Peter Hirschfeld
Political Reporter at Vermont Public Radio
Political Reporter at Vermont PBS
Political reporter for Vermont Public Radio
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1 week ago |
vermontpublic.org | Peter Hirschfeld
After the high-profile arrest of Vermont resident Mohsen Mahdawi on Monday, Democratic leaders in the Vermont Senate are asking Republican Gov. Phil Scott to terminate a memorandum that allows federal immigration authorities to lodge detainees in state prisons. Masked federal agents in unmarked cars arrested Mahdawi after he arrived for a citizenship interview at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in Colchester.
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1 week ago |
nhpr.org | Peter Hirschfeld
Vermont’s tourism industry is bracing for a rough summer as the state confronts mounting evidence that Canadian visitors are canceling travel to the United States. At Jay Peak Resort, where Canadians account for 50% of top-line revenue, early sales for next winter’s season passes are down by 80% among customers that live north of the border, according to Steve Wright, president and general manager.
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1 week ago |
vermontpublic.org | Lola Duffort |Peter Hirschfeld
A fragile, tripartisan alliance in the Vermont House passed a sweeping, multi-year education reform package Friday in an 87-55 vote. But Republicans lawmakers and Gov. Phil Scott have made clear they will withhold the support needed to get any measure over the finish line without further concessions. For Republicans, H.454 moves too slowly and does not sufficiently contain costs. And for many rural Democrats, the legislation is unacceptably hostile to the state’s smaller schools.
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2 weeks ago |
nhpr.org | Peter Hirschfeld
Two Champlain Valley Union High School students from Nicaragua are preparing to leave the United States after the Department of Homeland Security terminated the immigration program that had allowed them to reside in Vermont legally, according to school officials. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security issued an order that ended a temporary parole program for more than a half-million people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
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2 weeks ago |
vermontpublic.org | Peter Hirschfeld
Dan Kelly has spent more than three decades working at the Canadian Federation for Independent Businesses, and he’s never seen a piece of market data like the one he got last month. A survey of the organization’s approximately 100,000 members showed that nearly half no longer have faith in the United States as a reliable trading partner.
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