Jun 12, 2025 | 2025, Core Issues, Democracy Dispatch, General, Legislative Session
The 2025 legislative session has concluded, and thus, so has this season of the Democracy Dispatch. Joining me on the podcast is our executive director, Dan Fingas. We discuss the outcomes of the 2025 legislative session in Vermont, focusing on climate, environmental,...
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...
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...
