Arresting Dealers is entirely different than arresting addicts. Technically speaking, Dealers are guilty of manslaughter if anyone ODs on the opioids they sold.

It seems like exceptions should be made to evict opioid dealers sooner.

Number 1 in Income and Employment? LOL

Because he’s a right wing lunatic. God forbid the legal system throw the book at these people.

Not around here, but generally they treat their employees significantly better regardless.

Significantly underpaid. Why live/work in VT when there’s no affordable housing and the pay is half of what neighboring states offer? The state economy is going to implode because workers can’t afford to live here.

It’s a crisis because Corporate landlords are buying up all the housing with their stolen PPP money, evicting tenants, and then doubling or tripling the rent. That’s assuming they don’t just turn it into short term rentals.

Clinicians and Counselors make between ~$33,000 and ~$60,000 in Vermont. Pay is uncompetitive and housing is either unaffordable or nonexistent.

Bottom line is that Mental Health Workers can’t find affordable housing in the state of Vermont. The explosion in corporate landlords and short term rentals is crippling the state’s workforce.

Pretty much all the corruption in the state is at the town level.

It’s like the public meetings from Parks and Recreation, but pettier.

Generally speaking the New Yorkers moving to Bratt are fueling the greed of unscrupulous landlords booting their tenants so that they can turn around and charge clueless transplants three times as much. We need to make sure that current residents are getting first pick for all apartments and we DESPERATELY need rent control. Those clueless New Yorkers will just have to look elsewhere.

Yep, they just stole the money and ran away.

I’m just stating what things are actually worth based on the income available to most people in Windham County. Also Landlords are charging about twice as much as what the state would indicate as affordable. A three bedroom apartment in Brattleboro usually goes for over $3000 a month.

If someone is a danger to themselves or others they are in fact “taken off the street” via a court ordered psychiatric hold. They will end up at different facilities depending on the severity their symptoms. The problem is that continuity of care is next to non existent when people transition out of psychiatric facilities. The State of Vermont delegates outpatient care to a patchwork of different local agencies and that’s generally where the issues originate.

NPR is Ambien for Neo-Liberals.

Amen. Direct collective action will certainly get people’s attention.

At this rate I’m 100% for seizing corporate owned STR properties and turning them into social housing.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that we’re just going to have to tax and regulate STRs out of existence if not ban them outright.

Still looks like a fish tank.

Affordable by Brattleboro standards for a two - three bedroom apartment would be ~$700 a month (with heat, water, no electricity) and ~$1200 a month (with all utilities included). Anything above $1500 a month is just highway robbery and really ought to be illegal.

Having worked in the Mental Health field before, I tell you right now that we’ve been BEGGING for deescalation training for decades. The major focus now though is getting properly paid mental health professionals who can respond to calls in conjunction with other Emergency Services. I REALLY wish that our State Government would stop procrastinating of the implementation of empirically proven best practices in regards to mental health crises and co-occurring substance abuse.

They probably just want to take whatever money is left in the system and run, just like Marlboro.

It’s a design by some bozo out of Boston and looks like some sort of up selling real estate post modern fever dream.

Everyone else in town HATES it. Completely clashes with the architectural style of the rest of downtown and adds more unaffordable apartments.