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Honored and humbled to be named @NENPA New England Reporter for the year 2024.

From @newsandcitizen: The Krusch Preserve Committee, which in 2021 established the preserve on land acquired from a town resident, opened a 51-acre tract of woodland to the public, and created a route to the Cambridge Pines State Forest. buff.ly/CYK2o1U

An 82 year old grandfather granted political asylum in the US after surviving disappearance and torture under Pinochet was grabbed by ICE, who then told his family he died in custody; a month later turns out he was deported, is now in a Guatemalan hospital mcall.com/2025/07/18/lui…

Japanese Radish, Rats, and Carrot, by Takahashi Shotei, 1926

This week we published a deep dive into how the Copley Hospital board of trustees and its CEO decided to close their birthing center with newly reported data and communications between the hospital and the state obtained from public records requests. vtcng.com/news_and_citiz…

🟦 NEW from FT: Boston Consulting Group says it will not publish the findings of its internal investigation into work for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—work that included modeling the costs to relocate a quarter of Gaza’s population. ▪️“While BCG will not publish the findings…

NEW: The federal government wants to make aiding anti-ICE protesters a crime theintercept.com/2025/07/23/fed…

Osceola, Iowa Post Office Arrival of the First Train - Byron B. Boyd (1936) Photo by Tom Parker

AFP Journalists’ Association on reporters in Gaza: ‘Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die’

Big scoop South Burlington from @darr_liberty, who has been covering the escalating tensions between South Burlington’s school board, administration and teachers with near-weekly, in-depth coverage. vtcng.com/otherpapersbvt…

Winooski Superintendent Detained, Questioned by Border Officials sevendaysvt.com/news/winooski-…

- OpenAI/Anthropic lose billions & can't grow into profit - SoftBank in dire straits by funding OpenAI - Stargate (which was scaled back the day Ed wrote this) doesn't have the funds to happen - OpenAI must convert to for-profit or $20b of $30b funding wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

Colorful covers of today’s magazines:

🚨AFP issues a statement saying this is the 1st time in their entire history their journalists on the ground face death by starvation

Big expansion of publicly owned forestland in Cambridge, VT on the way including new access to "probably the oldest yellow birch in Vermont" cc @JTommins vtcng.com/news_and_citiz…

Look at all these long midrange shots. Incredible how much the NBA shot diet has changed in less than a decade.

The Guatemalan couple that works on John Morin's dairy farm on the northern border are more than employees. They and the seven kids they're raising have become Morin's family. He says he's done with farming if they're deported. For the Globe: bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/met…

The All-Star teammates battled it out 😤 But Phee and the Lynx came out with the W 👏

Three years in a row that the second week of July brought flash flooding to Vermont, July accounts for over 40% of all flash flood warnings. @benfrechettewx @JessWCAX @NWSBurlington #vtwx #flood

Shoutout the Hooker County Tribune!

More than $26 million in federal funding was abruptly withheld by the Department of Education last week. Districts and organizations across Vermont fear it will force program and staffing cuts. buff.ly/sCyr6lz