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Mia Schultz has watched three other Black women in Vermont leave leadership posts in the...

Thomas Franco was an aspiring doctor when he realized that his real passion was policy. While a premed student at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, Franco volunteered at a free health clinic outside of Cleveland. Talking to the patients helped him recognize the societal inequities that lead to poverty and, in turn, poor health outcomes. "It was just like this moment where I realized, OK, if I'm going to make a difference, and I am going to change the narrative here, I have to dig deeper," Franco said. That change in direction ultimately helped lead 25-year-old Fran...

weekly political column. Tim Newcomb If five of the legislature's top six jobs are held by women and the sixth by a man of color, can we say equality is at hand, at least under the (currently virtual) Golden Dome? Is it fair to start noticing common human foibles, such as ambition and rivalry, in the new leadership class? Rep. Becca Balint (D-Windham) is president pro tempore of the Senate. The majority leaders are Emily Long (D-Newfane) in the House and Alison Clarkson (D-Windsor) in the Senate...

A Black member of a Vermont town's selectboard has resigned, citing safety concerns and “blatant bigotry” she's experienced in the community.

2021/01/27 00:17 WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. (AP) — A Black member of a Vermont town's selectboard has resigned, citing safety concerns and “blatant bigotry” she's experienced in the community. Alicia Barrow sent a resignation letter to the Hartford selectboard on Friday evening. “Though I no longer feel safe nor welcome in a place I have called home for 15 years, I still care very much for the community and its right to exercise the democratic process,” Barrow wrote in the letter she shared with the Valley News. Her resignation comes a...