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| May 22, 2026 | From clergy to coaches, states debate who should report child abuse and neglect | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org
Conversations with survivors of sexual abuse left Missouri state Sen. Tracy McCreery wondering what could have prevented the harm, leading her to sponsor a bill th... |
| Jul 23, 2025 | Republican senators join Dems on bill to exempt small businesses from Trump’s Canada tariffs | Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., has introduced a bill that would exempt millions of U.S. small businesses from President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods.
Two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, are cospo... |
| May 22, 2025 | States Forced To Kill Millions In Rural Broadband Investment After Trump Illegally Kills The Digital Equity Act… Simply For Having The Word ‘Equity’ In It | Last week we noted how Trump illegally declared he was killing the $2.75 billion Digital Equity Act. The law, passed as part of the infrastructure bill, was slated to bring millions in new broadband grants and digital literacy tools to Amer... |
| Jul 5, 2024 | National Politics | 13 states with Republican governors opt out of summer food program for kids | Related Articles
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| Mar 12, 2024 | Health | Fluoride in public water has slashed tooth decay, but some states may end mandates | Robbie Sequeira | (TNS) Stateline.org
Kentucky state Rep. Mark Hart has been drinking fluoridated water his entire life. In 1954, five years before Hart was born, his home state mandated adding or adjusting levels of the mineral, which occu... |
| Jan 19, 2024 | Threats against members of Congress went back up in 2023 | Investigations into threats against members of Congress rose again in 2023 after dipping in 2022 from their post-Jan. 6 high, according to data released by the U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday.
Why it matters: The rise in threat assessment c... |
| Apr 11, 2023 | Vermont Lawmakers Considers Mileage-Based Tax Credits on Electric Vehicles | Inno Flores, Tech Times 11 April 2023, 10:04 pm
Vermont lawmakers are preparing for mileage-based EV tax credits by proposing a bill to make up for lost revenue. H.479 Bill, which is an act relating to the Transportation Program, was passed... |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Democracy on the ballot — will the remaining election deniers succeed? | In the 2022 midterms a large number of election deniers ran and most of them lost. But that doesn’t mean that the threats they pose to democracy are over. The most high-profile election denier at this point (besides, of course, former Presi... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Close The Border To Canadian Health Care | TORONTO, ON- OCTOBER 29 - American Senator Bernie Sanders talks at Convocation Hall to talk about ... [+] Canadian healthcare at the University of Toronto in Toronto. October 29, 2017. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)Toronto St... |
| Nov 11, 2022 | Chipmaker 'GlobalFoundries' to Conduct Job Cuts and Freeze Hiring Soon | Inno Flores, Tech Times 11 November 2022, 07:11 pm
GlobalFoundries, known as the biggest provider of semiconductors in the United States, is planning to conduct job cuts and freeze hiring soon after reporting its third-quarter earnings.
(Ph... |
| Oct 30, 2022 | Exploring the beauty of Vermont's towns (all 251+ of them) | Vermont is known as the Green Mountain State. But come autumn, its mountain slopes are anything but green. As the leaves turn red and yellow and orange, picturesque towns turn into tourist hotspots.
Loretta Cruz and Aaron Agnew aren't ... |
| Jul 19, 2022 | Gas Prices Hurt People Going To The Doctor, But Interstate Telehealth Can Help | Everyone can’t help but notice that since the end of 2020, prices at the pump have nearly doubled across America. Gas costs $4.50 a gallon in Texas, $4.40 in Missouri, and over $6.00 in California. This means double the cost for road trips,... |
| Apr 15, 2022 | Cops Lie: Falsifying Traffic Stops Edition | Cops lie. It’s a statement more factual than statements cops — the people given the biggest benefit of a doubt in “your word against mine” courtroom showdowns — tend to make when testifying or filling out reports. |
| Mar 21, 2022 | Senators Leahy & Tillis To Team Up To Suggest Destroying The Internet For Hollywood’s Sake | I guess ten years is long enough that Senator Pat Leahy thought everyone had forgotten about the SOPA/PIPA disaster that he was a leading reason for. Senator Leahy is on his way out of the Senate, and apparently has at least one last gift i... |
| Dec 28, 2021 | Что происходит с сетевым нейтралитетом в Европе | В нашем блоге мы подробно освещали ситуацию с отменой и частичным возвратом правил net neutrality в США. Сегодня посмотрим, как обстоят дела в Евросоюзе. Там произошли два события, которые могут отразиться на работе провайдеров.Unsplash / d... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | Sen. Patrick Leahy, who presided over Trump’s 2nd impeachment trial and is currently the longest serving senator, announces his retirement | Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont presides on the 5th day of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial at the US Capitol on February 13, 2021. Congress.gov via Getty Images
Sen. Patrick Leahy, currently the Senate’s lo... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | A Democratic congressman disclosed his wife's ExxonMobil stock sale late — days after he grilled the oil company's CEO at an oversight hearing | Democratic Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont questions ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods during a congressional hearing on October 28, 2021. C-SPAN
Welch is an outspoken environmentalist and government-reform advocate.
