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The Ghost Quartet: Part I
If we zoom out and look with cynicism at the health care crisis in America, we see a… Read More
Future of Vermont Healthcare: Goal and Vision
Shutterstock Future of Vermont Healthcare Council Goal: For Vermonters to find consensus on and advocate for a healthcare system that delivers quality, equity, access, and affordability for all Vermonters.… Read More
The Time is Now for Mental Health First Aid
Shutterstock May is Mental Health Awareness Month and in our world today there’s plenty of reason to want to be aware. Vermont has established as a policy if not in… Read More
Future of Vermont Healthcare Council
Future of Vermont Healthcare Council Mission: To refine, design, and advocate for a healthcare system that delivers quality, equity, access, and affordability for Vermonters. Academic alignment and fiscal agent (501©3):… Read More
Can We Get our Legislative Act Together?
Public domain image I don’t know whether it’s the natural wariness of Vermont’s early immigrants who succeeded the native peoples who had foraged and hunted here for millennia but… Read More
Save the Children: Eliminate Cellphones in Our Schools
Public Domain image Vermont Senate Bill 284, “Phone-free School Legislation,” now sitting in the House Education Committee is winding its way through the legislature and should garner the attention of… Read More
French Farm Elegy
We’ve lived some 30 years in our house off Drinkwater Rd in Hinesburg. The land had been part of Howard and Inez French’s farm just down the road.… Read More
What are the dumbest things we do or don’t do in Vermont?
We like to think of ourselves as progressive, pioneering and aware of our neighbors’ needs. Why then do we have some of the worst socioeconomic benchmarks in America? Unsheltered: As… Read More
Learning Inside
In my last VTDigger column, I wrote about the visionary work the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) is doing to decarcerate people in prison who no longer need be there,… Read More
Let’s Stay Out of Prison
I think a lot about the criminal justice system. At 79, I’ve mostly evaded its embrace except for a few driving offenses, a surprise visit from the FBI and a… Read More
Up the Down Staircase
By 2030, Vermont’s ability to govern had descended into entropy. After decades studying, tinkering with, and deferring action on Vermont’s increasingly complex challenges, we came to understand we needed to… Read More
1. UVMMC has generated negative Medicare margins for at least the past 10 years. These negative margins have averaged $43M and totaled $119M in 2022. 60% of academic peer hospitals broke even… Read More
