John Rodgers, Vermont’s plain-speaking lieutenant governor, sat down for an interview this week with VDC Social Media Director Paul Bean in his new office at the Vermont State House.
In a wide-ranging conversation, the Glover born-and-raised farmer and builder said Vermont probably won’t need to build new school buildings but may need to close some schools and consolidate them into larger existing buildings to reduce the property tax burden. He says Vermont’s push for renewables merely exports our own pain, inflicting it on the rest of the world. And he describes the history of the dead animal hanging on his office wall.