Dialogues with Meg Hansen: Vermonters vs. Vermont Health Connect
Joyce Hottenstein and Peter Briggs discuss health care sharing ministries and the adversities they face due to the punishing costs of health insurance in Vermont.
Viper Out: Vermont ends 33 years of F-16 operations
On April 6th, airmen, retirees, their family members, and the media said their final goodbye to this historic aircraft during the Viper Out ceremony at the 158th Fighter Wing.
Dialogues with Meg Hansen: The politics of personhood, loss and true healing
Patricia Blair from Bennington was eight months pregnant with twins when an intoxicated driver slammed into her car on Route 7 in 2009. She lost her twins as a result of the horrific accident.
Podcast: The pivotal gun case likely going to the Supreme Court, explained
Could the manufacturer of the gun used in the Sandy Hook shooting be sued? That’s what’s at stake in a case likely headed for the Supreme Court. Plus, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces “Medicare for All” legislation.
Dialogues with Meg Hansen: Health insurance woes continue in Vermont
In this week’s Dialogues, Meg Hansen discusses new Vermont legislation about the impending tax-based penalty related to the individual mandate, and the politicization of health insurance in the state.
Dialogues with Meg Hansen: Does farming have a future in Vermont?
Mark and Kate Bowen, owners of Meadowdale Farm in Putney, discuss how heavy regulations, high financial losses and creeping anti-farming attitudes have made life in Vermont challenging for farmers.
How Venezuela uses universal health care as a political weapon
Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is using his socialist country’s universal health care system as a political tool, ordering doctors to throttle medical supplies and withhold care from citizens who don’t vote for him.
Dialogues with Meg Hansen: The Vermonter Candy closes
In February, owner Carolyn Handy announced that the company, which employed several people in southern Vermont, would be closing as a result of the rising costs of doing business in the state.
Video: Green New Deal absurdities catching up with Ocasio-Cortez
“People are like ‘oh it’s unrealistic. Oh it’s vague. Oh it doesn’t address this little minute thing.’ And I’m like ‘you try. You do it. Cause you’re not.’ So until you do it, I’m the boss. How about that?”
Video: Do millennials still ‘feel the Bern’?
One student admitted that he doesn’t know much about him. Another student said that while his progressive track record and values were good, “the Democratic party could use less old white men.”
Video: Venezuelan socialists warn US citizens against socialism
“Bernie Sanders is your enemy. Do not ever get involved with this individual or any of the other socialists,” one participant at the rally warned.
I went to the Women’s March. Here are 6 things I saw.
The organization hosting the March has faced criticism due to its founders’ ties to Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam who led chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in Iran. The Democratic National Committee pulled its partnership from the Women’s March earlier this week.