Feb 26, 2026 | 2025, Core Issues, General, Legislative Session, Press Release
Today, Vermont Conservation Voters (VCV) released the Vermont Congressional delegation’s scores for the League of Conservation Voters’ 2025 National Environmental Scorecard, which highlights our state’s leaders’ work to protect our environment and democracy. Since...
Feb 23, 2026 | 2026, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General
Rep. Laura Sibilia (I-Dover), speaks on the House floor in February 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Artificial intelligence is booming. Cloud computing is expanding. And across the country, massive data centers are being proposed and built at a rapid pace. These...
Feb 16, 2026 | 2026, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General
Pictured above is a postal sorting cabinet living a second life. It was then taken from a Deconstruction Works site in Williamstown, MA and repurposed as a cafe bar at Flat Iron Exchange in Rockingham, VT Our economy is built on extraction and disposal. We mine it,...
Feb 9, 2026 | 2026, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General
You don’t have to be paying close attention to notice that our state treasurer, Mike Pieciak, is seemingly everywhere. Whether you’re scrolling on socials, at a community event, watching the news, or cleaning out your inbox – Treasurer Pieciak is omnipresent....
Feb 4, 2026 | 2026, Democracy Dispatch, General, Sustainable Communities
A week ago today, I stood behind advocates, citizens, and legislators at a press conference in the State House calling on the passage of a suite of bills that would tax the richest Vermonters. After the passage of H.R. 1, states have been left to foot the bill for...
Jan 26, 2026 | 2026, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session, Toxics
Like Senator Martine Larocque Gulick (D-Chittenden-C), a few months ago I had never heard about paraquat. And perhaps you, loyal Democracy Dispatch readers, are also scratching your heads wondering what in the world I am writing about. No, it’s not some exotic fruit...