The congressman questioned ExxonM... |
| Oct 29, 2021 | Electric school buses are a smart move | In-person school is in full swing for many students this fall, and more and more of them get to ride there on all-electric buses that help clear the air in their communities while saving school districts money on fueling. More than half of ... |
| May 4, 2021 | Meet Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, the Republican power couple caught up in the FBI’s Rudy Giuliani investigation | Rudolph Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, and Victoria Toensing, attorneys for then-President Donald Trump, conduct a news conference. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Image
Victoria Toensing was served a search warrant alongside Rudy Giul... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | Localvore App Helps Feed Vermonters During Pandemic | Fresh from a year-long stint at Groupon, Dan White moved to Vermont in 2011 with an idea–to localize the popular couponing platform in a way that supported Vermont farmers, producers, and restaurants.
By 2017, the Localvore app had 20,000 c... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | Localvore App Helps Feed Vermonters During Pandemic | By Janice St. Onge, President of the Flexible Capital Fund |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Senators Leahy And Tillis -- Both Strongly Supported By Hollywood -- Ask Merrick Garland To Target Streaming Sites | As you'll likely recall, at the very end of last year, Senator Thom Tillis, the head of the intellectual property subcommittee in the Senate, slipped a felony streaming bill into the grand funding omnibus. As we noted at the time, this... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Senators Leahy And Tillis — Both Strongly Supported By Hollywood — Ask Merrick Garland To Target Streaming Sites | As you’ll likely recall, at the very end of last year, Senator Thom Tillis, the head of the intellectual property subcommittee in the Senate, slipped a felony streaming bill into the grand funding omnibus. As we noted at the time, this bill... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | Vista Global Acquires Private Jet Broker Used By Bernie Sanders, Shaquille O’Neil | The wave of consolidation in private aviation continues. This morning, Dubai-based Vista Global Holding said it is acquiring Apollo Jets, a large charter broker of private aircraft, and Talon Air, the 14th largest charter operator in the U.... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | Why Is Congress Pushing For Locking Up More Culture? | In a weird bit of performative nonsense, Senators Thom Tillis and Pat Leahy, along with Representatives Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Mace, have come together to... try to help kids lock up culture under copyright. Specifically, they want a bil... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | Why Is Congress Pushing For Locking Up More Culture? | In a weird bit of performative nonsense, Senators Thom Tillis and Pat Leahy, along with Representatives Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Mace, have come together to… try to help kids lock up culture under copyright. Specifically, they want a bill ... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | Data breaches at UPMC, Nebraska Medicine affect 250,000+ individuals | It’s not just providers who are targets.
Charles J. Hilton & Associates P.C. — which provides billing-related legal services to UPMC — alerted the health system that the personal data of more than 36,000 of its patients may have been co... |
| Dec 21, 2020 | No One Is Safe And Why You Should Be Worried | A wave of recent cyber attacks illustrate how important it is to remain vigilant and take security ... [+] measures.AFP via Getty Images |
| Nov 3, 2020 | LIVE RESULTS: Republican Gov. Phil Scott wins Vermont’s Election for Governor | Republican Gov. Phil Scott is projected to win re-election in Vermont against Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, Decision Desk HQ.
Scott, a moderate, has one of the highest governor approval ratings in the country. He has previously served as lieute... |
| Aug 28, 2020 | 5 States Now Aim To Pay Full $400 Extra Weekly Unemployment Benefit | 2 more states - Vermont and Kansas - announced their intent to pay the full $400 unemployment ... [+] benefit from Trump's Lost Wages Assistance program administered by FEMA, instead of the extra $300 that most states are paying. Getty... |
| May 22, 2020 | Morning Brief: 5 experts predict the future of renewable energy, PG&E has procured more than 1 GW of storage | 5 experts predict the future of renewable energy amid coronavirus: Many experts say the clean-energy sector is tanking, with an estimated 500,000 newly unemployed workers by the end of June. On the other hand, solar power is providing a lar... |
| Mar 31, 2020 | Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way: East Coast States And Cities Accelerate On Decarbonization Pathway | A noticeable pattern is emerging on the East Coast: In the first quarter of this year, states and cities are enacting laws that codify dramatic emissions reductions and accelerate the clean energy transformation. |
| Feb 7, 2020 | Comcast “not welcome” here: Customers protest sale of tiny cable company | You can check out any time you'd like, but you can never... well, you know the song.
