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Reps. Small & Colburn: Gov. Scott is failing Vermonters on overdose prevention

By Commentary

Jun 19 2022June 16, 2022

Let us say it again: Everything is not fine. We need the Scott administration to take the overdose fatality crisis seriously and act with informed compassion now.


Rep. Seth Bongartz: Act 250 veto shows Scott’s lack of vision

By Commentary

Jun 16 2022June 15, 2022

Vermont is fast becoming a haven for people able to work remotely, including climate-change refugees. While this influx of people, their skills and their kids can be good for us, we need to be ready to handle the accompanying pressures on our rural landscape.


John McClaughry: Watch out for a heating oil crunch

By Commentary

Jun 15 2022June 14, 2022

Over time, higher fossil fuel prices will drive a shift to more energy efficiency. Unless governments screw them up, markets work. Meanwhile, let’s hope that global warming brings us a string of milder winters.


Reps. Pugh & Whitman: How to save a life — the true intentions of H.728

By Commentary

Jun 12 2022June 10, 2022

While it is frustrating to postpone policy progress for another year, we are optimistic that the Legislature and the administration will be able to return to the table, hear from Vermonters, and find solutions. If the pandemic has taught us anything, public health should not be political.


After Gov. Phil Scott vetoes conservation bill, environmental group ready to ‘play hardball’

By Emma Cotton

Jun 2 2022June 2, 2022

Zack Porter, executive director of Standing Trees, said the conservation group would “use every option that we have to force the state to follow the law of the land.” The Vermont Natural Resources Council also criticized the veto.


Scott vetoes bill that would have updated Act 250

By Emma Cotton

Jun 1 2022June 1, 2022

The governor cited concerns that the bill would have impacted development needed to ease Vermont’s housing crisis. Environmental and wildlife advocates say the bill would have relaxed Act 250 in downtown areas, while providing needed protections for forests.


Scott vetoes 2 criminal justice reform bills, citing public safety concerns

By Alan J. Keays

May 20 2022May 20, 2022

The governor has now vetoed 32 pieces of legislation, a Vermont record. A distant second is former Gov. Howard Dean, who issued 21 vetoes while serving twice as long in office as Scott has.


Act 250 bill heads to the governor’s desk, where it faces a likely veto

By Emma Cotton

May 12 2022May 12, 2022

Lawmakers posed a series of last-minute changes and amendments after the governor announced his intentions to strike the bill down.


Lawmakers advance deal on rental housing, omitting registry opposed by Gov. Phil Scott

By Fred Thys

May 11 2022May 11, 2022

A compromise bill to provide more rental housing and stricter inspections is headed to the governor's desk, but House and Senate negotiators have shelved a proposal to create a statewide rental registry.


Final Reading: Not nuthin'

By Lola Duffort, Sarah Mearhoff and Riley Robinson

May 10 2022May 10, 2022

Thomas Bock

House lawmakers narrowly failed to override Gov. Phil Scott’s vetoes on two bills: A Burlington charter change that would ban no-cause evictions, and the clean heat standard. Each failed by just one vote — and seemed to blindside legislative leadership.


Scott announces plan to veto Act 250 bill over housing concerns

By Emma Cotton

May 10 2022May 11, 2022

While environmental groups laud a bill that proposes changes to Vermont’s sweeping land use and development law, Scott and others oppose it due to concerns that it doesn’t go far enough to address Vermont’s housing crisis and would “actually make it much more difficult to build homes.”


By one vote, House fails to override veto of the clean heat standard

By Emma Cotton

May 10 2022May 10, 2022

Vermont’s House of Representatives has sent the state’s largest climate bill back to the drawing board.


House fails to override governor’s veto on Burlington ‘just cause eviction’ bill

By Jack Lyons

May 10 2022May 11, 2022

In a surprise result, the charter change fell one vote short of advancing to the Senate after Gov. Phil Scott vetoed the measure last week.


House overrides Scott's pension reform veto, enacting it into law

By Lola Duffort

May 6 2022May 6, 2022

The vote was 148-0. The Senate voted to override the governor’s veto — also unanimously — on Wednesday. This is the first time a veto has been unanimously overridden in both chambers in state history, according to the House speaker’s office.


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