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Ella Wegman-Lawless has done her fair share of communal and intentional living in Vermont. She wondered: “How much of Vermont as a place cultivates that?�

This past year, two prisons in Vermont � Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington and Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield � launched a living unit model. The idea is to give those in prison more freedom.

Finalists include questions about young musicians, communes, and dancing.

Remington Nevin of Quechee wants to know if Vermont’s electricity is truly as environmentally friendly as some claim it is.

Paintbrushes and blank canvases helped artist Liza Phillip love their biracial identity. Now, they paint colorful genderless monsters and sing songs on the ukulele to celebrate life beyond traditional binaries.

Vermont has the most breweries per capita. But the more beer they brew, the more they have to deal with their wastewater.

Vermont is one of two states, plus the District of Columbia, that allows incarcerated people to vote. But data from a recent study show just a fraction of those who are incarcerated use that right. Advocates and experts say while the state allows access to voters inside prisons, more could be done to make voting more accessible.