Busy week? Catch up on what happened while you were working with a weekend reading list on the latest Statehouse news.
- Legalization arrested: Sen. David Zuckerman, P/D-Chittenden, introduced his much-anticipated pot legalization bill, which promptly stalled in Senate Judiciary.
- Lawmakers ousted Sergeant-at-Arms Francis Brooks in a traditionally sleepy election.
- Shumlin’s 0.7 percent payroll tax got a tepid response in House Ways and Means.
- VSEA workers took to the House chamber, calling on lawmakers not to make cuts to the state workforce.
- S.9 on the move: the Senate Judiciary Committee sent the child protection reform package on its way.
- More than 100 days later, a deal was struck in the FairPoint strike.
- Weekend read: renewable energy in Vermont could be on the brink of a revolution.
Room for debate. Jon Margolis doesn’t think primary colors suit Vermont. Jeff Danziger says not so fast.
