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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MONTPELIER — The process of addressing the state’s multi-billion dollar unfunded pension liability took a significant step Thursday, as the House gave preliminary approval to a bill changing the pension funds’ governance and convening a task force to find solutions to a $5.6 billion problem. The bill, H. 449, expands the Vermont Pension Investment Committee to 10 members and makes it an independent commission. It also sets forth the membership and charge of a 15-member task force to study how to cut the state’s yearly p...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   PUTNEY — State Sen. Jeanette White, D-Windham, knows that the comments she made during a Judiciary Committee hearing April 2 were racially insensitive, and that many people were not satisfied with her subsequent apology for those comments. She says she is sorry, on both accounts. “I’m not trying to justify myself and say I don’t have prejudices and biases,” White said Friday. “I’m trying to learn all the time. But I don’t consider myself a racist.” White, the senior senator from the Windham dist...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MONTPELIER — Members of the Vermont Senate will spend some time with educators from the Vermont Human Rights Commission and Outright Vermont in the aftermath of comments made during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month — including a racially insensitive comment made by Sen. Jeanette White, for which she later apologized. Bor Yang, the executive director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission, said Balint and House Speaker Jill Krowinski reached out more than a month ago for a follow-up to training provided earl...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MONTPELIER —Slowly but surely, the Human Services Committee of the Vermont House of Representatives worked through a thicket of details and emerged Tuesday with unanimous consent for a bill proposing significant changes for child care in Vermont. The bill, H. 171, passed 11-0 after the committee spent the better part of the day hammering out language governing proposed studies and “mini-studies” to determine the cost of proposed changes, and how the state might pay for them. The original bill proposed a three-year ramp-up of...

Transgender lawmakers condemn Tuberville Amendment, urge passage of Equality Act National Transgender State Legislators Caucus speaks out amid continued political attacks on transgender community 468SHARES Clockwise, from top left: State Rep. Briana Titone (Photo courtesy of Briana Titone), Del. Danica Roem (Photo: Julian Vankim), State Rep. Gerri Cannon (Photo: Facebook), State Rep. Taylor Small (Photo: Facebook), State Sen. Sarah McBride (Photo: B Proud), State Rep. Lisa Bunker (Photo: Facebook) and State Rep. Stephanie Byers (Photo: Facebook). Seven of the eight out transgender people curr...