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| Aug 20, 2019 | Benchmark Space Systems to Debut With Launch in 2020 | Benchmark Space Systems, developer of satellite space technologies, will join Firefly Aerospace (Austin, TX) on an inaugural flight to space in early 2020. Benchmark Space focuses on providing non-toxic propulsion systems for small satellit... |
| Jun 7, 2019 | $37 for new solar in Vermont, BOfA to build 60 projects, module pricing stable – more!: pvMB 6/7/19 | Bank of America launches initiative to install solar panels across its operations: “Six Bank of America financial centers (in California, Florida and Pennsylvania) and two office locations (in Nevada and North Carolina) have already benefit... |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Ex-Google exec Matt Dunne has a plan to create a string of tech hubs across rural America | It’s no secret that while Silicon Valley is gaining jobs, rural America is losing them. A September report from the Economic Innovation Group found that nearly 90 percent of the ZIP codes in the U.S. that qualify as “economically distressed... |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Ex-Google exec Matt Dunne has a plan to create a string of tech hubs across rural America | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s no secret that while Silicon Valley is gaini... |
| Nov 7, 2017 | Moosehead Still At It: Sues Hop 'N Moose Brewing For Trademark Infringement | Despite all of the coverage we provide on alcohol-related trademark disputes, Moosehead Breweries has still managed to separate itself from the pack with its aggressive trademark enforcement behavior. You should recall that this is the brew... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | T.J. Whalen Joins the Firm to Launch FreshTracks 4 | Shelburne, VT (January 19, 2017) – FreshTracks Capital has launched a new venture fund designed to heat up new business in Vermont. FreshTracks Capital IV – the fourth fund in FreshTracks Capital’s family of Vermont-focused early-stage inve... |
| Oct 28, 2016 | It’s time for primary care providers to embrace treating addiction | Many primary care practitioners have been avoiding the battle against opioid addiction and opioid overdoses. But they shouldn’t.
Embedded in their communities, primary care doctors and nurses are perfectly positioned to treat addiction and ... |
| May 9, 2013 | Vermont House of Representatives gives green light to GMO labeling bill | First, the bill must be approved in the Senate, which will not now likely get the opportunity to look at it until January 2014.
If it is approved by the Senate, it will then be effective two years after the date it is passed, or 18 months ... |
| May 26, 2011 | What if a tweet cost your nonprofit $18,000 in Comcast funding?: Roundup | Every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates.DEFINITE READS
Comcast yanks funds f... |
| Feds looking into Bernie Sanders’ wife over real estate deal | ASSOCIATED PRESS / JULY 28
Sen. Bernie Sanders and his wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, have hired lawyers in the face of federal investigations into the finances of the now-defunct Burlington College, which closed last year due.
MONTPELIER, Vt.... |
| Vermont will start sending $1,000 checks to parents, stepping up after Congress failed to renew their program | Fathers with their new child. Willie B. Thomas/Getty Images
For six months, American parents got monthly child tax credit checks from the federal government.
Congress failed to renew the program after resistance from Republicans and Sen. Jo... |
| Washington, DC's police force is offering $20,000 bonuses to attract new officers amid labor shortage hiring struggles | New starters will be given $10,000 as an initial hiring bonus and a further $10,000 once they complete a 24-week police academy. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Washington, DC is giving new cops a $20,000 hiring bonus amid a "v... |
| Sen. Patrick Leahy, who presided over Trump's 2nd impeachment trial and is currently the longest serving senator, announces his retirement | Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont presides on the 5th day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial at the US Capitol on February 13, 2021. Congress.gov via Getty Images
Sen. Patrick Leahy, currently the Senate... |
| EGEB: Vermont lowers solar net meter rates — thoughts, Bernie Sanders? | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Vermont’s Public Utilities Commission slashes solar net metering rates by 3 cents.
Québec’s public utility Hydro-Québec launches EVLO, an energy storage system subsidiary.
The UK breaks a green... |
| Data breaches at UPMC, Nebraska Medicine affect 250,000+ individuals | Even as the novel coronavirus was raging in the U.S. last year, providers were concurrently fighting a different scourge: hackers.
Several major providers experienced IT incidents in 2020, including the 26-hospital Universal Health Services... |
| 9 vacation hot spots that are leveling Airbnbs with regulations and restrictions to curb the surge of short-term rentals | New Orleans is cracking down on short-term rentals. The city — shown here, its main drag of bars and restaurants, Bourbon Street — draws about 20 million tourists a year. SeanPavonePhoto / iStock This story is available exclusively to Insid... |
| Turning Telephone Booths into charging stations | This NYTimes piece showcases something that’s been talked about for some time: Turning phone booths, which typically are adjacent to street parking, into charging stations.
“I think that perhaps 3,000 phones could be converted, with two to ... |
| How the test-to-treat pillar of the U.S. Covid strategy is failing patients | The federal “test-to-treat” program, announced in March, is meant to reduce covid hospitalizations and deaths by quickly getting antiviral pills to people who test positive. But even as cases rise again, many Americans don’t have access to ... |
