Dear Editor, Recently, a Chittenden County Superior court judge handed down a decision siding with the state against the plaintiffs in a case brought by Vermont Legal Aid on behalf of those who are living unhoused and had been evicted from motels during the middle of...
Editorial: Housing First Means Housing First Saying that housing is the solution to homelessness is a little like saying that oxygen is the solution to asphyxiation. Both statements are obviously true – though the former hasn’t always been as obvious to some as the...
To the Editor: The Counterpoint book review of Vermont for the Vermonters in its winter issue captured Mercedes de Guardiola’s effort at pulling back the curtains on the eugenics movement in Vermont. The review observed how the author, Mercedes de Guardiola, exposed...
In 2009, when Dartmouth professor Elizabeth Carpenter-Song launched what would become a decade-long ethnographic study of homelessness in the Upper Connecticut River Valley, plenty of its residents, by her account, didn’t know that a homeless population existed in the...
Short fiction by Ron Merkin “Sorry, Samantha, I’m calling because I can’t be at our board meeting this Tuesday. I made an appointment to have a nervous breakdown that day.” There was silence. Then, “You made… an appointment… to have a… nervous breakdown?” “Yes, with a...
