Nope. Just trolling OP. Keep up the good work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vermont/comments/10rmj1c/i_see_the_problem_as_being_much_more_then_this/j6wq83e/?context=3

What’s missing the most is reasonable pricing. A slice should not be $50-70.

They appear to be hoaxes. From VSP:

http://vtstatepolice.blogspot.com/2023/02/schools-across-vermont-receive-apparent.html

> MONTPELIER, Vermont (Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023) — Multiple law enforcement agencies across Vermont are receiving calls reporting shootings at local schools. At this time, none of these threats is believed to be credible, and the incidents appear to be hoaxes.

> The calls have been reported to originate from VOIP phone numbers or potentially spoofed 802 numbers and appear to be associated with ongoing nationwide hoax phone threats of school shootings, bomb threats, and other violent events that have proved to be unfounded.

> The Governor’s Office, Agency of Education, Department of Public Safety, Vermont State Police, Vermont Intelligence Center and local law-enforcement agencies are actively engaged in the response to these calls.

>Further information will be available at a news conference expected to be held later today at the Governor’s Ceremonial Office at the Statehouse in Montpelier. Details of the news conference will be released as soon as they are available.

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Colchester is on lockdown too

Embarrassing remark

Perhaps focusing on quality of production (fungus, pesticide residues, etc).

https://vtdigger.org/2023/02/07/contaminated-cannabis-prompts-vermont-control-board-chair-to-call-for-state-testing-lab/

Lot of places in downtown montpelier, including state offices and the high school, have locked down. Reportedly there was a robocall threat made, and it was all a hoax, hoping that is true and no one was injured or shot.

Which is why we should have a UBI and make housing and healthcare human rights. Especially as we continue to put more robots into the workforce taking human jobs.

Edit: I’d be curious to know who made the decision to do the count in January only. Again, homeless folks are mostly migratory. They move around with the weather and with any opportunities or hope that springs up for something better than where they are. Folks that move for the winter to avoid the cold, often head back in the summers. We know this. So why do the count when the most people are not in their original “home” networks. It’s silly.

VT is grotesquely corrupt. Ugh.

I’m sure somehow the resort is behind this 🙄

Otter Valley in Brandon too

The point in time count is always done in January. It's a federal requirement. Why they picked January is unclear.

We need affordable housing, certainly, but for people with literally zero income not much will ever be affordable.

That doesn’t change the fact that most homeless folks are migratory and hop a bus to warmer places for the winter. Doing the count only in January and making any conclusions from it is very shortsighted.

Same thing happened yesterday at the Berlin mall. Whole place was evacuated.

> The idea of dumping money into landlord's hands "in exchange for temporarily keeping rents affordable and prioritizing people exiting homelessness" is completely insane. We need permanent affordable housing. This program would pay for repairs for the people who are partially responsible for the problem in the first place. It's completely bonkers.

Could not agree more! Landlords are raising prices so we're going to give them money so that they stop raising prices? This is your brain on neoliberalism, and exactly the kind of color-inside-the-lines thinking I have come to expect from the Scott administration. If you keep going in that paragraph in the article, it's even more frustrating:

>The high number of Vermonters who are unhoused but sheltered is also an indicator of a likely crisis to come. For now, the state is relying on motels and hotels to temporarily house the vast majority of people who are unhoused. But to do this, it has been using the large — but temporary — infusions of federal cash that flowed into the state during the pandemic, and state officials now estimate that these pots of money will run dry March 31.

Vermont had a one-time opportunity with a temporary infusion of federal cash, and we gave it to landlords. Awesome. It's almost like half the legislature are landlords or something.

I'm at work on state street and I was terrified until I heard from someone inside that they were ok.

Just got done my shift at my local Walmart, we were told tons of them across the northeast have been getting threats over the phone like that, VT, NH, and MA at least. Luckily for us we didn't get one 👍

Unsheltered people are counted in January, campsites are visited.

This is not a statistical error. The Point in Time count runs every January, and if you look at the other states that ranked high in homelessness, it tracks. This is real.

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At least one school in Bennington first got a call about a bomb threat and then about an active shooter. Police said it was happening all over the state. Scary shit

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I see them in PA all the time.

Cause the last urban renewal plan was soooo great. /s