During his weekly press conference Tuesday, Gov. Phil Scott called on Vermonters to work to undo the harms caused by the social and economic shut down he imposed following the onset of COVID-19 in 2020.
$40 million will be spent to boost municipalities, businesses and the nonprofit sector that were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. And $19 million will be put into the Forgivable Loan Program through the Economic Development Authority to administer forgivable loans to businesses suffering from economic shortfalls due to the pandemic.
The Vermont Secretary of State’s Office is now installing new Dominion ballot tabulating machines in every Vermont town and municipality using ballot tabulators, Director of Elections Will Senning confirmed Friday afternoon.
The overworked and understaffed Burlington Police Department luckily didn’t see any new shootings this weekend, but police did have to track down stolen vehicles Thursday evening.
Local candidates have received a slew of big endorsements in recent weeks, including ones from former Vermont Govs. Jim Douglas and Howard Dean, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Burlington city officials want tougher gun laws and more police spending to reduce the outbreak of Queen City gun violence.
Vermont’s most prominent “no jail” prosecutor is Sarah George. Cash bail is racist, she wrote in an op-ed published by the ACLU-VT. She resists jailing even violent offenders after their arrest, preferring to return them to the street where, she says, they can access mental health and substance abuse programs.
“With this new law, Vermont consumers will be able to visit beer and wine retailers to get their favorite ready-to-drink cocktails, and distillers will no longer be burdened with such an excessive tax rate.”
The Democratic candidate for governor and an outspoken progressive columnist have chastised Gov. Phil Scott for his veto of H.728, which includes money to study “safe injection sites” for opioid users.
It was a problem just waiting to be solved and all it took was a few Harwood students asking “why?” to tackle it. The problem? Leftover cartons of milk in Harwood Union High School’s cafeteria every day.
On the Statehouse steps Friday, conservative-leaning candidates running for office in Vermont called for school safety instead of gun control in the wake of recent mass shootings.
After facing reportedly vicious public attacks due to his efforts to cancel Drag Queen Story Hour at the public library in Chester, the library board chair and all but one member have resigned — calling in to question the library’s ability to stay open.