Upper Valley renters face tight market and rising prices; it’s likely to get worse this summer

On top of that, the $1,400-a-month rent started to climb above her budget once Rogers factored in a few hundred dollars per month for heat and other utilities in the winter. “I really wanted to cry,” said Rogers, whose search was complicated by her two miniature Pinschers, Mika and Velvet. Throughout the Upper Valley, Rogers’ […]

10 years after it was created, has the Green Mountain Care Board worked?

On Sept. But Brumsted, who oversees half of Vermont’s health care system, wasn’t alone in his rebuke. Around the same time, members of the public also lambasted the board for raising insurance rates. Residents say health care is too costly; hospitals argue the process is too administratively burdensome; lawmakers say the regulators should be doing […]

Kathryn Blume: Cannabis has been getting a bad rap for decades

Arthur Peterson, R-Clarendon, spoken in the context of the latest wave of legislation to create a legal cannabis marketplace in Vermont. In fact, over the decades, there have been at least half a dozen government-commissioned scientific studies to determine whether or not cannabis is dangerous. This means we consider cannabis to be more dangerous than […]