Housing advocates see the bill as a chance to protect people who would otherwise be homeless — by telling towns they can’t prevent hotels from renting rooms to those in a state emergency assistance program. The bill would also prohibit municipalities from interfering with efforts to set up emergency shelters.
A Vermont legislative panel on Thursday discussed a component of education funding that has increased demand yet has been undergoing budget cuts in recent years.
A bill that would remove the residency requirement in Vermont’s law allowing terminally ill patients to receive medication with which to end their own life has passed the Legislature and awaits the governor’s approval.
Unless the Legislature’s goal is to ensure Marx’s institutional usurpation of all childcare by the state, this language of S.56 reflects utter incompetence, or complete insensitivity to the problems that continue to face private daycares in Vermont.
All indications are Scott will veto S.5. The bill passed the Senate on a 19-10 vote with one supporter of the bill not voting. Scott would need 11 senators to sustain. All eyes are on Sens. Kitchel and Sears. Were they misled about what the check back was?
The Vermont Climate Council voted on the controversial recommendations of the Biomass Task Group it set up to resolve the question of how burning wood to generate electricity should be handled within the Climate Action Plan.
Attorney General Charity Clark and the extremist abortion advocates seek to use a statute designed to prevent fraud in commerce to stifle completely free services not customarily addressed in such laws.
On April 7, I was able to do an interview with Annette Smith of Vermonters for a Clean Environment, who received a response from the Public Utility Commission regarding their public records request on the Clean Heat Standard Working Group documents.
Democrats have become emboldened to not only ignore the voices of the Republican minority, but they have now decided that they do not need to listen to the very voters who elected them to office.
What happens then is a toss-up, and will decide whether S.5 becomes law or just the latest in a string of failed forced carbon emissions reduction bills.
Two large Quebec-owned utility corporations, regulated by a Public Utility Commission chaired by an outspoken climate activist, have quietly engineered a complex scheme that will make them and their owners more profitable — and you poorer.
Rep. Wayne Laroche summed up the situation perfectly: “There’s an agreement that Vermont is too small to impact global climate. So, we’re not going to have a benefit. But we’re going to spend money — forcing people to do things they may or may not want to do.