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The Deeper Dig — 198 episodes

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'It's hard out here'

2

A plan for what’s left of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant

3

Edi Abeneto of Feeding Chittenden on fighting hunger and breaking down cultural barriers

4

How to raise emotionally intelligent kids

5

The star-studded history of a small island in Lake Bomoseen

6

Who is the University of Vermont for?

7

Synagogue sold — what happens when a historic house of worship becomes something else

8

‘It dominates anxiety’ — unpacking the process and impact of health insurance premium hikes

9

How flooding affects Vermont’s wildlife and ecosystems

10

‘I was in shock.’ — Reporters on the impact of Vermont’s catastrophic flooding

11

The fraught politics of Vermont’s motel housing program

12

A spate of deaths focuses attention on Vermont prisons and the Department of Corrections

13

A VTDigger reporter’s guide to the Statehouse

14

Deep in the forest, a patch of common ground

15

What’s happened at Vermont sheriffs’ departments

16

To go big, or go bigger, on child care

17

Noah Kahan on ‘existing in a place that you've just written about’

18

Leveling the funding field for small towns

19

What 97 acres means to Williston

20

What’s next for Montpelier’s water system?

21

What keeps Vermonters together across a widening income divide?

22

Vermont wasn’t always a safe haven for reproductive rights

23

Competition in the Kingdom

24

Exiting education

25

Building a Vermont haven for Ukrainian families

26

How to get a truck unstuck from Smugglers Notch

27

Buzz’s quest for a hardy Vermont persimmon

28

Can Covid be tracked without widespread testing?

29

Why Vermont’s 150-year old school tuition system might have to change

30

A new wave of inflation

31

Sandy and Marie-Pierre

32

The pain of long Covid

33

The lessons of nursing home lockdowns

34

After Omicron

35

Students and the Omicron surge

36

How Vermont hospitals are handling the Covid-19 surge

37

Could activists end hound hunting?

38

Turning climate goals into action

39

A surge in Barre schools

40

The case for mask mandates

41

Why do kids need a Covid vaccine?

42

Diving in headfirst

43

The future of Vermont’s congressional representation

44

The outlook for emergency housing

45

Life and learning inside the Burlington Macy’s

46

Paul Costello reflects on two decades of community building

47

Starting school amid a Covid surge

48

A new model for mental health crisis response

49

How concerning is the Delta variant in Vermont?

50

The housing crunch hits renters

51

How to spend a broadband windfall

52

Can Vermont regulate religious schools?

53

Are Vermont's pandemic transplants here to stay?

54

Ending the Covid emergency

55

Hidden in plain sight

56

How a Middlebury student became a Vermont Covid-19 expert

57

What’s changed in Vermont since George Floyd’s murder?

58

Covid and the overdose crisis

59

How to confront vaccine hesitancy

60

A year without work

61

The road ahead for Vermont schools

62

Is Vermont ready to reopen?

63

Getting vaccines to 'the end of the line’

64

Kids and the Covid vaccine

65

Three days at the Travel Inn

66

Virus in Vermont, Part 2: The survivors

67

Virus in Vermont, Part 1: The responders

68

Bringing students back

69

Xusana Davis on race, belonging and 'Vermontiness'

70

How CityPlace stalled

71

A guide to the governor's budget

72

'Brave Little State' looks for lessons from Fletcher

73

Can ski towns stay Covid-safe?

74

Making sense of the chaos at the Capitol

75

Vermont Conversation: Steve Goodman on the Year of the Pandemic

76

Inside a Covid vaccination clinic

77

What humanities cuts could mean for UVM

78

Burlington’s mayoral race takes shape

79

FAQ LIVE: When will Vermonters see a Covid-19 vaccine?

80

How the pandemic turned partisan

81

Vermont's Covid long-haulers look for answers

82

Slate Ridge and the prospect of political violence

83

Creative solutions to the housing crunch

84

Counting ballots in a crisis

85

Why antigen tests aren't changing Vermont's Covid strategy

86

For families of dementia patients, Covid’s damage is already done

87

Two candidates, two economic visions

88

Behind the ‘kudos’ for Vermont’s Covid success

89

Schools are in session. What happens now?

90

Who gets hazard pay?

91

The pandemic budget plan

92

Preparing for Covid on campus

93

Can Covid ease the demographic crisis?

94

Vermont Conversation: David Goodman & Stuart Stevens

95

What to watch for in the 2020 primary

96

Vermont's rental relief program, explained

97

The science behind reopening schools

98

The next phase of the pandemic in Vermont

99

Do police make schools safer?

