The Deeper Dig

From Vermont's only member-supported digital news daily, VTDigger reporters go deep on key stories. Hosted by Sam Gale Rosen.

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Will Burlington slash its police budget?

Posted June 12, 202000:17:10

The national protest movement following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has coalesced around a policy goal: defunding police departments...

Outrage and grief as Vermonters rally for George Floyd

Posted June 5, 202000:21:56

A national protest movement touched off by a string of high-profile killings of black Americans has reached Vermont. Advocates say it’s a long overdue...

How Fletcher escaped the 1918 flu

Posted May 29, 2020

Fletcher, Vermont, is one of the 116 towns in the state that haven’t registered any Covid-19 cases so far. But public health researchers have singled...

The hunger problem ahead

Posted May 22, 2020

Long lines at food distribution events have become a powerful symbol of the need faced by tens of thousands of Vermontersduring the Covid-19 pandemic....

Inequality during the downturn

Posted May 18, 2020

As more sectors of the economy reopen for business, the downturn caused by Covid-19 is already having an outsized impact on low-wage workers....