Apr 21, 2025 | 2025, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session
At the start of the 2023 legislative session, VCV launched the Democracy Dispatch podcast to accompany its weekly emails that recapped the state house updates to our members. Frankly, I was new in my role and not fully confident I could communicate about the work we...
Apr 14, 2025 | 2025, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session
Photo: Rep. Kate Logan being arrested for civil disobedience in Washington D.C., March 2025 As political scientist and historian, Howard Zinn, said, “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” When I heard...
Apr 7, 2025 | 2025, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session
Photo: Rep. Emily Carris Duncan // photo by Wild Hand Ah, remember the 2024 Election? Personally, I try not to. We already had many environmental champions choose not to seek reelection to the Vermont legislature, and then a handful of incumbents lost their contested...
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...
