Drawn by the state’s anti-lockdown and pro-freedom policies, nearly 1000 people move to Florida every day – and a new state law has new single family home construction in overdrive, Hayden Dublois reports.

TJ Donovan has gone to work for a Big Tech giant whose stock is in the dumpster.

Dept. of Financial Regulation Commissioner Mike Pieciak, who updated Vermonters on the status of Covid-19 at weekly press conferences, is leaving state government.

New Hampshire, but not Vermont, has joined a 26-state initiative to slow illegal immigration.

Liberal D’s and Progs demand another State of Emergency and a universal mask mandate. The nation’s highest vaccination rate and all of the vax mandates just aren’t working, apparently.

When the State of Vermont says people shouldn’t participate in a public meeting because of the color of their skin, that’s called discrimination.

The Biden administration decided yesterday that vaccinated Canadians may enter the U.S. for ‘non-essential’ (family visits, tourism, etc.) travel.

A Vermont Climate Council public hearing not open to white people was cancelled at the last moment Tuesday due to ‘Zoom security issues.’ It’s been rescheduled for next Tuesday.

Grant money from the EB-5 Court Settlement is available to Newport businesses and organizations. Newport Renaissance, Take Two.

More than $1 billion is coming to Vermont from the federal government. The Legislature is asking you how to spend it.

A strict masking policy is now in effect in the Vermont State House.

Ethan Allen Institute President Rob Roper, liberal VPIRG, and Vermont’s racial equity director agree: single-member legislative districts are preferable to multi-seat districts.

It’s not safe to discuss the State’s cyber-attack defensive strategies on Zoom.

The climate-conscious State of Vermont will now give you a $75 gift card for commuting to work in something besides your Single Occupant Vehicle.

Rep. Becca White began public speaking career as a champion debater while a freshman at Hartford High School. Now she’s talking about the employment crisis (not enough meaningful work) and the Pledge of Allegiance (doesn’t like “under God”). One thing she won’t discuss: defending local police against their critics.

Some state employees already receive $300/week reimbursement for child-care. Now their union wants more.

Gov. Phil Scott has asked the State Department to send Afghan refugees to Vermont.

A privately-run youth detention center in Newbury would replace the closed Woodside facility in Essex Junction.

Actually, Madame Chair, one press person DID show up.

State spending jumped 25% in two years. That’s not even counting a dozen more pending, huge expenses.

President Joe Biden has named the architect of Vermont’s gay marriage law to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

The federal government has authorized the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) and Agency of Education (AOE) to provide temporary food benefits to students (Pre-K to grade 12) who would normally receive free or reduced-price meals at school.

Federal millions$$ once ticketed for Vermont’s 14 county governments will instead be given to cities and towns.

A sugarhouse near an historic site and a firearms shop expansion both faced unexpected, questionable opposition during the Act 250 review process, according to today’s Burlington Free Press.

Two Vermont State Game Wardens were recognized by Governor Phil Scott and Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Louis Porter today in Montpelier for their exceptional performance. Warden Asa Sargent of Hartland received the […]

Vermont’s cut of a national legal settlement with opioid manufacturers is about $60 million.

A state analyst says the State of Vermont is moving too quickly on its plan to replace its decrepit unemployment insurance computer.

Governor Phil Scott has appointed Vermont utility executives Patty Richards and Dan Nelson to the newly established Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB). Richards will serve as chair and Nelson will fill one of four board member positions.

A straw poll taken by a legislative committee today favors live streaming committee meetings and restricting the number of people in committee rooms.

656 Vermont state employees earn $100K or more – up 13% from June, 2019, according to data.vermont.gov.

President Biden has appointed Governor Phil Scott to the President’s Council of Governors for a two-year term.

Former South Burlington lawmaker Frank Mazur reports that what prompted several Florida legislators to initiate a new association of former state lawmakers is the increased centralization and overreach of national government that put state sovereignty at risk.

The State of Vermont will extend for two weeks its free hotel-motel housing of the homeless.

Police visits to some of the state’s hotels and motels have been commonplace since the State of Vermont converted them into much-needed housing for the homeless.

Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) and Operation Lifesaver of Vermont (OLVT) officials are reporting that trespassing on or near railroad tracks in Vermont has increased since the suspension of Amtrak services in March 2020.

For now, the federal government is reimbursing the state for most of the $79 million cost to house up to 2000 families per night in ‘homeless hotels.’ Projections for state fiscal year 2022 pegged the cost rising to $108 million if the program did not undergo changes. 

Gov. Phil Scott said he hasn’t heard from his fellow governors in Texas and Arizona about their plea for help from other states to stop the inflow of illegal immigrants.

Some Vermont counties are set to get more money from the federal government in one year than they have gotten from Vermont taxpayers in the 21st century.

Temporary Open Meeting measures enacted by the Vermont Legislature tied to the State of Emergency will no longer be in effect as of midnight tonight, when the SOE expires, the Vermont Secretary of State’s office said.

After the state took her kids, a drug-abusing mom got cleaned up – and got her kids back.

A map of recent appointees to Scott administration boards and commissions shows more than half live along the I-89 corridor in Washington and Chittenden counties. 

A Burlington legislator is arguing a novel ‘legislative privilege’ defense to withhold two documents sought by a former city employee using the Public Records Act.