Mark Davis
Senior EditorMark Davis has spent more than a decade working as a reporter in Vermont, focusing on both daily and long-form stories. Prior joining Vermont Public as assistant news director, he worked for five years at Seven Days, the alt-weekly in Burlington, where he won national awards for his criminal justice reporting. Before that, he spent nine years at the Valley News, where won state and national awards for his coverage of the criminal justice system, Topical Storm Irene, and other topics. He has also served as a producer and editor for the Rumblestrip podcast. He graduated from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
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Towns that received federal rescue funding for housing and development projects debate how to spend the money. Plus, voters reject a large number of school budgets, how Nikki Haley managed to win Vermont’s Republican presidential primary before suspending her campaign, several towns voted on a ceasefire resolution for the war between Israel and Hamas, Barre Opera House’s executive director is stepping down, and cases of Norovirus are on the rise in the northeast.
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Attorney General Charity Clark said today that detective Shaun Hewitt used "necessary and appropriate force" when he opened fire on Kenneth Barber Jr. as Barber tried to speed away from him
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As of early Wednesday morning, officials said, the Vermont 211 system had received only 20 damage reports.
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“Climate change is real. I don’t think anyone should be surprised about this,” Gov. Phil Scott said. “I don’t think we can use the traditional methods of 100-year-storms. We’ve proven with Irene, and the July flooding, and then just five months later another storm…I don’t know how to qualify them at this point.”
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Scott told flood-weary Vermonters on Monday night that this week’s storm will not be on the “same scale” as July’s disaster, but will still deliver a “gut punch” to many of the communities hardest-hit this summer.
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Turning younger forests into older ones faster to help make them more resilient to climate change. Plus, Gov. Scott is not pleased with a projected property tax hike, BETA Technologies seeks to expand in Plattsburgh, seeing whether wood chips can help remove so-called “forever chemicals” from the environment, Stowe Mountain resort faces a wrongful death lawsuit, and seeking public input on ways to fight climate change.
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An investigation by Vermont State Police indicates Katie Hartnett was visiting the river upstream of the Huntington Gorge in Richmond on Friday afternoon when she slipped and fell into the water.
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The focus of Vermont's flooding emergency shifted to Addison County on Saturday. The Otter Creek in Middlebury has been rising since this morning, and a landslide Friday night hit at least a dozen homes in Ripton.
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The process of growing greens in the wintertime. Plus, legislation advances that would give agricultural workers the right to unionize, former governor Jim Douglas speaks out against “cancel culture,” and new employees of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.Take our survey here.
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The owners of a binder shop in Brattleboro reflect on their business and the significance of Transgender Day of Visibility. Plus, a sales tax surplus, COVID’s health impacts in Vermont, and a large patch of private land preserved in the Green Mountain National Forest.