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• Workers at Lake Champlain Chocolates push to unionize

  02-11-2026 23:42 via VTDigger
  
  Lake Champlain Chocolates runs two separate molding lines at its facility in Williston. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.A group of employees at Lake Champlain Chocolates is pushing to unionize, saying they want better compensation and benefits, as well as changes to the company’s workplace environment. Workers at the company will vote Nov. 17 on whether to accept representation, according to Curtis Clough, pres
  
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• Gifford Health Care raises rates and reduces hours on its employee daycare center

  02-11-2026 23:29 via VTDigger
  
  Robin’s Nest, the child enrichment center at the Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, seen on Monday, November 2, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerHillary McAllister-Bove works as a social worker at Gifford Primary Care in Randolph because of its daycare, the Robin’s Nest.She learned of the job opening at her first midwifery appointment at the hospital, when she was pregnant with her first child in 2022. The subsidized employee childcare center, posted as a benefit, caught her eye.“I b
  
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• I nearly died because I couldn’t find a primary care doctor

  02-11-2026 22:57 via VTDigger
  
  Dear Editor,To understand why universal primary care is so important, you have to experience what it is like to have a life-threatening disease without access to a primary care doctor. Twenty years ago, that was me. I nearly lost my life because of it. The breathtaking question is why our political system — federal and state  — has been so cavalier about the awful injustice of our healthcare mess. I was one of the lucky ones back then. I had employer-sponsored health insurance. Still, tha
  
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• Universal primary care will strain a shrinking doctor workforce

  02-11-2026 18:54 via VTDigger
  
  Dear Editor,As someone who has worked in Vermont’s healthcare financial advisory sector over the past year, I think Olivia Gieger’s recent VTDigger report does a great service by highlighting universal primary care, a goal both gubernatorial candidates view as important for Vermont. However, turning this vision into reality requires overcoming substantial structural and financial challenges.On the care side, our delivery system is under immense strain. With nearly a third of our primary car
  
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• Vermont has assigned its $195 million in federal rural health dollars. Here’s where it’s going.

  02-11-2026 17:55 via VTDigger
  
  Jill Mazza Olson, deputy director for health care reform at the Vermont Agency of Human Services, speaks before the Senate Health and Welfare Committee at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday, January 14, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerRight before its deadline, Vermont has allocated all $195 million of federal Rural Health Transformation funding it received last December.In the 10 months since receiving the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid dollars, the state has built out a team to
  
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• An affluent southern Vermont town considers adding housing — or keeping green space

  02-11-2026 11:15 via VTDigger
  
  A rendering of a potential housing development on Raptor Lane in Dorset. Vermont Integrated Architecture/Courtesy of Town of DorsetCarly Berlin covers housing and infrastructure for Vermont Public, in partnership with VTDigger. On Tuesday, voters in the affluent Bennington County town of Dorset will decide whether the town ought to move forward with a housing project on municipal land. Local officials hope to encourage homebuilding at the site on Raptor Lane, citing Dorset’s need for smalle
  
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