E-bikes, power banks, and tools keep showing up in flames on social media — often while sitting unplugged. The mechanism isn't random: a damaged cell can smolder toward thermal runaway long before anything looks wrong. What UL, the CPSC, an
Vermont's entire congressional delegation has signed onto the LIFT the BAR Act, which would open Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, and housing assistance to DACA recipients and other noncitizens. The pitch says taxpayers who pay in should get benefits.
Vermont runs on volunteer nonprofit boards — and when one goes off the rails, almost nobody knows the rules. A plain-language map of Title 11B: the quorum law most boards get wrong, why public money buys zero transparency, and the levers di
Newly finalized CDC data show Vermont recorded 207 overdose deaths in 2024 — real improvement from the 2022 peak, but still 17 percent above 2020, while 27 comparison jurisdictions dropped 18 percent. Cocaine involvement doubled, xylazine s
Thousands of Vermont websites were exposed in mid-July to a WordPress flaw that lets attackers seize a site with no password. WordPress pushed a forced update — but it only reaches sites whose automatic updates still work. CISA confirms act
Today FYIVT launches the Finder, a search engine built exclusively for Vermont, and the Bill Wrangler, which assembles votes, testimony, lobbyists and state actors on one page per bill. It is free, requires no account and tracks usage rathe
When Finch Paper announced it will stop buying roundwood from Northeast suppliers, a Vermont forester with fifty years in the working landscape saw a structural collapse decades in the making — and a Connecticut private-equity firm quietly
A reader asked three sharp questions about Efficiency Vermont: has it ever said how much electricity it actually saves, would that number survive the businesses that have left Vermont, and doesn't using less power push rates up? All three a
A new Vermont Public Utility Commission report tallies more than $151 million in residential "environmental benefits" spending — but never says who paid for it. The answer, buried in the underlying records: Vermonters themselves, through ut
Chittenden County State's Attorney Sarah George is seeking a third term partly on a 2022 policy built on a study that never established why Black drivers were searched at 4x the rate of white drivers. Her opponent wants it reversed. Vermont
Vermont households paid 24.56 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity in April—30 percent above the national average and the tenth-highest in the nation. Yet every other New England state charged more, leaving Vermont with the region's lowe
Vermont has the cleanest electricity in America and among the highest rates in New England. Hawaii, blessed with tropical sun, ocean wind and volcanic geothermal heat, still burns imported oil for most of its power—at the nation's steepest
