Lola Duffort

Education + Youth Reporter @VermontPublic / school me at [email protected]

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

also woops -- attempted to delete a prior post that went up too quickly, but it did not stick, as this website no longer really functions. Apologies for the confusion! (I should reiterate that you should still subscribe to Final Reading, which I'm sure will only get funnier.)

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

Hi! Some *personal news* — Friday was my last day at Digger, and I’m headed to Vermont Public next, to cover kids, schools, & families. Will miss my frmr colleagues so so much, but I thought it would be cool to learn audio reporting just in time for the podcasting bubble to burst

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

@SamanthaKolber @montpbridge @vtdigger https://t.co/JozA2Yhdwm

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

@todddeluca @vtdigger $26M pays for 150 households year-round but the program would expand in the winter to accommodate more.

[Sarah Mearhoff @sarah_mearhoff]

Scoop: Vermont is devising a plan to stockpile a 2-year supply of mifepristone as the abortion pill’s FDA approval is debated in federal court: https://t.co/OXQ4JiT5aT

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

@mjbeckel @vtdigger ty for weighing in!

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

@GeoffBattista 😬

[Paul Heintz @paulheintz]

A group of @VTStatePolice troopers allegedly used racist, misogynistic and violent language in online games. But when a state senator lodged a complaint, Vermont's top public safety official initially declined to investigate. Scoop by @sarah_mearhoff: https://t.co/E7d05Rwbbn

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

@CounselorAdrian There was not. I was, however, listening to committee testimony about how the data we do have about in-migration to the state suggest it’s higher-income folks that are new. Haven’t actually seen those numbers first hand tho

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

@CounselorAdrian Retired state employees currently get public / traditional Medicare, plus supplemental private insurance bargained by the union. The admin's proposal would roll all of that into one private plan. Hope that clarifies!

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

@CounselorAdrian No - private MA plans require you give up traditional public Medicare and to receive your Medicare benefits thru them. They usually also usually include supplemental stuff, not covered by Medicare, which traditional Medicare enrollees usually get thru private insurers

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

@nealgoswami @jmittell Sincerely curious: why do you think this would be a minor reform? Healthcare, caregiving expenses — that all seems pretty significant.

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

👀👀

[Peter Hirschfeld @PeteHirschfeld]

VT lawmakers asked the RAND Corporation to figure out how much more public funding the state would have to contribute to ensure that every family has access to high-quality, affordable child care.
In a report out today, RAND pegs cost at $179M-$279m a year
https://t.co/n0TXMYGdED

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

I feel like I’m missing the first days of school b/c I’ve been out of the building getting surgery on a broken wrist 🙃 but luckily Final Reading is here to keep me — and you! — in the loop. Anyway subscribe to Final Reading and also buy some yaktraxs

[VTDigger @vtdigger]

From Wednesday's Final Reading: A new resolution allows for senators to debate, deliberate and vote remotely on a limited, emergency basis through Town Meeting Day. #vtpoli
https://t.co/kBzYwkHvQY

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

In a 1986 interview, Leahy said he thought upon entering the Senate, “This seniority system is a terrible thing. It must be changed.”

“Now that I’ve studied it for 12 years, it looks like a great system,” he said, smiling at the time. https://t.co/097LW37ZKJ

[🦅 Freddy 🇺🇸 Brewster 🦅 @freddy_brewster]

SBF hired multiple former federal regulators who helped connect him with top officials at the CFTC, the agency he desired to regulate crypto, emails show.

Now the extensive relationships he cultivated risk embarrassment for all involved.
https://t.co/TLZrFfiYQS

[Colin Flanders @CFlandersVT]

Every night between the hours of 8 p.m. to 9 a.m., the nation's 988 suicide prevention hotline routes all calls with a Vermont area code to a single phone in the Northeast Kingdom.

I recently spent the night there. Here's what I saw:

https://t.co/o8l1IMzXVK

[Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸 @mattdpearce]

🟩 break the streak, not the strike ❌

[NYTimesGuild @NYTimesGuild]

Today we were ready to work for as long as it took to reach a fair deal, but management walked away from the table with five hours to go. It’s official: @NYTimesGuild members are walking out for 24 hours on Thursday. We know what we’re worth.

[Lola Duffort @loladuffort]

@WCAX_Christina this is lol and sexist and whatever but more importantly factually incorrect as your hair is divine