By Colin Meyn and Anne Galloway, VTDigger.org Vermont is moving to end its current contract with Camp Hill prison in Pennsylvania, officials said on Thursday, following reports of deaths, abuse and poor treatment of Vermont inmates. Secretary of Human Services... More »
By Mike Faher, VTDigger.org Should Vermonters be legally required to buy health insurance? Officials are struggling with that question, and legislative testimony on Thursday showed there is no consensus on how or when to enact a state “individual mandate.” T... More »
By Alan J. Keays, VTDigger.org A second House panel started taking testimony Wednesday on a bill that would allow for saliva testing to detect the presence of drugs in motorists, hearing talk of legal challenges and suggested changes to safeguard the legislati... More »
By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger.org Migrant Justice is planning a protest this week against the detention of a farmworker by immigration authorities near the Vermont-Canada border earlier this month. The group, which represents immigrant farmworkers, says that J... More »
By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger.org The Vermont Senate on Thursday advanced a measure that would raise the state’s hourly minimum wage to $15 by 2024. The bill, S.40, would incrementally hike the state’s minimum wage over the next six years, from the current lev... More »
By Alan J. Keays, VTDigger.org Guidebook author and public TV travel show host Rick Steves told a Senate panel on Thursday that when pot became legal in his home state of Washington he didn’t smoke more marijuana, he just no longer felt a criminal when he did.... More »
By Kelsey Neubauer, VTDigger.org Gov. Phil Scott has told the leaders of both the Vermont House and Senate that he wants the Legislature to act quickly to pass equal pay bills, so he can sign them into law before Town Meeting Day on March 6. In a letter sent t... More »
By Tiffany Danitz Pache, VTDigger.org Vermont’s school spending in the past year is coming in far below expectations, meaning property owners will see a significant drop in expected taxes. The tax department had predicted a 3.5 percent increase in school spend... More »
By Tiffany Danitz Pache, VTDigger.org Finance Commissioner Adam Greshin said on Monday that a proposal moving through the Legislature to overhaul the state’s education funding formula does not adequately address the administration’s desire to control school sp... More »
By Mike Faher, VTDigger.org State officials may get more time to assess a proposed program that would donate unused prescriptions to those in need. The Senate on Friday gave preliminary approval to S.164, a bill that suggests creation of an “unused prescriptio... More »
By Alan J. Keays, VTDigger.org AVermont State Police say they are investigating an officer involved shooting that left a man dead following a traffic stop Sunday afternoon on Interstate 89 in Bolton. Police identified the man as Benjamin Gregware, age 42 of Sh... More »
By Alan J. Keays, VTDigger.org Aprominent lawyer hopes to make it easier for people with misdemeanor marijuana convictions to clear their names. Robert Sand, a Vermont Law School professor and former Windsor County State’s Attorney, is promoting a bill, H.865,... More »
