Last year, the Valley Post published a special investigation into nursing homes. On November 29, 2024, the New York Times reported that, “Inspection reports continue to find homes leaving residents lying in their own feces, suffering severe bedsores and falls, contracting infections, choking on food while unattended or ending up back in a hospital for preventable reasons. Some nursing homes overuse psychotropic medications to pacify residents because they do not have enough workers to attend to them.”
The Valley Post article offers a local angle, and solutions proposed by a nationally-known expert. It is at:
https://valleypost.org/2023/06/03/vermont-us-nursing-homes-not-good-euro...
After the article was published, a Harvard professor who studies nursing homes told the Valley Post he agrees European nursing homes are better.
The Times article is available free from any public library, and it is at:
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/health/trump-nursing-homes-staff-mandates.html
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In Northampton on November 21 about 55 people were at a rally. The goal was to get the mayor and city council to invest in the city's public schools. The organizers have a web page at:
www.facebook.com/groups/1129898878034077
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On November 27, a local land trust announced it had saved 150 acres of forestland in the Pioneer Valley towns of Williamsburg and Hatfield. The land trust has a web site at:
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On November 21, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Prime Minister of Israel:
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-cha...
In Brattleboro on November 30 at noon there will be a rally to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The rally will be outside the main post office. A group that's promoting the rally has a web page at:
https://grassrootsfund.org/groups/upper-valley-action-affinity-group
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