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.
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
Vermont’s climate policies burden residents with costly mandates for negligible global impact. With emissions contributing just 0.13% of the U.S. total, the state’s sacrifices under the Paris Accord resemble a "Nigerian prince" scam: high c
More for-sale signs, prices still rising, and two-thirds of young Vermonters saying they want out. Vermont's housing market isn't crashing — it's trapping people. We built an interactive dashboard tracking every moving part, from the signs
Vermont has spent decades trying to preserve its rural character through regulation. But when protecting the past begins preventing the future, preservation becomes stagnation. Using the metaphor of amber, this commentary explores how layer
Air conditioning is not under attack in Vermont today, but climate policy elsewhere shows how affordable cooling can be squeezed through refrigerant rules, appliance standards, building codes, and approved technologies. As heat risks rise,
Vermont ranks dead last in the nation for economic momentum, according to the Vermont Futures Project. Robert Roper examines the data, challenges an AI analysis, and argues that Vermont's highly progressive tax structure isn't a strength bu
Vermont has spent more than $604 million on clean water initiatives since 2015, preventing an estimated 124,000 pounds of phosphorus from reaching Lake Champlain. But with legacy phosphorus continuing to leach from decades of federally enco
Act 59 set Vermont on path toward 30x30 and 50x50, but the real cost is only now coming into focus. State inventory numbers point to hundreds of millions or billions in conservation costs, plus tax, housing, permitting, and grand-list press
Vermont Conservation Design began as a technical conservation framework, not a voter initiative or standalone law. Over the next decade, its concepts moved through Act 171, Act 59, and Act 181, becoming part of Vermont’s planning and land-u
