The Approved Independent Schools Study Committee met Monday to determine if independent schools, which sometimes take public money from tuitioning students, should be held to the same requirements as public schools with regard to special education needs.
The IRS is warning tax professionals that email-based phishing scams are putting their business and client data at risk, but a tax preparer in Vermont says the IRS is to blame.
Despite a state court ruling last month that the attorney general’s office must release records regarding AGs United for Clean Power, the office has again refused to deliver former Attorney General William Sorrell’s Gmail correspondence with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Mayor Miro Weinberger has bucked a transparent process for deciding who will purchase Burlington Telecom, but individuals close to the situation disagree on whether that’s good for taxpayers, who are on the hook for millions of wasted dollars.
Regional electric utility and grid operators say they are being forced to curtail power sources, and that new development may not be possible due to energy grid saturation in northern Vermont.
A Superior Court judge in Vermont has ruled that the Vermont attorney general’s office can’t evade public records requests by creating common interest agreements or doing state business on private email accounts.
The South Burlington School Board had their way in forcing the retirement of the “Rebel” sports team name. Now an alumnus and co-founder of the 2,200 strong Rebel Alliance Facebook group is calling them out.
It came dressed up as a local initiative to spur Vermont’s first “climate change economy,” but some residents say the Climate Economy Model Communities Program originates from Montpelier and is being implemented illegally.
The Agency of Natural Resources has fined two salvage companies in the past two months for failing to keep up with state permitting and environmental regulations. Fines on the small local businesses total just shy of $35,000 in combined penalties.
The tweets weren’t exactly the “we’re working overtime to safeguard our elections” talk one might expect from a chief elections official.
The governor is appointing the new Vermont Climate Action Commission to fight climate change while simultaneously attempting to stimulate the economy.
Attorney General TJ Donovan says biometric photo reading software used by the DMV should remain suspended because it violates state law. The move may make more Vermonters vulnerable to fraud, however.