A proposed amendment would enshrine reproductive health rights into the state constitution. Proposition 5 has been moving through the Legislature for several years, and will be on the ballot this November. Peter Teachout, a constitutional law scholar at Vermont Law School, advised state lawmakers while they drafted Prop 5.

Elizabeth Dow spends her days straddling the past, present and future. She worked as a professor of archive science before retiring to Hardwick, where she is now president of the town historical society. And in the inaugural feature in our Summer School series, she recently gave VPR’s Anna Van Dine a lesson in how to keep a history.

In October, 2017, an unusual exhibit opened in New York City called ‘Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantanamo’, featuring artwork created by detainees. Since that original show, the exhibit has expanded, and is now on display at the Fried Family Gallery at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury.

It's been 20 years since the detention center at Guantanamo Bay opened on the coast of Cuba. And as we consider the last two decades and the controversial history of the prison, we're speaking with Vermonters who have had direct ties to it.

Vermont’s housing market is tight, and the pandemic made it worse. According to the Vermont Housing Finance Agency, the average sale price for a single family home went up nearly 40% between 2019 and 2021. Many point to years of under-building as a culprit. But the community of Morristown is bucking that trend.

Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees lives in Hinesburg. She’s 77, and has lived a life at the crossroads of the identities, cultures and worldviews — she has Native, African and European ancestors.TwoTrees works across mediums, including multi-sensory installations with sound, smell and visuals.

COVID-19 vaccines will soon be available to younger children in Vermont for the first time. On Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for children ages 6 months to 5 years old.

Vermont’s population is 94.2% white, according to the latest census data. For the BIPOC community here, many change the way they sound to socially adapt to the overwhelmingly white population. But some are saying they’re done with it.

At a Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs meeting this week, Indigenous women spoke up about sexism and cultural appropriation among state-recognized Abenaki tribes.

Vermont’s only juvenile detention center shut down in the fall of 2020. Since then, four minors have been detained in adult jails throughout Vermont, according to state officials. But it remains unclear what the long-term plan for Vermont’s juvenile offenders is, and some advocates don’t think they should be locked up at all.