Protect Our Wildlife Vermont is unhappy with the current Fish and Wildlife Board and wants to see the governor appoint more non-hunter and non-trapper types to fill future vacant seats.
Tuesday afternoon state lawmakers gathered in the House Energy and Technology Committee to ask if President Donald Trump’s new executive order will pre-empt H.51 and other bills intended to stop new natural gas pipelines.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent part of their Thursday morning discussing “the rise and decline of hate groups” in Vermont and the United States, the topic listed on the day’s agenda.
“Commercialization really changed the life and the atmosphere in the state, very quickly,” Troyer said. “We now have more stores selling marijuana than we have Starbucks and McDonalds combined.”
Just in time for the April 15 tax-filing deadline, a new online report shows that Vermonters have a lot of reasons to sing the blues: They have one of the nation’s highest state tax loads to bear.
More than once, a speaker noted that participation in the meeting “is in no way intended as an affirmation of the legality of the State Board of Education’s Report and Order on statewide school merger decisions” issued on Nov. 30, 2018.
The Housing and Military Affairs Committee continues to hear from business owners and advocates who say that a $15 minimum wage is simply unaffordable for their organizations.
Vermont’s proposed amendment to enshrine abortion is set for a public hearing, while “Unplanned,” the surprising hit movie about former abortion clinic director Abby Johnson, will air at Bennington Cinemas this weekend.
Hundreds of climate activists marched the streets of Montpelier on Tuesday, braving sleet and rain just to urge lawmakers to take action against global warming.
“Legal” stores sell pot for morning sickness, store-bought pot is recalled for pesticides and mold, and highway deaths, electricity use, youth consumption and black market are all up.
House lawmakers last week passed the universal paid family leave bill by a 92-52 vote, shunning amendments that would have eased the impact on taxpayers and allowed Vermonters who can’t afford the program to opt out.
New bills would require insurance coverage for transgender operations, “affirmative consent” for sex, licensing of building contractors and net-zero emissions of new buildings by 2022.