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Legislative Wrap-up: Bills we could see next year

Legislative Wrap-up: Bills we could see next year

Among the bills that didn't make it to the finish line this session are those relating to Taser regulation, campaign finance reform, unionization for child-care workers and deputy state's attorneys, and social media privacy.

Legislative Wrap-up: Transportation

Legislative Wrap-up: Transportation

The Legislature raised the gas tax by 6 cents per gallon to avoid losing $60 million in federal transportation funds. And undocumented farmworkers in Vermont gained the right to obtain driving privilege cards.

Legislative Wrap-up: Agency fees

Legislative Wrap-up: Agency fees

The legislation, S.14, requires an estimated 2,600 education, state and municipal employees who aren’t union members to pay fees of up to 85 percent of yearly union dues.

Legislative Wrap-up: End of life choice bill

Legislative Wrap-up: End of life choice bill

Vermont is poised to become the first state to permit physician-assisted suicide through legislative action.

In This State: Rokeby Museum’s new exhibit tells story of escaped slaves in Vermont

In This State: Rokeby Museum's new exhibit tells story of escaped slaves in Vermont

A picture emerges in “Free and Safe” of Vermont as a place where former slaves could live openly, finding the right combination of farm employment and relative security from recapture.

Cigna leads Vermont health insurers in denied claims

Cigna leads Vermont health insurers in denied claims

Company also claims it didn't understand procedure in disclosing executive compensation to Vermont regulators.

Legislative Wrap-up: Judiciary

Legislative Wrap-up: Judiciary

Access to police investigation files, pension forfeiture for convicted state employees, limits on license plate readers among judiciary highlights.

Legislative Wrap-up: Agriculture and consumer issues

Legislative Wrap-up: Agriculture and consumer issues

It was a good year for progressive agriculture initiatives in the Statehouse.

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SCOV Law: Independent elections

SCOV Law: Independent elections

Essentially, this is a case about filing-petitions-for-candidate deadlines — but more specifically, it’s about the constitutionality of Vermont’s deadlines.

Sen. Dick Sears, chair of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, says his committee has reached a compromise with the governor that would allow police to access information from health care providers that would help them track prescription drug abuse. VTD/Alan Panebaker

Lawmakers to examine lobbyists for publicly funded groups

Senate could invoke rarely used power to subpoena stubborn organizations.

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The Golden Bubble. VTD/Josh Larkin

Session comes to an end: Lawmakers leave citing social changes, conservative budget

If the Democratic majority in the Senate and House could be described as fiscally conservative, their policy decisions on a handful of social issues were liberal, even uber liberal.

Danziger cartoon

Krupp: Addiction to addiction

The food industry’s goal is to get people hooked on foods that are addictive, convenient and inexpensive. … Coca-Cola and Doritos won their success with complex formulas that tells the brain to not stop eating. It’s called the “bliss point.”

Jaffe: Stop the war on guns …

Like the War on Drugs, new gun laws are not aimed at criminals; they are brutal attempts to change the longstanding behaviors of currently law-abiding or otherwise law-abiding citizens.