Archive for 'Social Issues'
Vermont poured hundreds of millions of dollars into housing during the pandemic. What has it built?
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Posted: September 18th, 2025 under General News, National News, Peru/Regional History, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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Even with more Vermont homes on the market, prices are still rising
In Chittenden County, the median sale price of a primary home reached $500,000 last year. Click here for the VTDigger story
Posted: September 14th, 2025 under Business News, General News, National History, National News, Peru/Regional History, Social Issues.
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How New York’s Attorney General Lets Innocence Claims Slip Through the Cracks
Prisoners seeking help from the AG’s office have little chance of review. Here’s one applicant’s story. Click here for the New York Focus story
Posted: September 12th, 2025 under Law Enforcement News, Social Issues, State Government News, Statewide News.
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At this Vermont summer camp, kids with incarcerated parents ‘don’t have to hide’
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Posted: August 19th, 2025 under General News, Law Enforcement News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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21 Counties Have Closed Applications for New York’s Biggest Child Care Affordability Program
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Posted: August 8th, 2025 under National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Social Issues, State Government News.
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Summers Are Brutal in New York’s Prisons. This Year Is Worse Than Ever.
Short-staffed since a strike this winter, the prison system is keeping people locked in their boiling cells and dorms for upwards of 21 hours a day. Click here for the New York Focus story
Posted: August 4th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Social Issues, State Government News, Statewide News.
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Adirondack Community Foundation announces actions to support region amid new challenges
“Medicaid provides support to 28% of the population of NY-21—either directly or through the New York State of Health Marketplace, according to the Healthcare Coalition for the North Country” Click here to read the Adirondack Almanac story
Posted: July 30th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Congressional News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Social Issues, State Government News, State Legislator News.
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24-hour crisis center opening in Plattsburgh to close mental health care gap
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Posted: July 29th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, City News, Community Events, Heathcare News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Social Issues.
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Housing projects making progress in Burlington; more units to come on market by end of 2025
“We’ll have some preferences for folks who are homeless, but then people who are basically low and moderate income people, probably a good number of folks working will be able to come here; again, preference for the veterans” Click here for the MYNBC5 story
Posted: July 26th, 2025 under General News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues, Veterans' News.
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Migrant workers in Vermont navigate fear, uncertainty amid deportation crackdown
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Posted: July 22nd, 2025 under Agricultural News, General News, Law Enforcement News, National History, National News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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Lake Placid proposes new law to require permits for peaceful protests
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Posted: July 16th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Community Events, Northern NY News, Social Issues.
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Migrant workers in Vermont navigate fear, uncertainty amid deportation crackdown
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Posted: July 15th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Border News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National History, National News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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What Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act means for taxes on Social Security
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Posted: July 11th, 2025 under Congressional News, National News, Political News, Social Issues.
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Assemblyman Billy Jones: Statement on Big Beautiful Bill
”I am deeply concerned with how the Big Beautiful Bill will impact the North Country. Without a doubt, our medical system will suffer under the cuts in this bill. Our rural hospitals, nursing homes, community health centers, disability support services, and all other local healthcare providers will bear the brunt of the cuts. Even those […]
Posted: July 7th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Business News, General News, Heathcare News, Northern NY News, Opinion, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues, State Legislator News.
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‘We need a prayer’: As executive order ends, hundreds of Vermonters exit motels
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Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Peru/Regional History, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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Social Security benefits face big cuts in 2033, unless Congress acts
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Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Congressional News, Corruption in Gov't., National History, National News, Political News, Social Issues.
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Summer Youth Employment Program Provides Valuable Work Experience for Young People
May 27, 2025 Governor Hochul News Release Statewide Investment Will Support the Employment of 21,000 Youth from Low-Income Families Across the State this Summer Governor Kathy Hochul today announced $56.5 million to help approximately 21,000 young people from low-income households enter the job market this summer through New York State’s Summer Youth Employment program. As […]
Posted: May 30th, 2025 under Political News, Social Issues, State Government News, Statewide News, Youth News.
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Hochul apologizes for ‘ethnic cleansing’ at Thomas Indian School
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Posted: May 22nd, 2025 under National History, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Social Issues, State Government News.
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Tensions mount in Burlington business community as council orders meal program relocation
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Posted: May 21st, 2025 under Business News, Community Events, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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Interfaith Food Shelf saw 11% growing community need last year
Interfaith provided 11 to 12 tons of food monthly last year, their 60th Click here for the Sun Community News Story
Posted: May 16th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Business News, City News, Community Events, General News, Northern NY News, Social Issues.
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Black and Hispanic drivers continue to be stopped disproportionately across Vermont, traffic stops study finds
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Posted: May 9th, 2025 under Law Enforcement News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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Social Security office finds ‘dead’ people in Upstate NY who aren’t really dead
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Posted: May 9th, 2025 under Corruption in Gov't., National News, Political News, Social Issues.
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New York Will Boost Unemployment Benefits, Labor and Businesses Celebrate
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Posted: May 9th, 2025 under Business News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues, State Government News.
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An Open Secret’: Sackets Harbor ICE Raid Shows the ‘Reality’ of New York Dairy Country
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Posted: April 14th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, General News, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues.
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Nearly Decade After Brutal Beating by Auburn Correctional Prison Guards, Man Gets $1.2 Million Settlement
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Posted: April 9th, 2025 under Law Enforcement News, Social Issues, State Government News, Statewide News.
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