Howard Weiss-Tisman
ReporterHoward Weiss-Tisman is Vermont Public's reporter for Southern Vermont, who aims to connect Southern Vermonters to the rest of the state. He worked at the Brattleboro Reformer for 11 years, reporting on most towns in the region and specializing on statewide issues including education, agriculture, energy and mental health. Howard received a BA in Journalism from University of Massachusetts. He filed his first story with Vermont Public in September 2015.
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The Green Mountain Care Board last week set the 2026 budgets for Vermont's 14 hospitals. -
The Green Mountain Care Board has ordered UVM Medical Center to level-fund its net patient revenue next year and also reduce its commercial insurance rate by 16%. -
A timber rattlesnake was removed from a yard in Grand Isle this summer — far from the only known breeding grounds in Vermont. Experts say it could have hitched a ride to the island in a car or boat. -
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital has lost money for the past five years, and expects to lose almost $3 million next year. The hospital's proposed budget for next year was inaccurate and incomplete, according to state regulators, and now the hospital might get an independent observer to get its financial reporting together. -
Randy Leavitt, whose family has been in East Barnard for 10 generations, is building an outhouse with a composting toilet outside the village church. It will be open to the public. -
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital cut six positions earlier this summer. About a dozen people showed up Friday morning to urge hospital leaders to avoid additional layoffs. -
Brattleboro and the town of Hinsdale have been working on a plan to rehabilitate two historic bridges, but now the New Hampshire town says it does not want to support the project -
Vermont schools got more than $31 million in Covid relief money. Those funds ran out as districts faced unprecedented tax increases, and now it's a challenge to keep summer programs going. -
Southeast Vermont Transit will stop running a fixed route bus service in Springfield in the fall. The company will start an on-demand service where riders can call or contact the company to request a ride anywhere in Springfield or North Springfield. -
Opponents had hoped to overturn the new rules, which are designed to keep the growth of new rentals in check in the small Windham County town.
