Mar 31, 2025 | 2025, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session
Photo: Rep. Chea Waters Evans (center) with Attorney General Charity Clark (left) and Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas (right), Oct. 2022 // photo courtesy A healthy environment relies on a healthy democracy. Sometimes people find it surprising when they...
Mar 24, 2025 | 2025, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session
Photo: Sen. Becca White with chair of Senate Transportation, Sen. Rich Westman (R-Lamoill) (Jan. 11, 2025), photo by Rep. Matt Birong (D-Vergennes) In my neck of the woods, access to public transportation is going in reverse. Recently, Green Mountain Transit cut...
Mar 17, 2025 | 2025, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session
We’ve officially reached crossover – the time when bills in the legislature must exit their original chamber before swapping with the other. That deadline was last Friday for most bills but those that have financial provisions get an extra week this week to move...
Mar 3, 2025 | 2025, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session
Photo: Jordan Heiden with guests Jane Stromberg and Justin Marsh (Feb. 25, 2024), photo by Elijah Kushen, VPIRG Tomorrow, March 4th, is Town Meeting Day. It’s a day about as identifiably Vermont as things like cheddar cheese on apple pie, maple syrup, or stick season....
Feb 25, 2025 | 2025, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session
Photo: Vergennes Union High School’s Green Team, now led by Quincy Sabick, collected 10,000 pounds of non-recyclable soft plastic to create this bench The song “The Greatest Love of All” (written by Linda Creed and recorded and made famous by George Benson in...
Feb 18, 2025 | 2025, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session
Photo: Justin Marsh donating the remainder of their 2012 campaign balance to Kesha Ram Hinsdale on August 2, 2016 I met Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D-Chittenden-SE) a decade ago after admiring her from afar for years. Then she was a young, outspoken, progressive state...
