Lawmakers across several committees on April 24 heard detailed briefings and discussed statutory language on housing finance and tax credits property tax and education fund calculations school policy mandates health and youth services fundi
Sanders and Khanna want a 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires, citing Musk as the poster child. But Musk's companies directly employ roughly 160,000 people — about half of Vermont's entire workforce — and the $42 billion headline tax would
Legislative committees on April 23 heard detailed briefings and testimony on a range of bills and budget items affecting taxes state and local spending school construction financing provider taxes housing finance tools and environmental pro
Most Vermont parents have never heard of the Trump Account, but every U.S. citizen baby born between 2025 and 2028 qualifies for a free $1,000 federal contribution that grows in an S&P 500 index fund until age 18. Here's how the program wor
Lawmaker panels on April 22 discussed a series of bills and statutory changes that touched taxes and spending school construction and environmental hazards tobacco and vaping enforcement zoning and housing exemptions data center policy and
Committee hearings on April 22 focused on bills that would create a Windham County law enforcement governance pilot expand state oversight of hospital service line changes tighten data broker regulation and adjust land use and housing rules
Members of the House Ways Means Committee heard a presentation focused on Vermont s response to federal tax changes and the state s subsequent statutory adjustments Testimony reviewed changes stemming from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and stat
Legislative committees met April 21 to consider bills and proposals touching on fees for hunting and fishing licenses expansion of agency authorities opioid abatement spending and reporting requirements housing and zoning reforms and agricu
Vermont's climate flips the environmental math on AI data centers. Closed-loop cooling, buried construction, and six months of free cooling from winter air eliminate the water use and noise that drive data center fights elsewhere. Waste hea
A Vermont Senate bill would ban AI data centers over 100 megawatts until 2030 while the Public Utility Commission studies regulation. But Vermont currently has no facility near that threshold, drawing pushback from Sen. Scott Beck, who call
You don't need their permission to use a computer. Right now, today, you can download a free operating system, put it on a USB stick, and run a computer that has never heard of H.R. 8250 and doesn't care. No account. No date of birth. No id
A bill introduced in Congress last week would require every operating system provider in the country to verify the identity of every user before that user can operate a computer. Not just children — every user. H.R. 8250, the so-called Pare
