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Forced school district consolidation isn't the only obstacle to reform this year, because Vermont lawmakers will also have to poke the hornet’s nest that is school choice.

For many married couples, when one partner is diagnosed with dementia, there’s often no question that the other will become the caregiver. It’s the hard part of the "for better or for worse" marriage vow.

In 2016, Liz Harris' teenage daughter, Mary, was killed in a car accident alongside four of her friends. Liz says that the ripple effect of her daughter's empathetic love has come out in all the people around her ever since.

In the latest installment of a four-part series on love, Dan and Laura Sudhoff reflect on their 58-year relationship.

A special docket aimed at reducing a backlog of low-level offenses in Chittenden County has cleared just over 700 cases. The governor is pushing to expand the initiative to other counties.

In the first of a four-part series on love, 7-year-old Winooski resident Theo describes what love means to him.

Dee Christie is an artist and former art teacher in Milton. She specializes in making colorful collages out of old books.

Listener audio recorded almost exactly a year ago has interesting resonance now. Here's episode 3 of What Now Sounds Like.

The state has begun funding pop-up shelters in four additional locations this year, a formidable effort that materializes and evaporates based on the weather.

Bill Barbot discusses what he's learned about class perceptions since moving to Vermont, and the value of living in a place where towns are not divided starkly by class in this latest episode of "What Class are You?"

Even though Kaye Phipps sometimes works multiple jobs, she often comes up short. In this episode, she talks about how having limited income can make her feel like a child, long into adulthood.

Three weeks into a legislative session that’s supposed to produce one of the most consequential school-governance overhauls in state history, lawmakers are knee-deep in the “inherent contradictions” that make meaningful reform so elusive.

Jordan Hepburn talks about the challenges of starting a farm in Vermont without land or capital in the next installment of "What Class Are You?"

Siblings Arwa Mint Meiloud and Habib Ould Meiloud share their perspectives on the roles that race and class have played in their lives so far for the latest installment of "What Class Are You?"

When you work in the trades, your income depends on your body's ability to do the work. In this installment of "What Class Are You," Jules Guillemette talks about the challenges of having income that relies on good health, and difficult questions about holding onto a valuable farm that has passed down through generations.

Trudy Richmond worked all her life, then realized she'd never save enough money for a comfortable, private retirement. In this latest episode of What class are you?, Trudy talks about how she planned a future where she could qualify for subsidized housing and health care in her old age so she could retire with security.

T.O. has been in and out of jail his whole adult life and before that, he was in Spofford, a juvenile detention center in the Bronx.

Under the Scott administration's proposal, all of the state lottery’s games, including Megabucks, Powerball and even instant scratch-off tickets, would be available on a person’s phone.

Stone carver Heather Milne Ritchie is mentoring a new generation of women artists at her central Vermont studio.

SabrinaJoy Milbury has led meditative drumming circles, called moon circles, for nearly two decades. But, she says, “It’s OK if you think this is a bunch of hooey.” Here's an audio postcard.