Vermont's Agency of Human Services is rewriting Medicaid estate recovery rules that could affect what happens to your family's assets after a loved one dies on long-term care Medicaid. Most Vermonters don't know the state can file as a cred
Senator Bernie Sanders recently published a video conversation with Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, in which the AI obligingly endorsed a data center moratorium and validated Sanders' tech policy agenda. FYIVT ran the same questions throu
Vermont towns facing repeat theft and chronic disturbances often look to state courts for answers. But municipalities have their own tools—civil ordinances, trespass systems, and nuisance enforcement—that can help stabilize problem areas lo
The Vermont Senate advanced S.206 on a 21-7 vote, a bill that would require early childhood educators in non-public childcare settings to obtain state licenses through the Office of Professional Regulation. Two dissenting senators raised po
State lawmakers on March 27 heard extensive testimony and discussion across multiple committees on education funding and implementation of Act 73 proposals to change indoor air testing requirements in schools tax relief measures including c
Lawmakers in several standing committees on March 27 received testimony and reviewed amendments on health care cost and patient protections housing and eviction procedures capital spending allocations early childhood education funding studi
Vermont lawmakers are moving to redefine pre-kindergarten as part of a “fundamental right” to education, assembling proposals across committees into a broader reform effort while leaving major funding and implementation questions unresolved
Legislative committees on March 26 heard testimony and discussed a range of proposals and amendments affecting landowner posting requirements and enforcement tenant representation and housing related pilot programs career and technical educ
Lawmakers and witnesses addressed a broad set of policy changes in a series of committee meetings on March 26 focusing on mandates property posting and signage rules waterbody reclassification and protections portable solar device statutes
A controversial union-linked density bonus was stripped from Vermont’s S.328 housing bill—but not rejected. Lawmakers openly signaled it could return. The debate exposes a deeper fight over whether state policy should steer who builds housi
Members of the House Ways Means Committee met on March 25 and heard multiple proposals addressing income and property taxes education spending and related fiscal impacts... #fyivt #vtleg #goldendome #vermontpolitics
Members of the House Human Services Committee discussed early education funding and implementation of recent education acts Witnesses and committee members addressed the status of Act 73 and concerns about uncertainty around its implementat
