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The early focus in Vermont’s upcoming legislative session will be on evaluating pandemic-era investments and policies to guide next steps, plus educating newly elected members, leaders say.
On Tuesday, Gov. Phil Scott announced that his administration would, at long last, begin to offer a voluntary paid family and medical leave plan through a private insurer — first to roughly 8,000 state employees, and eventually to any employer or...
The Republican governor’s veto pen is not the only obstacle in the way of Vermont enacting the kind of leave policy that most advocates argue is necessary to make the benefit accessible to all.
Vermont Senate Democrats met Sunday to elect a new slate of leaders and unanimously nominated Sen. Phil Baruth, D/P-Chittenden, to serve as president pro tempore, the chamber’s leader.The pro tem is formally elected by the full chamber when the...
Even as Baruth celebrated his caucus’ power, he sought to manage expectations. And he signaled that he was particularly sensitive to concerns that an “arrogant” supermajority would be oblivious to the “average Vermonters’ lives, their pocketbooks, their wallets, their bills.”