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Vermont’s soaring solar spree is trickier than you think

“The (change in the) aesthetic criteria would allow us to build more new renewable energy,” said Ben Edgerly Walsh, climate and energy program director for VPIRG. “This is what the climate crisis demands, and that’s why we support it.” To Annette Smith, the amendment is “a very bad idea.”

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Paul Dame: Democrats offer new taxes, new spending

Democrats spent a $100 million surplus, are spending another $22 million in DMV fees that the DMV never asked for, will be adding a new $130 million child care program that will add a first-ever payroll tax to the paycheck of every worker in Vermont, and plan to add another 70 cents to $4 per gallon to our fuel bills.