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4:14 The Burlington, Vermont City Council met this week and approved several routine ordinance changes. Councilors also heard an update on police transformation initiatives and discussed what to do about graffiti in the city center. Tension between the city of Burlington, activists and the police department has built for over a year.  A Police Transformation Joint Committee was formed at the end of June 2020. It has hired consultants to review policing and draft strategies for policing in Burlington.  During Monday’s meeting committee chair Ward 1 Progressive Zoraya Hightower updated inte...

Unemployment rate falls another tenth to 3.1 percent The Vermont Department of Labor has reported that the seasonally-adjusted statewide unemployment rate for February was 3.1 percent. This reflects a decrease of one-tenth of one percentage point from the prior month’s revised estimate of 3.2 percent. The comparable United States rate in February was 6.2 percent, which was a decrease of one-tenth of one percentage point from the revised January estimate. The decline is largely due to a sharp decrease in the Labor Force from January. The number of unemployed also fell. Both the Labor Force a...

4:20 On Town Meeting Day, Burlington, Vermont voters elected one new city councilor and re-elected three councilors and the mayor. They were sworn in Monday and the mayor delivered his state of the city address, which focused on racial justice efforts. The first item on the Burlington City Council’s organization day agenda tasked city attorney Eileen Blackwood with swearing in Democratic Mayor Miro Weinberger to his fourth three-year term.  “Mr. Weinberger would you please rise and raise your right hand?” Weinberger:  “Under the pains and penalties of perjury I Miro Weinberger do so...

Tue, 04/06/2021 - 8:39am -- tim In annual State of the City address, Mayor Weinberger asks all Burlington residents to imagine a future where we have eliminated racial disparities and where everyone in the Burlington community feels true belonging Vermont Business Magazine Monday night, Mayor Miro Weinberger virtually delivered the annual State of the City address, during which he reported that the State of the City is one of great hope. Mayor Weinberger outlined how over the past year, Burlingtonians have worked together to contain the virus as well as any City in America, and how, with the...

'Damn Good Journalism' Chelsea Edgar is an absolutely amazing writer. Reading her ["Mother Load," March 10], I felt this crazy swirl of things: guilty relief that my pandemic life has been relatively stable; anger about how — even in Vermont — we haven't figured out how to make life not suck for everyone; a rush of empathy and affection for these three brave, strong, nearly broken women. Her writing made it all the way into my heart. That's a mark of damn good journalism. Thank you. Jason Van Driesche Another Mother Chelsea Edgar's article was outstanding and heartbreaking ["Mother ...