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• Vermont Conversation: Cartoonist Tillie Walden celebrates early American queer love in Vermont in new book

  24-06-2026 23:45 via vtdigger.org
  
  
  The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get podcasts.From left: “Charity & Sylvia” graphic novel by cartoonist Tillie Walden; A self-portrait of the cartoonist Tillie Walden, who is a former Vermont Cartoonist Laureate.In the early 1800s, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake spent 44 years as li
  
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• Patriotism is not a dirty word

  24-06-2026 23:10 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Shawn Tester, the chief executive officer of Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital.A few months ago, rummaging through some old memorabilia, I came across a large bronze commemorative medallion my grandfather gave me during our nation’s bicentennial celebration in 1976. I was only 5 years old at the time, but I still remember the exuberance and pride that seemed to fill every corner of our community — flags waving from front porches, parades winding through to
  
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• Vermont’s classrooms are a Big Tech sales pitch

  24-06-2026 22:16 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Laura Derrendinger, who co-leads the Vermont Coalition for Independence, Reconnection and Liberation.With the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding approaching, it is time to declare Vermont’s schools independent of so-called Big Tech. The online and digital product companies — Google and Apple chief among them — are this era’s mercenaries, hired to maximize profits by putting their products directly in front of a captive audience of scho
  
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• A federal judge orders an ICE detainee with mental illness released, finding her six-month detention unconstitutional

  24-06-2026 02:53 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington in August 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerRUTLAND — A Haitian asylum seeker arrived at a Vermont prison having been prescribed psychiatric medication weeks earlier, but prison healthcare providers and outside experts disagreed about the kind of treatment she needed while incarcerated in the state, according to testimony in a federal case that ended Monday when a judge ordered her release.“The list really goe
  
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