Congratulations to Vermont Green: A Champion Soccer Club on a Mission
This past weekend, more than 5,000 Vermonters packed in and around Virtue Field in Burlington to watch the Vermont Green take on Seattle’s Ballard FC for the USL League Two national championship.
Vermont Seniors: Enjoy Summer Celebrations with Us Across the State
My office is once again hosting events across Vermont this August for older Vermonters to come together and enjoy good music, food and connect with each other.
Do You and Your Family Need Food Assistance?
We are thankful to have over 200 food shelves, meal sites and organizations providing food assistance throughout Vermont. It has been reported that community food shelves serve as many as 86,000 Vermonters each year, with food coming from both local and national resources, including local Vermont farms and grocery stores. Read on below for information on how to find a food shelf or meal site near you.
King Arthur Baking Shares Its Success with Congress as an Employee-Owned Business
One of the beautiful things about representing the great state of Vermont is that we have some of the best employee-owned companies in the country and I am very proud of that fact. This week, I invited one of those companies — the King Arthur Baking Company, headquartered in Norwich, Vermont — to come to Capitol Hill to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about their good work.
Caring for Mothers and the Next Generation of Vermonters
The Bernie Buzz team had a chance to sit down with April and learn more about what a day in the life of a nurse midwife looks like – and why people may choose to work with a midwife. April also told us about the challenges facing rural health care, and midwifery in particular. She explains that when rural hospitals are struggling, they usually start by closing their labor and delivery units, as we are sadly seeing now at Copley Hospital.
The Most Dangerous Piece of Legislation in American History
On July 4th, while Americans should have been celebrating 249 years of our democracy, President Trump signed into law the most dangerous piece of legislation in modern U.S. history. Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” — passed by just one vote in the Senate — is a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the top 1% and a death sentence for tens of thousands of low-income Americans. At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, this bill gives $1 trillion in tax breaks to the very rich paid for by slashing health care, nutrition and education for the working class.
