Apr 6, 2026 | 2026, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General
Wind turbines from the Kingdom Community Wind project on Lowell Mountain seen from Route 100 looking east from Lowell on Saturday, September 26, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger For a time, Vermont was building wind. Projects like Deerfield, Kingdom Community...
Mar 30, 2026 | 2026, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General
photo courtesy of Northwest Regional Planning Commission Last week, one of the most debated policies in the Senate was S.325, a bill that was crafted to adjust components of Act 181 – last biennium’s Act 250 land use reform policy. As debate has ramped up both...
Mar 23, 2026 | 2026, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General
Rock salt from the Vermont Agency of Transportation’s stockpile in Colchester Photo by Kevin McCallum ©️ Seven Days Happy spring!? Let’s be realistic, we are still several weeks away from the first buds and blooms. This winter (and especially after this weekend’s...
Mar 16, 2026 | 2026, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General
The Vermont legislative session has reached its “crossover” deadline. Crossover is the point where policy bills must pass out of their chamber’s committee of origin to stay alive. That makes it the perfect moment to check in on how things are going under the Golden...
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...
