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Frank Knaack and Falko Schilling: The U.S. Supreme Court and Vermont’s homelessness crisis
This decision is not just inhumane, it also encourages counterproductive public policy.
Tim de la Bruere: Abenaki people were excluded from the state recognition process. I was one of them.
In this way did Vermont’s Legislature, advised and guided by self-proclaimed “Abenaki” and their defenders, take it upon themselves to decide who is Indigenous.
Aaron Adler: What were the extenuating circumstances in Vermont GOP’s Trump decision?
And what about the absence of a public statement from the GOP’s top elected state official, Gov. Phil Scott, whose Facebook campaign page stresses “Putting Principle Over Politics?”
Bill Falls: UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences at work in the community
Each year, we place hundreds of students in internships with community organizations, local government and businesses throughout the state.