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. 

“Through my years as an officer, I have never seen any officer discriminate because of wealth, color, religion or sex. Believe me if I did, I would step in and correct it,” said a letter from a 20-year Vermont police officer. “Here is a saying that is true: no-one hates a bad cop worse than the good ones.”

A large Massachusetts-based police labor organization stands behind the ‘thin gray line’ of the Vermont Department of Corrections.

The People’s Republic of China’s propaganda war paints the U.S. as a declining nation and blames us for starting the global Covid-19 pandemic, China policy expert Gordon Chang reports in the May 5 issue of Strategika, a Hoover Institute publication. Vermont’s elected officials in Washington and Montpelier have done little to fight either claim. 

The Vermont Climate Council, the 23-member climate change task force whose numbers have swollen with the incorporation of a multitude of outside subcommittee members, want more money for themselves in their efforts to make your life less affordable.

A Vermont state senator objects to a recent Vermont Dept. of Corrections ban on the ‘thin gray line’ flag meant to show support for corrections officers.

A $75/day home expense benefit created for the 2021 Zoom Legislature has resulted in $653,184 of claims through May 4, state officials say.

The Vermont Department of Labor announced today that the work search requirement for unemployment claimants will be reinstated beginning Sunday, May 9 for all claimants in regular UI and specific claimants in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program.

About $125 million of federal recovery funding will help the State acquire longterm housing for Vermont’s homeless, Gov. Phil Scott said at a press conference today.

The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to reopen the public comment period related to the proposed construction of massive surveillance towers in Derby Line and North Troy.

The Vermont Republican Party has already collected 780 signatures in an online petition to stop the proposed expansion of the sales tax to services.

Former Lieutenant Governor Zuckerman took the nearly $200,000 budget he inherited from then-Lieutenant Governor Scott and increased it by more than 27 percent in a single year. As a result, current Lieutenant Governor Molly Gray inherited a much more favorable budget than was the case just a handful of years ago.

Vermont was ranked low, 41 among 50 states, when it comes to taxpayers’ return on investment (ROI). In other words, taxpayers pay in to Montpelier but don’t see much overall for their investment.

State Game Warden Sergeant Travis Buttle of Shaftsbury is Vermont’s Game Warden of the Year. A game warden since 1996, Buttle was nominated by his peers and received the award in recognition of his excellent service.

ADDISON – Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department staff gathered with conservation partners at the Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area in Addison on Friday to commemorate a century’s worth of wildlife management area […]

Levine, Scott advise small social gatherings – no mandate yet BY GUY PAGE ON NOVEMBER 6, 2020  Montpelier – Governor Phil Scott and Health Commissioner Mark Levine, MD, today announced an advisory on social […]

Though closer, Haverhill facility lacks adequate drug treatment program By Guy Page October 9, 2020 – Negotiations to move Vermont inmates from a Mississippi prison to to just across the Connecticut River […]

Under GWSA, Vermont moves away from representative government By Guy Page September 30, 2020 –  Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) could have been talking about Vermont’s Democratic legislature when he declared that today’s […]

Meanwhile, Burlington and other cities get away with sewer overflows, critics say By Guy Page September 4, 2020 – Vermont landowners of three or more acres of impervious surfaces must plan and […]

Remote work for state employees extended through 2020 August 5, 2020 —The Agency of Administration today announced that state employees who can telework should expect to do so at least through December […]