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• U.S. Cuba policy is cruel, incoherent and hurting ordinary people

  16-06-2026 23:47 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Armando Vilaseca, a former commissioner and secretary of education in Vermont. He is the president of the nonprofit Cuban American Friendship Society.I write this sitting in a darkened room without electricity, illuminated only by a small battery-powered light and the brightness of my iPad. I am in Havana, Cuba, on a humanitarian trip organized by the Vermont-based Cuban American Friendship Society.I have brought U.S. dollars, medicine, food, school supplies and other desp
  
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• Ex-Addison County sheriff: ‘You can have my certification’

  16-06-2026 23:12 via vtdigger.org
  
  Former Addison County Sheriff Peter Newton in the Chittenden County Superior criminal court in Burlington in October 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerFormer Addison County Sheriff Peter Newton, sentenced to probation on criminal convictions last year, now has been banned from working as a law enforcement officer in Vermont.The Vermont Criminal Justice Council, the body that regulates police in the state, voted Tuesday to permanently revoke Newton’s law enforcement certification.&
  
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• Burlington man charged with stalking, harassing Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak

  16-06-2026 22:52 via vtdigger.org
  
  Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak speaks at a press conference with Shawn Burke, interim chief of the Burlington Police Department, not seen, in Burlington in April 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerA Burlington man was charged this week with stalking and harassing Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, after he allegedly accosted her in public on multiple occasions and made her fear for her and her family’s safety.Ari Moskowitz, 40, pleaded not guilty Monday and was released
  
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• Global budgets would free hospitals to serve patients, not profits

  16-06-2026 22:29 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,In his recent commentary for VTDigger, James Hodge was correct in his observation about proposed hospital transformation plans: Simply applying the same prices to a small hospital as a large hospital will not work in our current system.Things would be quite different, however, if we had a universal publicly financed single payer, or at least a single payer for hospitals. We would then have global budgets for hospitals, which would actually give them more freedom to do what Hodge say
  
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• Beyond education reform: Here’s a roundup of Vermont’s new school laws

  16-06-2026 17:17 via vtdigger.org
  
  Burlington High School is currently closed due to elevated levels of PCB’s. Seen on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis year’s legislative session was dominated by one issue in particular: school district consolidation aimed at education reform.But lawmakers in the House and Senate also spent hours of committee work on other consequential education bills. Legislation around chronic absenteeism, immigration protocols in schools and pre-kindergarten school c
  
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• Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund surpasses its $1 million goal year after founding

  16-06-2026 00:20 via vtdigger.org
  
  Mohsen Mahdawi speaks at the launch of the Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund at the Statehouse in Montpelier in May 2025. File photo by Ethan Weinstein/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — A year ago, the thousands of residents in Vermont seeking U.S. citizenship had just two lawyers in the state who specialized in deportation defense, leaving many to face court alone. Today there are eight.That’s according to the organizers of the Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund, who announced Mon
  
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