Busy week? Catch up on what happened while you were working with a weekend reading list on the latest Statehouse news.
- Legalize local: If Vermont is going to legalize pot, let’s do it the “Vermont way,” says this group of Green Mountain entrepreneurs.
- Lots of Vermonters are on Medicaid, including one person who made more than $100,000 last year.
- A $600 couch for $1,300: rent-to-own companies go under the microscope in Montpelier.
- Fewer districts, fewer small school grants: House Education has a 27-page reform bill on their committee table.
- Posting “revenge porn” could soon be a civil and criminal offense.
Rep. Tony Klein, D-East Montpelier, said that the state could use incentives to encourage renewable energy projects to be built in developed areas.
- If Gov. Shumlin’s proposal goes through, Vermont would be the first state to fund Medicaid with a payroll tax.
Off the wall. Sen. Joe Benning, R-Caledonia-Orange, is giving Vermont a lesson in Latin and civics: stella quarta decima.
