The leaders of the state House and Senate listed their priorities on Tuesday after gaveling in the session remotely, and the continued recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic topped both lawmakers’
MONTPELIER — Most of the Vermont Senate’s committee chairs gathered on the statehouse steps Wednesday, looking back at their accomplishments and taking an opportunity to visit a building they’ve barely
Tim Newcomb Internet service was agonizingly slow when Ed and Elizabeth Childs moved into their rural Corinth home in 2012. Nearly a decade later, it s not much better. The couple pays $75 a month for DSL service over the copper wires of their local telephone company, but it s useless for many modern tasks. Any kind of teleconferencing or uploading files is a real problem, Ed said. To upload video, even in a compressed format, you re talking hours and hours even days. So Ed, a retired electrical engineer, did two things. He joined the Space on Main in nearby Bradford, a coworking space where he has the high-speed internet connection he needs to develop a new business venture. And he joined the governing board of the East Central Vermont Telecommunications District, better known as ECFiber.
weekly political column. Tim Newcomb What s all this talk we hear about systemic racism? In progressive, chill Vermont, such a thing couldn t be a problem. Well, OK, maybe racial bigotry pops up occasionally in web comments or the remarks of unenlightened people. But in a professional health care setting where you re talking with doctors and nurses, you d never see or hear it, right? Wrong.
Maria Mercedes Avila is devoting her career to combating the systemic biases that interfere with the delivery of good medicine to patients because of factors such as their race, sexual orientation or status as immigrants. A PhD who is an associate professor of pediatrics and an adjunct assistant professor of nursing at the University of Vermont and its Larner College of Medicine, Avila testified about her work one morning last week before the Vermont House Health Care Committee.