In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, a carbon tax is being discussed, GMP explains its $80 million rate increase, and Planned Parenthood may get funding from a tax on erectile dysfunction products. Also, Burlington ranks among the top “post-Christian” cities.
A new conservative party is joining the ranks of Democrats, Republicans and Progressives in Vermont. It’s called the Green Mountain Party, and its cornerstone issues include term limits, keeping outsider money out of elections, and budget cuts.
With a significant vote on net neutrality set for Thursday, voices from both sides of the debate are hitting crescendos, with Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy joining other Democrat senators in calling for a delay.
In fact, her political activity is kept in check by the Hatch Act of 1939. That federal law prohibits employees of the executive branch — except the president, vice president and a few other officials — from engaging in certain types of political activity.
Middlebury College seeks to become more energy efficient and cut its carbon footprint by collaborating with three organizations to produce renewable natural gas.
“You need to look at all the areas that need improvement to reduce that water flow, and then you are going to need to implement those projects. It is going to run into the many millions of dollars for municipalities to comply with this.”
With Vermont set to pay $31 million in incentives for districts that agreed to merge under the state’s education consolidation law, critics of Act 46 say the payouts are unfair and hurt poor rural areas.
The bold, new education and workforce development program has a goal of arming 70 percent of Vermont’s population with either trade or higher education credentials by the year 2025.
The House and Senate tax bills could be detrimental to an already struggling affordable housing situation in Vermont, according to estimates released by the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, members of Congress take Alzheimer’s meds, a Pulitzer Prize winner from Middlebury says no to Big Marijuana, and school taxes and electricity costs are set to rise.
A key puzzle piece to curbing Vermont’s opioid epidemic has emerged just across the Connecticut River at Dartmouth College.
At a public forum hosted by the Bennington County Republican Party last month, a bipartisan panel agreed that tax reform and the economy were the right focus for Vermont going into 2018.