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 city of St. Albans has been battling the owners of the Dairy Farmers of America milk processing plant over a strong smell residents say is showing up in their neighborhood. The city now has a phone tip line to collect data. -
The Public Utility Commission has opened an investigation into the Hyde Park Electric Department, which serves about 1,400 homes in Lamoille County. -
Town clerks and select boards say it is getting harder to run meetings and conduct town business as the vitriolic tone of political polarization continues to ramp up. -
The Affordable Long Drop program will help low income homeowners who live down long driveways connect to the high speed fiber network that runs along the road. -
If more towns band together to plan and pay for projects, it might be possible to reduce the impact of flooding in the state’s larger economic centers, usually downriver. -
The Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development recently received a $1 million donation to reopen a family shelter that closed after the state ended its emergency housing program in June. -
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.
