The very least people of color deserve is a thorough and open-minded consideration. Proposition 2 is an underwhelming response that doesn't rise to the occasion. Read the story on VTDigger here: Sen. Dick McCormack: Why I voted against the anti-slavery amendment.

At first glance, the dark figure on the trail looked like a small bear. But the form soon resolved itself into that of a man, an almost unimaginably skinny man.  His filthy clothes didn’t seem so much tattered as shredded. His face was dark and leathery, apparently from long exposure to the elements. This, the Read the story on VTDigger here: Then Again: After 37 days in the wild, ‘Are you Mr. Everts?’ ‘Yes. All that is left of him.’.

Since the 1980s, the number of middle-income Vermonters has shrunk by 7% while those with the lowest and highest incomes have grown. “The wealth gap between America’s richest and poorest families more than doubled from 1989 to 2016,” according to Pew Research. Read the story on VTDigger here: Maura Collins: Growing wealth gap hurts Vermont’s economy.

The 2020 ECOS report is different from its predecessors. Before this year, very few of the statistics in the report were disaggregated by race. Read the story on VTDigger here: Report finds striking disparities that affect people of color in Chittenden County.

Users logged into the state site only to find a stranger’s personal information on their account. Officials say the glitch was fixed in February — but they also can’t be sure there weren’t more incidents that went unreported. Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont Health Connect had 10 data breaches last winter.

Members of the House and Senate have the power to reform this law to satisfy environmental concerns while also permitting our communities to invest in themselves. Read the story on VTDigger here: Charles Martin: Act 250 and the stifling of economic opportunity in Vermont.

After the driest March in decades, experts are hoping for normal precipitation levels in April and May to avoid worsening conditions that are challenging the state’s ecology and industry. Read the story on VTDigger here: Dry air, fewer crops and ‘painting rocks’: How the drought is hitting Vermont.

The team behind Brattleboro’s $23 million Brooks House restoration and Bennington’s $30.7 million Putnam Block revitalization is juggling a Covid budget crunch and post-pandemic “pipeline of work larger than anything we’ve ever seen.” Read the story on VTDigger here: A Vermont developer’s challenge: Survive today to thrive tomorrow.

The Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Project is erasing all characteristics of a living ecosystem, and now it consumes one-more energy than it produces. Read the story on VTDigger here: Karl Meyer: Why renew a federal license to continue killing a river?.

Covid-19 variants are spreading in 10 of Vermont’s 14 counties, with Chittenden leading the state. That could be because the variants are driving case surges there, but it could also mean that higher case numbers in recent weeks have made the variant easier to detect. Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont case numbers tick downward; Franklin County recovers from outbreaks.