Issue: February-March 2017
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Unequal justice? Bennington, Rutland rank high in study of police bias
By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer Black drivers who are pulled over by city police in Rutland are at least six times more likely than white drivers to wind up being searched. But police searches of black drivers in Rutland and elsewhere across Vermont are less likely than searches of white drivers to turn up drugs read more
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Education that aims to empower
After fire destroys would-be home, youth program changes plans By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer HUDSON, N.Y. When a historic former factory and warehouse building on Hudson’s waterfront was formally donated to the local youth education program Kite’s Nest in September, the organization had high hopes for redeveloping it. In addition to converting the 18,000-square-foot structure and read more
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Door slams shut as first refugees arrive
Only two Syrian families make it to Rutland before Trump halts program By C.B. HALLContributing writerand FRED DALEYEditor RUTLAND, Vt. Several hundred people took part in a Jan. 28 vigil in Rutland to express support for allowing Syrian refugees to resettle in the city. The flow of refugees was halted the previous day by read more
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Tuition-free at SUNY: Will private colleges pay?
New state law sends N.Y. districts scrambling to halt exposure to toxin By EVAN LAWENCEContributing writer Students walk to the dormitory built four years ago at SUNY Adirondack, whose campus in Queensbury previously served only day students. The college’s enrollment might grow under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to make public college tuition free for read more
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Sculptures that won’t sit still
Artist’s wooden figures mix puppetry, animation at Mass MoCA show By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Works by the artist Elizabeth King, whose half-scale wooden figures are known for their uncannily human movements, are featured in a new show, “Radical Small,” that opens March 4 at Mass MoCA. Courtesy photos/Elizabeth King With a read more
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Rutland becomes microcosm in immigration crackdown
When Mayor Christopher Louras announced last April that he’d volunteered Rutland as the new home for 100 refugees from the Syrian civil war, he could scarcely have imagined how fully and quickly his city would be engulfed by the toxic propaganda of a growing national anti-immigration movement. But by June, the online “Breitbart News” site read more