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Across Vermont, networks of volunteers push back on Trump’s immigration enforcement
From verifying ICE sightings to keeping track of detainees, activists across the state are responding to ICE actions amid a climate of fear.
Follow Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark’s legal actions, with other jurisdictions and states, challenging actions taken by President Donald Trump.
Under Trump, ICE check-ins in Vermont have shifted
Advocates say people are required to check in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in person, more frequently, and with less support.
State and employees’ union butt heads over telework in Vermont’s highest court
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments over whether Gov. Phil Scott had the right to order state employees back to the office without union bargaining.
Ralph Wright, ‘revered and feared’ longest-serving Vermont House speaker, dies at 91
“As long as it wasn’t against the law, didn’t require that I go to confession, or wouldn’t break up my marriage, I did it,” the charismatic yet cutthroat Bennington Democrat once claimed.
Partial rollback of Vermont’s land-use law Act 181 becomes official with Phil Scott’s signature
The move marks a win for a broad coalition of rural landowners who organized en masse to protest against Act 181, a land-use permitting overhaul passed in 2024.
Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund surpasses its $1 million goal year after founding
The funding was achieved through donations from Vermonters and contributors from more than 30 other states.
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After years of stifling heat, Vermont invests nearly $10.5 million in prison air conditioning
The state approved spending more than in the last four years combined on making HVAC upgrades in the state facilities.
Pleading for routine purchases: Inside the chaos at the Forest Service in Vermont
“It’s all slowed down right now and there is tons of confusion in the system,” a senior Forest Service official wrote to staff in a May 2025 email that was among internal documents obtained by VTDigger.
Hybrid town meeting benefits to be studied in Charlotte
The town will explore a move to Australian ballot voting.
Musical chairs: Many Vermont House and Senate leaders won’t seek reelection
Come January, new faces are set to fill many of the key roles dictating which bills receive attention and who gets to testify on them.
‘A critical moment’: US Supreme Court lets Vermont continue suit claiming Meta hid harms to youth
“It would be contrary to our system of justice if people who were operating in the online marketplace were judgment proof,” said Vermont’s attorney general.
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