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Yes, spending can support affordability

06-09-2026 17:11 via vtdigger.org

Dear Editor,The recent commentary in VTDigger claiming that Vermont cannot “spend its way into affordability” ignores the fact that spending in one area frequently results in even larger savings in another. In healthcare, for example, spending tax dollars can significantly reduce spending on premiums and deductibles, making healthcare more affordable overall.One healthcare claim in the commentary is flat-out wrong. Former Gov. Peter Shumlin did not decide in 2014 that “single-

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$7.9M grant to fund PFAS research at Bennington College, other institutions

06-09-2026 16:26 via vtdigger.org

The former ChemFab plant in Bennington seen in Feb. 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story by Jim Therrien first appeared in the Bennington Banner on Sept. 3, 2026. BENNINGTON — The National Science Foundation has awarded $7.9 million to Bennington College and three other Vermont colleges to establish the PFAS Environmental Research Network, “a four-year initiative bringing together Vermont researchers, educators, students and state partners to better understand and ad

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Then Again: Armed with a spirit of discovery and a gun, the first lady road-trips through Vermont

06-09-2026 15:19 via vtdigger.org

Eleanor Roosevelt takes target practice with the revolver issued to her by the Secret Service. Photo credit Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential LibraryThe gun was the compromise Eleanor Roosevelt grudgingly accepted. The first lady would carry one on her upcoming tour of New England and Quebec in July 1933. Secret Service officials weren’t pleased with this scant security. They had insisted that agents accompany her on the trip, but Roosevelt was having none of it. In that case, they

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38 new affordable apartments open in downtown Burlington

06-09-2026 14:33 via vtdigger.org

The Post Apartments in downtown Burlington on Sept. 4, 2026. Photo by Carly Berlin/Vermont PublicCarly Berlin covers housing and infrastructure for Vermont Public, in partnership with VTDigger. The site of a former veterans’ hall and homeless shelter in downtown Burlington has transformed into a five-story affordable housing complex. The Post Apartments, developed by the nonprofits Champlain Housing Trust and Evernorth, has 38 units that will remain subsidized in perpetuity.U.S.

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‘An unprecedented day’: How Vermonters learned of 9/11 — and who remembers 25 years later

06-09-2026 13:55 via vtdigger.org

Smoke billows over the Manhattan skyline on Sept. 11, 2001. Photo by Daniel Hulshizer/APDriving to work on the bluebird morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I turned on the car radio to hear that hijacked planes had struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, set the Pentagon afire outside Washington, D.C., and slammed into a seemingly random field in rural Pennsylvania.My first response: What kind of shock jock is trying to re-create the 1938 Martian-invasion broadcast drama “The

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