Vermont’s CAFO transition is forcing farmers, regulators and environmental groups into a hard practical question: how to meet federal runoff standards without burying farms under unclear rules, split-agency oversight and major infrastructur
The House Ways Means Committee considered provisions affecting manufactured home communities tax treatment and optometry scope during its 14 40 meeting on May 22 Members reviewed language that would treat a manufactured home community organ
Legislative committees on May 22 considered a range of amendments and reports affecting housing taxation and fees agriculture health care financing and environmental regulation Key actions included review of Senate amendments to a manufactu
Legislative committees on May 21 considered a series of amendments and technical fixes touching mandates administrative authority spending and tax matters and land use and consumer privacy provisions Major items included changes to the cont
Lawmakers across multiple committees on May 21 reviewed bills and amendments that would impose or extend mandates alter spending priorities expand regulatory authority and change rights and enforcement provisions in areas including school e
Legislative committee meetings on May 20 covered a range of fiscal and policy matters with focus in Appropriations and Finance on school PCB testing and remediation funding producer responsibility and container handling fees and education s
Lawmaking sessions across multiple committees on May 20 produced detailed discussion of proposed regulatory changes and spending adjustments Committees considered amendments affecting tobacco licensing and enforcement housing finance and ap
At a House Appropriations hearing on May 19 committee members reviewed a multifaceted agriculture and natural resources bill that includes new licensing registration and enforcement provisions for hemp and hemp derived products... #fyivt #
Committee meetings across both chambers on May 19 covered a range of policy matters with high priority discussion of hospital pricing and board authority permitting and enforcement for data centers a technical advisory committee report on o
As Vermont debates immigration policy, school safety, bail reform, and public enforcement, a deeper constitutional question is emerging: what legal duty does government actually owe individual citizens when foreseeable harm occurs? Court ru
If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact had been active in 2024, Vermont would have awarded its electoral votes to Donald Trump despite the state voting heavily for Kamala Harris. With Virginia now joining the compact, the agreement
A recent immigration-enforcement incident in South Burlington is fueling a broader debate in Vermont over public safety, immigration policy, and whether modern political discourse increasingly treats law enforcement itself as the primary pr
