The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases recognized “burn-out” in 2019 as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” A year later, as frontline workers scrambled to...
Commentary by Laura Shanks “Say what you want, it is a jail. Am I locked up? Yes. Are their guards? Yes. Can I leave? No.” “I think the whole system is a mess. No one has explained anything to me.” “I just feel very controlled. If I had been given the option to leave...
“Time’s practical joke, miss me please?” by Geoffrey L. McLam, St. Albans Serene happinessgarnered not withoutthe gentle caringthat goes along withconsidering one’s self Feeling follyat the possibility of dying20 years before i...
On Barre Street in Montpelier, Another Way Community Center sustained little damage from the flooding that devastated much of the rest of the city in July, keeping its doors open during and after the storm. “We did have some minor flooding in the basement. There was...
The Elmwood Emergency Shelter Community, which opened in February, accommodates up to 35 adults in small, modular structures on a former parking lot just outside downtown Burlington. Getting the project off the ground wasn’t easy, according to city officials, who, in...