Mar 2, 2026 | 2026, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General
Crews from NorthStar tear down a section of the water cooling towers at the decommissioned Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon in 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger As electricity demand rises and climate deadlines tighten, nuclear power is back in policy...
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...
