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Look Ahead, Vermont: Pension fallout, collecting race data, and tackling the budget

Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   In honor of baseball’s Opening Day last week, I’ll start with a question: What does hitting or pitching a baseball have in common with solving the state’s pension funding crisis? The answer? If it was easy, anyone could do it. When I was a would-be high school baseball player, I read “The Art of Pitching” by Tom Seaver and “The Science of Hitting” by Ted Williams, hoping their Cooperstown-quality guidance would help me make the varsity roster. “Would-be,” because I lacked the athletic ability to turn their sage advice into a spot on the squad.

Web of racial data needs commitment of money and resources, committees told

Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   Collecting and understanding racial data on the outcome of “high-impact, high-discretion moments” in the juvenile and criminal legal systems for Vermont’s Black, indigenous and person of color population takes a commitment of people and money — a commitment a state commission member asked lawmakers to affirm Thursday. A report delivered to the State House and Senate judiciary committees on the effort suggested a staff of at least three people to make sense of data generated by Vermont law enforcement systems — data which, in some cases, is not compatible with other systems.

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