Busy week? Catch up with a weekend reading list on the latest Statehouse news.
• One economist says market forces aren’t working with Gov. Shumlin’s new Medicaid plan.
• Play responsibly. Lottery proceeds in Vermont all go to the Ed Fund — but soon some might go to veterans.
• House approves a ban on microbeads. The polyethylene exfoliants bill moves on to the Senate.
• Don’t inhale. Gov. Shumlin supports legalized pot, but he doesn’t want to smoke it.
• The Vermont National Guard takes on “locker room culture.” Reported sexual assault cases were down in FY2014.
• Could gun control laws start the next revolution? One gun rights activist at the Statehouse this week thought so. “They’re going to knock on the wrong door, and that will be the shot heard ’round the world.”
• Sustaining small schools: Like so many others in Vermont, Brighton Elementary is suffering from attrition.
Off the wall. If H.65 passes, your new state veggie will be the Gilfeather turnip — which, despite its name, is actually a rutabaga.
