Misuse of Medicaid Reinvestment Funds inconsistent with state law, detracts from essential programs and support services.
Vermont Business MagazineIn a letter sent to the Agency of Education (AOE) today, the ACLU and the Disability Law Project of Vermont Legal Aid are calling for an end to funding school police with Medicaid reimbursements. With assistance from the Police Out of Schools Coalition and Neighbors for a Safer St. Albans, the groups recently learned that AOE has allowed at least two Vermont school systems – Maple Run Unified School District in St Albans and North Country Supervisory Union – to use Medicaid funds to pay for school cops, an apparent violation of state law.
Jim Kenyon: Disabled worker forced out of the market
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After two interviews and a couple hours of job shadowing, Beth Baras was offered a full-time position behind the deli counter at Woodstock Farmers’ Market, an upscale grocery on the west side of town (not the open-air farmstand-fest the name implies.)
Five days later, Woodstock Farmers’ Market, which began as a family-owned business in 1992, notified Baras via email that it was withdrawing the job offer.
What changed?
For starters, Baras, who was in her early 60s at the time, disclosed that she had a disability. In the same email to the market’s human resources manager before beginning her new job, which was to pay $12.50 an hour, Baras sought two accommodations:
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BENNINGTON â The Select Board has unanimously approved a settlement agreement concerning a complaint to the Human Rights Commission from former state Rep. Kiah Morris, her husband, James Lawton, and their son.
The settlement, which requires the town to pay the family $137,000 and issue a public apology, was in relation to Morrisâ complaints that Bennington Police did not adequately investigate online and other racially motivated harassment prior to her decision to leave the Legislature amid a campaign for re-election in 2018.
The family has since sold their home on Morgan Street and moved to the Burlington area.
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Jim Kenyon: Northern Stage buys apartments, directs tenants to exit
Debbie Farnsworth loads her car while moving out of her White River Junction, Vt., apartment of 14 years Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Farnsworth was told by Northern Stage, the building s owner, that she would need to leave so the theater company could house its employees in the four apartments. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. I used to sit on this porch as a teenager, said Ross Dwyer, right, on Wednesday, April 15, 2021, who, along with Sandra Madore, left, received letters in January with a notice to vacate their separate apartments from Northern Stage, which owns the building on Gates Street in White River Junction, Vt. In his youth, Dwyer visited friends who lived there when it was a single family home, and he has lived in his apartment there for seven years. Madore has lived in hers for ov