The Vermont Department of Labor announced that the state unemployment insurance tax will be lower for upcoming filings. The change is unlikely to satisfy employers who are forced to cover independent contractors as well as employees.
Another proposed district merger has failed, and now a handful of schools in Windsor County face an uncertain future as the next Act 46 deadline approaches.
A group of active and former school board members are behind a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that Act 46 violates numerous federal laws.
Ali Dieng ran largely on a campaign pledge that he would strictly adhere to voting with his constituents in Ward 7. That promise didn’t last even past the gavel strike of his first vote.
An elections commission set up by President Donald Trump has garnered opposition from states such as Vermont, but the Democrat founder of a national, nonpartisan elections watchdog group says voter fraud — especially regarding the use of absentee ballots — is a serious problem that needs to be investigated.
President Donald Trump’s travel ban is now in effect, and Vermont, a state committed to taking in refugees and shielding illegals, will have to adapt. But so far, no one seems to know how.
Seven 499-foot turbines proposed for Rocky Ridge may be the first major energy project in the state to face stringent scrutiny via the approval process of the newly configured Public Service Board.
Another school merger vote was denied by Vermonters last week, leaving another local community with looming deadlines to conform to Act 46, the state’s 2015 school district consolidation law.
The Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules met for the second time in as many weeks to hammer out what needs to be in the final rules for the regulation of sound from industrial wind turbines.
Gov. Phil Scott and lawmakers reached agreement on a budget and teacher health care deal that makes good on the promise of fiscal restraint in Vermont.
Wind energy developer Avangrid Renewables has proposed sound level protocols for its Deerfield Wind Project in Bennington County, and as it’s written now, second-home owners would be excluded from being able to report noise violations.
Another Act 46 school merger vote has a local community on edge over the possibility of losing its school.