A Senate committee will soon consider a semi-auto public carry ban, the homeschool background check is dead, no local tax money is expected for commercial cannabis, and a CEO says a cloud tax is counterproductive.
The Vermont State Auditor of Accounts should be empowered to pump the brakes on climate change regulation, according to a bill sponsored by Rep. Linda Joy Sullivan (D-Dorset), who yesterday announced she will run for auditor against incumbent Doug Hoffer.
A bill giving cities and towns the power to exercise rent control will be discussed by lawmakers Friday morning. Other bills in committee this week address contraception, a homeless bill of rights, commercial cannabis, “good cause” for firing employees, a eugenics apology, and more.
The only person standing between Vermont businesses and residents and new, aggressive anti-carbon taxation and regulation is Gov. Phil Scott.
S.182, sponsored by Senate Government Operations Committee Chair Jeanette White, D-Windham, creates a plan to elevate a new Agency of Public Safety to lead a new “hierarchical structure” over all state and county enforcement.
In one sentence at a press conference Wednesday, Brad Ferland of St. Albans declared the goal of National School Choice Week: “School choice should be expanded, and not taken away.”
About 100 years after the heyday of the Vermont eugenics movement led by UVM Professor Henry Perkins, the Vermont Legislature this week is preparing an official apology to Abenaki, French-Canadians and others forced into sterilization under laws promulgated by previous general assemblies.
As of Jan. 27, the 2019-20 Vermont Legislature has introduced 1,241 new bills and eight proposed constitutional amendments. The following is a partial list of bills introduced last week into the Vermont House.
Faced with powerful political opposition, a strong gun control lobby, politically correct public schools that do not always prepare students, and a sometimes hostile media, it’s tempting sometimes to hunker down or even give up. But there are signs that conservative Vermonters are pushing back.
If ever a topic screamed for a succinct read for interested people, it’s the ongoing revision of Act 250. So here it is — the “Act 250 Revision for Dummies.”
Hundreds of Vermont Right-to-Life supporters filled the floor and galleries of the Hall of the Vermont House of Representatives at the annual Rally for Life Saturday.
A bill to establish the legal personhood of a human fetus at 24 weeks was introduced into the Vermont House Jan. 15 and referred to the House Human Services Committee.