Burlington Weighs the Future of Its ‘Pod’ Homeless Shelter | Seven Days Three years after opening, the tiny-home village has not led many people to permanent housing. But the shelter is making a difference, advocates say.

My print feature for @sevendaysvt.bsky.social this week took a wide ranging look at the complexities of running a shelter for the most difficult-to-reach unhoused people in Vermont.

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Local reporter bids farewell, but not goodbye A few years back, I was sitting at the horseshoe bar in the former location of Burt’s Irish Pub in Stowe and I struck up a conversation with the occupant

Got a little swan song in as I left the News & Citizen/ Stowe Reporter, and couldn’t help but use the opportunity to write about not just the importance of local journalism but the local journalists that make it happen.

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Programming announcement: today is my first day reporting with @sevendaysvt.bsky.social. Send all tips, feedback, hate mail to calvin@sevendaysvt.com.

Jeffersonville detainees’ lawyer denied access to clients Even after one of three men detained by immigration police in Jeffersonville on Nov. 7 has been granted bond, their lawyer has been denied access to the other two men

As the three detainees arrested in a Jeffersonville immigration raid earlier this month face bond hearings and removal procedings, their lawyer was temporarily barred from visiting her clients in the Vermont prison in which they were held.

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We sourced some surveillance footage that confirmed eyewitness report that the immigration police raid in the small village of Jeffersonville was violent and chaotic. www.vtcng.com/news_and_cit...

Immigration police conduct mass detainment in Jeffersonville Between 15-20 people were involved in a raid conducted by immigration police early Wednesday morning at the Maplefields gas station in Jeffersonville, according to eyewitnesses.

There was a massive immigration police raid at a gas station in Jeffersonville Wednesday morning, with employees saying 15-20 people were targeted by ICE and Border Patrol.

Nikola Jokic messes up Domantas Sabonis' hair with the laser assist to Gordon

I love exploring place-name genealogy, so it was fun to learn and write about the origins of Moscow village, a tiny clustering of homes that grew up around a long-gone sawmill in Stowe.

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Never in doubt

Jays are the team of destiny.

I tune into postseason baseball purely so I can learn that the Yankees have a guy named Shitler.

Remembering Dr. Mann’s short-lived maternity ward Seventy-one years before Copley Hospital made the decision to close its birthing center, a Waterville doctor became a one-man answer to a previous maternal health care crisis in Lamoille County.

I've reported a lot on the imminent closure of our local birthing center, so last week I wrote about another maternity health crisis that hit 75 years ago and how one doctor tried to make things better. www.vtcng.com/news_and_cit...

Watching the Iowa/ ISU game in adherence to Tradition (derogatory)

What does this guy know

Absolutely devastating.

Been listening to a lot of Velvet Underground like some kind of teenager.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Quit Print Cold Turkey

After over 150 years, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of the year

Various Vermont news outlets have been covering the potential closure of the birthing center at Morrisville’s Copley Hospital, but the News & Citizen has been covering the issue closest, like with this week’s article on rising tensions between hospital staff and administration. t.co/0oSvOsM8qm

Rilke, Duino Elegy 8

got a close-up look at the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth, an influential community of Buddhists that just happens to be located in our backyard, along with their enigmatic guru leader.

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Meet the families of Copley Hospital Rebecca Goldfinger-Fein hadn’t planned on giving birth by cesarean surgery.

This week I wrote a long feature on the community of parents fighting to save a small but uniquely special birthing center in rural Vermont. www.vtcng.com/news_and_cit...

Willing spring into existence with my first cold brew lemonade of the season.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — 20-year-old gunman at Florida State University was sheriff's deputy's son and service weapon found at scene, police say.

Welch holds business roundtable on tariff chaos The disco ball may have been turning on the porch of The Alchemist Brewery Monday afternoon, but the five-alarm fire wasn’t on the dance floor — it was in the

Pretty crazy but I figured out how to write about the tariffs AND the extrajudicial arrests www.vtcng.com/stowe_report...

CPJ issues safety advisory for journalists traveling to the United States - Committee to Protect Journalists The Committee to Protect Journalists today released a safety advisory covering a wide range of digital, physical, and legal tips aimed at journalists and media workers who plan to visit the United Sta...

CPJ has issued a safety advisory for journalists traveling to or entering the US:

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It’s for ledes like this that I was named New England journalist of the year.

Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature pa...

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner"

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it:

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My comfort Dylan songs rn are “Girl from the North Country” (Nashville skyline version) and “Just Like A Woman” (London 1966 version).

Not now children, daddy’s listening to his emergency podcast.