Ben & Jerry’s, the Vermont ice cream giant owned by Unilever, has formally endorsed a resolution set for Town Meeting Day in Burlington concerning the creation of a citizen-led police oversight body.
S.100 is about ‘infill’ — adding housing to already-developed neighborhoods, especially urban cores. What it’s not about is incentivizing traditional, single-family housing developments in rural areas.
Two Winooskians are vying for a two-year seat, though: Housing Commission chair and former board member Robert Millar and Jordan Matte, who ran unsuccessfully for a Vermont House seat in 2022.
The bill, H.85, would make 10% of each newly constructed trail on state lands accessible to individuals with physical disabilities. The same would apply to trails built using state funds.
Two concerned parents in Milton are running for seats on the Milton Town School Board, largely on positions that deal with getting back to academics and away from political distractions such as equity policy.
“The way in which the Clean Heat Standard is implemented including the way in which clean heat credits are priced and how incentives or subsidies are offered to households and businesses must be established before meaningful analysis is possible,” Gov. Phil Scott said.
On a narrow 4-3 vote, a Vermont Senate panel on Tuesday advanced legislation that could set in motion a study looking at greenhouse gas reductions and the cost of doing so across the state.
A Vermont public policy group says the state’s proposed Affordable Heat Act would have an upfront cost of $5 billion. The Ethan Allan Institute said Monday that Senate Bill 5 would become the state’s largest social program in history if signed into law.
Even at low exposure levels, PFAS in drinking water put human health at risk. The chemicals are associated with infertility, reproductive cancers, hormone issues, vaccine immunity problems and kidney cancer.
A new bill would move the legal age for all marriages in Vermont to 18 years old, the age of consent, mirroring moves in other state legislatures this year to ban child marriage. Under existing law, minors 16 years of age and older can legally marry in Vermont with the written consent of one parent.
A gun control bill purportedly for “implementing mechanisms to reduce suicide” was approved 7-3 last week by the House Human Services Committee and is up for House Judiciary Committee review Wednesday at 9 a.m.
Maybe Sen. Westman is better off leaving his $22,000 system sitting in the yard. If the clean heat standard becomes law, many Vermonters will be pushed into buying equipment that they can’t afford, might not be able to have installed, and, if it is installed, may not even work to keep them warm in winter.