings over the past year has chipped away at Vermont’s long-standing ban on sending public tuition dollars to religious schools....

Are Vermont's pandemic transplants here to stay?

It’s still too soon to know what the long-term effects of Covid-related migration might be. But many families who found their way to Vermont...

Ending the Covid emergency

The Covid-19 state of emergency gave the Scott administration the authority to maintain a vast social safety net during the pandemic. Landlords...

Hidden in plain sight

In Vermont’s idyllic small towns, injustice can lurk below the surface.

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