100

How a UVM basketball game became a Covid-19 spreading event

101

Will Burlington slash its police budget?

102

Outrage and grief as Vermonters rally for George Floyd

103

How Fletcher escaped the 1918 flu

104

The hunger problem ahead

105

Inequality during the downturn

106

Why we tattle

107

One inmate's story of Covid-19 behind bars

108

Containing the coronavirus as reopening begins

109

How Vermont hospitals are preparing for a Covid-19 peak

110

Decoding Vermont's COVID-19 projections

111

Vermont's spike in unemployment claims, explained

112

Sen. Leahy on the coronavirus stimulus controversy

113

Preparing — not panicking — before the outbreak expands

114

Burlington Progressives take power — and plan their next steps

115

Competing climate bills in the Statehouse

116

Vermont's deadliest decade for killings by police

117

Sanders' skeptics and supporters in New Hampshire

118

When Bernie Sanders learned to lead

119

What's next for Woodside

120

Is paid leave in peril?

121

A Statehouse agenda, disrupted on day one

122

The fate of the "country doctor"

123

The high court's hydro decision

124

When Vermonters struggle with social isolation

125

How the DMV sells your data

126

Beyond the zinger: Welch and impeachment

127

Sweeping opioid litigation lands in Vermont

128

A.I. is out there. Can the state catch up?

129

An Amish enclave in the Northeast Kingdom [10/26/18]

130

How the trade war with China is costing Vermont businesses

131

Peter Galbraith on the 'catastrophe' in Syria

132

Where migrating Vermonters are going — and why

133

BONUS: David Sanger talks cyber warfare and national security in Manchester

134

Vermont officials and the Trump impeachment inquiry

135

Why Bill McKibben keeps fighting after 30 years

136

With F-35 landing scheduled, protesters press on

137

What Opportunity Zones mean for Vermont communities

138

Pollution victims bring Bennington's PFOA crisis to court

139

What changes after the church abuse report

140

James Adomian on being Bernie

141

Telcos face state scrutiny after Huawei expose

142

St. Albans farmers get a bailout, but no break

143

Stephen Kiernan sticks up for state power

144

Chittenden case dismissals could spark legislative change

145

Can technology save Lake Carmi?

146

Primary season starts early for 2020 hopefuls

147

Lyme patients in limbo as tick rates rise

148

Anti-racism in the auditorium

149

From biotech "dream" to federal court

150

Seeking justice in the Steven Bourgoin trial

151

Ending the session proves elusive

152

Making plans for the women's prison

153

CityPlace tensions resume, but construction doesn’t

154

Police body cameras bring clarity and questions

155

What proficiency-based learning looks like

156

Vermont marriage equality turns ten

157

Vermont's pension funding gap, explained

158

Can cannabis giants be contained?

159

BONUS: John Hickenlooper LIVE at the Flynn

160

How Vermont hospitals end up in the red

161

A 'reset button' on the legislative session

162

Why Vermont colleges keep closing

163

Drawing the line on recovery drugs

164

Who decides on reproductive rights

165

Progressive’s past comments upend a Burlington election

166

New gun bills trail historic reforms

167

Blocked at the border

168

Breaking down Scott's budget

169

Locals vs. the landfill

170

Vermont's youth caucus

171

Hospitals struggle with psychiatric care

172

Welch and Leahy look beyond the blue wave

173

Under new scrutiny, the church pledges change

174

In search of a supermajority

175

An Amish enclave in the Northeast Kingdom

176

Local control at any cost

177

How TV watchers shift their worldviews

178

Life on the line

179

BONUS: Leahy remembers McCain, an unlikely ally

180

When waste hits waterways

181

BONUS: Christine Hallquist in conversation

182

From ‘Fan Club’ to ‘Roseanne’?

183

Upcoming elections will test Vermont’s voting laws

184

Scott's challengers take the stage

185

Longshot candidates go for governor

186

EB-5 cleanup leaves investors anxious

187

UVM nurses strike for staffing relief

188

Vermonters raise voices towards the southern border

189

How cannabis case law will shape legalization

190

Lessons learned from the ‘61 standoff

191

More mergers loom under school plan’s next phase

192

Marijuana offenders face clean slates

193

Lottery winners’ suspicious sums

194

“A lethal combination” in the Lumumba homicide

195

$5.8 billion in 15 minutes

196

Raising the wage divides Vermont Dems

197

Precedent and politics in the Jack Sawyer case

198

In the Zone: Voices from the F-35 debate