How can "Intimate details of a person's life, including any information that might subject the person to embarrassment, harassment, disgrace, or loss of employment or friends" count as a public records exemption? Being bad at your job is embarrassing.

Instead of receiving medication to treat their opioid addiction, 15 incarcerated people received opioids. Vermont’s new prison health care provider is off to a great start

"Well, I'm tired of dirt roads named after..." Noah Kahan's "Homesick" captures the frustrations of life in small-town Vermont. This map captures the mileage of unpaved roads compared to paved roads in each VT municipality. #vtpoli

John Jeremiah Sullivan's return from radio silence to write about shit but in a move you to tears kinda way harpers.org/archive/2023/0…

Two days after we reported that Matthew Morgan was serving 4 years due to a dismissed shoplifting charge, the state has made him eligible for furloughed release. vtdigger.org/2023/08/24/man…

For the Vermont heads:

A masterclass in profile writing — and not the usual kind. sevendaysvt.com/vermont/a-youn…

Catastrophic destruction —> new trout habitat.

Little light to work with, but the after work pre-spawn bite is on.

Our super preliminary round up of where voters rejected school budgets on Town Meeting Day, to be updated throughout the day --> vtdigger.org/2024/03/06/whe…

The VTDigger member drive is underway. Please consider supporting our work, if you can swing it!

BREAKING: Zoie Saunders faces a daunting confirmation process to become education secretary. Now, Gov. Phil Scott has asked the Senate to postpone its vote --> vtdigger.org/2024/04/29/phi…

I asked every senator whether they plan to support or oppose Zoie Saunders' appointment. Her confirmation looks nowhere near certain. vtdigger.org/2024/04/29/phi…

Administrators said the decision was based on concerns that student journalists were unprepared for the responsibilities of reporting. But the move came after a spring semester in which The Guidon published multiple stories critical of the university buff.ly/3BIRNMf

Today, we issued a letter — signed by 70% of our unit — to Stephen Engelberg and Robin Sparkman asking them to uphold ProPublica’s values of fairness, transparency and accountability at the bargaining table.

Happy International Workers' Day! This May Day, the VTDigger Guild is relaunching our socials in solidarity with our journalism industry colleagues and the wider labor movement. Keep up the fight.

June is here—and we're heading back to the bargaining table today! We'll be countering an economics proposal that management passed last month which many of our members called insulting. And we'll be following up with some heat in the coming days. So watch this space!! 👀👀👀

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