Op-Ed: Vermont’s childcare shortage is really a housing problem
Housing is on everyone’s minds these days: How to build more of it, and how to make it affordable for more families. There are many ideas to increase funding and reduce regulations to make it more attractive for developers to build in Vermont.
Siegel: New law is a historic step forward in disability rights
The enactment of H.938, the Vermont Homelessness Response Continuum, represents the most significant disability protections ever written into Vermont's homelessness response.
OPINION: Extraction of cash, extortion, and pollution killed the data center bill
This past legislative session, Vermonters for a Clean Environment participated in the development of a responsible data center bill, H.727. Despite these efforts, Gov. Phil Scott's veto of the bill was justified due to the Senate's massive fumble.
Rep. Wood: Wrapping up a thorny biennium; running to continue in 2027
The 2026 legislative session ended with the budget, yield bill and the education bill wrapping up one of the more difficult biennium sessions in my 11 years of service to the citizens of Bolton, Buel’s Gore, Huntington and Waterbury. Even with that difficulty, I am prepared to continue this work going forward.
Sen. Watson: Reflections on the 2026 legislative session
Now that the legislative session has ended, I want to share with you some of the most important bills passed out of the legislature and passed out of Senate Natural Resources and Energy, which I chaired, and then I want to highlight what I'm at least currently perceiving as priorities going into next session, but I'd love to hear more about your thoughts on what should come next.
Molly Gray: Building the housing Vermont needs
Housing in Vermont is too expensive and too scarce. Since 2020, home prices in Vermont have risen by an average of 31%.
Letter: A state agency goes rogue
To add to the issues with the Fish and Wildlife Department’s management comes their decision to embark upon a greenwashing campaign on Vermont Public (radio).
LETTER: Vermont chef wanted for seafood cookoff in New Orleans
Lt. Gov. John Rodgers will select a Vermonter to represent the state at the 2026 Great American Seafood Cookoff in New Orleans next month. The nominee will receive $1,000 to offset travel, in addition to hotel accommodations.
Bossange: Reflections from living under a dictatorship 50 years ago
Life today in America is reminding me of my years in Brazil, where I lived in the late 1970s. At the time, Brazil was a country under the military dictatorship of General Ernesto Geisel and characterized by state-sponsored violence, pervasive censorship and political oppression.
LETTER: Vermonters decry cuts to solar net metering program
As long-standing current and former members of Vermont's active and dispersed network of town energy committees, we have worked hard to advance solutions in our communities and for our friends and neighbors in those communities to reduce energy costs, cut planet-warming pollution, and become more energy independent. Solar, which is strong, reliable, and powerful – and now the cheapest power on the planet – can do the job.
Vermont’s elections are strong. Federal support is not.
Deep cuts to federal election funding and the dismantling of cybersecurity support are leaving Vermont dangerously exposed. Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hazas is joined by three predecessors in assessing the upcoming election landscape.
LETTER: Mad River Valley Indivisible invites the community to Flag Day event
Rise Up, Sing Out is an Indivisible nationwide day of action and celebration on June 14, bringing communities together to honor the country we love on the anniversary of No Kings and Flag Day.
Commentary: Gov. Scott’s misguided data-center veto
On May 28, Gov. Phil Scott vetoed H.727, an important bill that would have protected Vermonters from the negative financial and environmental impacts of future large-scale AI data centers.
Op-Ed: Public Lands Demand Public Accountability
For the first time ever, Vermonters have an opportunity to establish formal rules governing how our public lands are managed. This may sound like an obscure bureaucratic exercise. It is anything but.
LETTER: Molly Gray is a progressive leader
Molly Gray’s recent endorsement of universal primary care (“Vermonters Deserve universal primary care,” May 15) mirrors Vermont’s investment in other progressive policies that support Vermonters’ health and well-being while saving money.
LETTER: Vermont can’t afford another year of drift
Waterbury knows what it means to build, rebuild, and keep going. But even the most resilient communities can’t outrun statewide trends forever.
LETTER: Noonan reflects upon stepping down at Central Vermont Medical Center
As I prepare to step away from my role as president of Central Vermont Medical Center, I want to express my deep gratitude for the opportunity to serve this incredible community over the past nine years.
LETTER: Let parents, students ‘opt out’ of Chromebook, iPad use in schools
I would like to share comments below that I made at the Harwood School Board at its May 26 meeting.
LETTER: Adaptive sports advocates welcome wakesports ban at the Waterbury Reservoir
AWe at Green Mountain Adaptive Sports are so pleased with the recent decision to limit wake sports on Waterbury Reservoir.
Op-Ed: Speak up now to put the ‘public’ back in public lands
Before you take to the hills this summer for camping, fishing, boating, hiking, and swimming, make sure you comment on the future of your Vermont state lands by June 18.