Some public health experts are suggesting that if/when the vaccine is approved, it should be sent first to the states with the highest rate of viral infection. If so that’s bad news for states that have made the sacrifices necessary to successfully fight the virus - states like Vermont.

A new report says that in Vermont’s largest city, black people are arrested at four times the rate of white people - even though overall arrests are down. Biased policing, or is something else at play?

The Chittenden County lawmakers who zealously pushed the food scraps law don’t have to worry (as much) about hungry bears. But the State of Vermont recognizes the threat and has issued an advisory on how to make your compost as unappetizing as possible. Carbon-emissions trip to the local food scrap drop-off center, anyone?

A US Supreme Court decision has opened the door for some public funding of religious education. Should public money funding private education be extended to religious private education?

State health officials are watching Covid clusters in Chittenden, Rutland and Windham counties.

The disposal paper cup was invented as a solution to germ transmission. But now the disposable plastic bag is being eliminated in the middle of a pandemic, per fiat of the Vermont Legislature and the executive branch.

As the Legislature prepares to adjourn this week and return in August, the last big job is passing the three-month budget. Gov. Scott and the Legislature can’t agree on how quickly to dispense the $1.25 billion in federal recovery money, and who should get it.

A UVMMC emergency room doctor who police say installed hidden cameras in hospital bathrooms has now been indicted on federal child pornography charges carrying a 15-year minimum sentence.

With a big bucks boost from Uncle Sam, Vermont’s public transportation fleet continues to “go electric.” Vermont now has 12 all-electric large vans.

Speed was a factor in the death of a Bethel woman whose Subaru crashed at a road construction site.