By Colin Meyn, VTDigger.org Auburn Watersong, of the Vermont Network against Domestic and Sexual Violence. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger Vermont’s domestic violence coalition is calling on lawmakers to revise the state’s relief-from-abuse statute to re... More »
By Kelsey Neubauer, VTDigger.org Gov. Phil Scott. File photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger With dozens of bills arriving in Gov. Phil Scott’s office on Thursday, the push for him to sign them is officially underway. Legislative leaders are hoping the governor will... More »
By Colin Meyn, VTDigger.org Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger If Anako Lumumba had shown up for her relief-from-abuse hearing in December last year, she would have faced off with an experienced defense attorney arguing ... More »
By Alan J. Keays, VTDigger.org Sen. Dick Sears. Photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDigger A bill with a provision inspired by a what police say was a foiled school shooting plot in Fair Haven didn’t make it out of the Legislature this session. It’s unclear if the bi... More »
By Elizabeth Gribkoff, VTDigger.org Lawmakers are sworn in on the first day of the legislative session. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger Vermont’s senators and representatives worked past midnight Saturday to reach compromises on the tax bill, the budget and ot... More »
By Kelsey Neubauer, VTDigger.org Gov. Phil Scott signs the bathroom bill at a Statehouse ceremony Friday. Outright Vermont photo Vermont has become the latest state to safeguard bathroom access to people who identify as transgender or gender non-conforming, un... More »
By Xander Landen, VTDigger.org Rep. Kitty Toll, D-Danville, speaks on the House floor about the fiscal year 2018 budget. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger Paving the way for late night adjournment, the Legislature passed a $5.86 billion budget Saturday that m... More »
By Anne Galloway, VTDigger.org Speaker of the House Mitzi Johnson, D-South Hero, speaks with Minority Leader Don Turner, R-Milton, during the Saturday session at the Statehouse. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger The 2018 biennium of the Vermont Legislature came ... More »
By Mike Faher, VTDigger.org The levy would be based on the drug manufacturers’ sales in the state. Creative Commons photo. The state Senate on Thursday supported imposing a new financial assessment on opioid manufacturers, soundly defeating efforts to eliminat... More »
By Alan J. Keays, VTDigger.org Marijuana possession will become legal in Vermont on July 1. File photo by Andrew Kutches/VTDigger County prosecutors around the state are looking at coming up with a way to expunge certain marijuana convictions now that the stat... More »
By Xander Landen, VTDigger.org One of the final issues of Vermont Life on a grocery store newsstand. VTDigger photo Vermont Life, the state’s signature regional magazine which in recent years has faced financial woes and racked up millions in debt, will shutte... More »
By Tiffany Danitz Pache, VTDigger.org Tax Commissioner Kaj Samsom. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger The tax commissioner pushed back Wednesday on questions raised by fiscal analysts about the Scott administration’s five-year plan to save $300 million in school... More »
