It further states that the Commissioner of Public Safety will appoint a Director of Animal Welfare to be in charge of the Division.

There’s a multi-million gap between the House budget and the more frugal Senate budget. Conference committee time.

“Politicians threaten our food, water, and shelter. Vermonters rally,” said the announcement for the Vermont Values Under ATAX rally at the Vermont State House today.

Should an employer be limited only to ‘just cause’ firing of employees? Will the House pursue the Senate notion of a Big Oil Superfund?

Work permits for undocumented workers, ghost guns, and government meeting in private all progressing thru Legislature.

Faced with an 86% shrinkage in homes for sale, the Legislature is looking at Act 250 reforms and increasing temporary housing funding.

A hunting ‘reform’ bill that passed with tepid support in the Senate will be discussed in a House committee this week.

Should the right to collective bargaining be enshrined in the Constitution?

The bill says if people agree to use protection before or during sex, neither party can remove or tamper with the condom without the other’s consent.

Do Vermont police need a code of conduct?

The House will consider this week a Senate-backed bill to create a Superfund to make oil companies pay for expensive renewable power and efficiency upgrades in Vermont.

“People lose faith in government when policies have these inconsistencies,” Scott said.

What will happen to EV batteries when they stop working?

Controversial bills that have already cleared the House are now being reviewed by Senate committees.

The Senate passed an amended bill that, although less restrictive than the original version, could be “the end of hunting as we know it in Vermont,” one senator said. The Senate retained the ban on baiting coyotes and hunting them with dogs.

The $130 million won’t provide property tax relief, but would pay for new and expanded programs.

Plugging teens’ legal access cannabis concentrate. Housing slow-down bill. Why won’t State Government do what the Legislature tells it to do?!

The Senate passed an amended bill that, although less restrictive than the original version, could be “the end of hunting as we know it in Vermont,” one senator said. The Senate retained the ban on baiting coyotes and hunting them with dogs.

The Senate banned flavored tobacco, approved a flood safety bill, and adjusted youth criminal justice laws.

A Northeast Kingdom legislator tells her colleagues on the floor just what she thinks about their plan to get Vermont to 100% zero carbon emissions for electricity.

If the Senate says so this afternoon, parents will be one step closer to being in the dark about what books their children are reading.

How much of the Truth & Reparations process be shielded from public view?

Seeking tax relief for property owners, the House tax committee is looking to the Cloud and short-term-rentals.

One of only two Black Reps accuses colleagues of “dehumanizing Black and LGBTQ adults.”

A Senate committee has approved tougher conditions of release and more latitude for judges to impose bail.

The controversial Fish & Wildlife bill was passed out of a policy committee and now is in the Senate’s money committee. And a flavored tobacco ban may or may not have the votes to pass in the House.

Tuesday the Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would allow some non-citizens to access VSAC advancement grants. 

The Legislature knows replacing crumbling old schools over the next two decades will cost $6 billion. Where will that money come from?

House lawmakers moving along Restorative Justice reforms, $1.7 million for EV chargers, new penalties for retail theft and more

A House bill now under committee review would make it much easier to charge a suspect with felony shoplifting – but would reduce the sentence.

In a case with ramifications for S.258, a judge has ruled in favor of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife coyote regulations.

You can almost hear the governor saying “I told you so'” to the Legislature.