In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, a legal pot law would invite a RICO challenge, solar net-metering shares blame for a proposed GMP rate hike, and tuberculosis and unemployment are down in Vermont.
Policing policy took on new urgency as the nation’s progressive mayors gathered in the Queen City on Friday following race-related riots last week in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Two controversial solar projects are threatening the community’s rural landscape in areas designated in the town plan as unsuitable for commercial development.
In the aftermath of last week’s violence in Charlottesville, Va., Vermont Republicans are distancing themselves from “Unite the Right” white supremacist groups as well as from violent leftist groups.
“If a local election system is hacked, you should notify the state system, and you probably should be notifying all state systems to let them know this breach was made so we can all take action to prevent it from impacting us,” Condos said.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, Pravda says ‘da’ to solar and ‘nyet’ to Vermont Yankee, drug addicts are plaguing downtown areas, and senators weigh Act 250 and pot.
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 fate of taxpayer-owned Burlington Telecom will be decided in the coming weeks as city officials negotiate with finalists in what has been a long, secretive bidding process.
If some legislators get their way, Vermont will adopt a $15 minimum wage as soon as Jan. 1, 2019.
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.
A Connecticut family listed among the defendants in an ongoing voter fraud lawsuit has admitted voting in Vermont elections, according to public court documents. Family members said they got approval to do so from the Vermont Secretary of State’s office.
Immigrants fearing a U.S. immigration crackdown are seeking a new life in Canada, regional lumber mills are closing, and the next hearing on the Vermont Yankee decommissioning plan has been delayed until January.