Elodie Reed
Health Equity ReporterElodie is a reporter and producer for 开云体育. She previously worked as a multimedia journalist at the Concord Monitor, the St. Albans Messenger and the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, and she's freelanced for The Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, the Berkshire Eagle and the Bennington Banner. In 2019, she earned her MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Southern New Hampshire University. Email Elodie.
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The study, released Thursday, shows that while Vermont law enforcement agencies are doing fewer traffic stops since the COVID pandemic, there are continuing disparities in how Black and Hispanic drivers are policed. -
That鈥檚 as the state recognition law faces increasingly vocal criticism from the only two federally recognized Western Abenaki Nations, which say Vermont has legitimized people who haven鈥檛 adequately demonstrated their Abenaki heritage. -
In this week鈥檚 edition of the Capitol recap, the Vermont Senate gave final approval on Friday to legislation that seeks to expand access to reproductive care. -
Capitol Recap: Lawmakers vote to shore up shield laws and allow online access to abortion medicationThe legislation would make abortion medication accessible online, broaden which health care service advertising is regulated by consumer protection law, and add privacy options for providers of reproductive and gender-affirming care. -
Difficulties include recent federal funding cuts to state health equity work and a dispute over Indigenous belonging in Vermont. -
The project dates to the fall of 2022, when the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs announced it was getting $50,000 from the foundation of the Burlington-based company Seventh Generation to create materials about Abenaki peoples for K-12 students. -
The Active Project was created by the Kelly Brush Foundation, a nonprofit in Burlington, and offers an adaptive sports event calendar, a grant finder and more. -
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England said in a press release that this particular health center, which is currently open just two days a week, has faced significant challenges since the pandemic. -
The bulk of the $7 million retracted from the Vermont Department of Health had been dedicated to collaborative initiatives like making multilingual, educational videos about vaccinations and setting up pediatric vaccine clinics outside regular office hours. -
鈥淭his is really creating a lot of last-minute chaos,鈥� said Brenda Siegel, executive director of End Homelessness Vermont.
