A power outage Monday caused up to 500,000 gallons of partially treated liquids to flood out of the city’s wastewater treatment plant and into an outflow area near Stevens Brook, a waterbody that’s connected to Lake Champlain and flows downstream into St. Albans.
A dispute over zoning districts in South Hero is easily traced to Vermont’s development initiatives promulgated by the NRPC. Do South Hero property owners have a right to an opinion on their town’s zoning plans, or are they to be bypassed and shamed by a handful of quasi-public leaders?
In June last year, Winooski’s first-ever equity director quietly left her position. The job has gone unfilled since. And now city councilors want to drop funding for an equity director in the upcoming fiscal year’s budget, putting a “pause” on a role meant to address racial disparities.
Neither Sen. Bernie Sanders nor then-Sen. Patrick Leahy helped co-sponsor a Senate bill aimed at stopping a proposed World Health Organization pandemic treaty that critics say threatens the national sovereignty of all signers, including the United States.
Sen. Anne Watson, D-Chittenden, appeared on the “Morning Drive” radio show with host Kurt Wright on to discuss the Affordable Heat Act — and struggled to explain how the legislation would help Vermonters.
The Burlington Police Department’s new monthly police chief report is out, along with multiple press releases on recent incidents, which show the force is making progress despite opposition from the “defund the police” movement.
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders urged President Joe Biden to boost Social Security payouts and expand payroll taxes in order to fund the program for the next 75 years, according to The Washington Post.
On Friday, the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency and Forestry voted 9-2 in favor of advancing a bill that would create a universal school meal program paid for by Vermonters.
The House Transportation Committee on Friday discussed how travel around Vermont is going to change so the state can meet its ambitious mandates regarding carbon emission reduction.
H.372 follows the model of the Montpelier city repeal of its prostitution ordinance. It does not specifically legalize prostitution or establish a legal framework for the prostitution trade. But it does repeal existing laws criminalizing voluntary sex work.
The $1.1 million Super PAC campaign contribution from an FTX executive that helped Becca Balint win the 2022 Democratic primary appears to be mentioned in a new federal indictment against crypto currency firm FTX owner Samuel Bankman-Fried.
Committee Chair Sen. Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia, told the presenters of the bill, Sens. Chris Bray, D-Addison, and Anne Watson, D-Washington, that she and others have “been the beneficiaries of a lot of communications — many, many communications — and phone calls.”