The Vermont Dept. of Health reports the Super Bowl party game plan from Coach Fauci: “You don’t want parties with people that you haven’t had much contact with. You just don’t know if they’re infected. So as difficult as that is, at least this time around, just lay low and cool it.”

The staff of Vermont's largest abortion provider have joined the American Federation of Teachers and look forward to bargaining for a new contract.

2020 was a year to forget for the Vermont Department of Labor. A big, interstate IT revamp plan fell apart, the pandemic hit, and then the crotchety old computer system itself crashed under the weight of State-of-Emergency-related unemployment claims. At one point the governor himself was delivering the unemployment checks to the post office! Now the 1099’s for the Year That Shall Not Be Named have been recalled, due to a ‘printing error.’

Budget issues and a letter signed by ‘50 prominent Vermonters’ including three former Democratic governors bashing the Vermont press for its sexist and racist bias.

What to do with the aging self-propelled diesel commuter train cars he bought? Green entrepreneur David Blittersdorf announced recently he wants to add electric Tesla batteries as a power source. Major challenges of costly retooling and track replacement remain, however.

Business and housing groups applaud Gov. Scott for stepping up with funding for Vermont’s housing crisis, and keeping the tax rate flat.

How bad has the pandemic and related emergency measures hurt the Vermont economy? The “hockey stick” graph tells the story. Last year at this time 1100 people filed for unemployment. In March the line on the chart jumped straight up. Now the figure is over 1800, and rising.

How do we get reluctant Vermonters to ‘do their part’ to help Vermont reach 75-90% immunization of the population necessary for “herd immunity’? Easy, a UVM Medical School study says: pay them.

It took 315 days - the longest in the nation, for small, rural, socially-distancing Vermont to reach 10,000 Covid cases.

Vermont Fish & Wildlife will spend federal money to buy more agricultural and wetlands for conservation and pollution reduction.