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Study calls for major changes in Vermont’s education funding formula
Rep. Kate Webb, D-Shelburne, chair of the House Education Committee, takes notes during a tour of an Early Childhood Program in Barton last month. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A long-awaited,...
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Key House committee advances marijuana sales bill with 20% tax
Rep. Janet Ancel, D-Calais, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, discusses a cannabis regulation bill Wednesday. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The House Ways and Means Committee advanced...
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Scott’s tax credit proposals draw mixed response from Dems
Rep. Kitty Toll, D-Danville, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A package of new tax credits...
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Coronavirus fallout hits education funding
A school bus drives down a Vermont country road. Photo by Cate Chant/VTDigger VTDigger is posting regular updates on the coronavirus in Vermont on this page. You can also subscribe here for regular...
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Vermont could lose $430 million in revenue next fiscal year, economist says
Every business on Montpelier’s Langdon Street is closed to in-person business. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger The Vermont Legislature’s economist projects revenue losses from the Covid-19 crisis...
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Vermont House prepares $600 million Covid-19 spending package
House Speaker Mitzi Johnson presides over a session March 25, 2020, to advance emergency Covid-19 legislation. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger VTDigger posts regular coronavirus updates on this page....
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Property tax rates set for average 3-cent rise as lawmakers pass ed funding bill
Montpelier High School. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Lawmakers have sent legislation setting next year’s school taxes to the governor’s desk, and property taxes will go up if the measure is...
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House and Senate near deal on retail marijuana bill
A jar of marijuana buds on display at a shop in Long Beach, California. Photo by Dank Depot/Flickr The House and Senate have neared a deal on legislation that would create a legal marketplace for...
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Tax commission recommends using income tax to fund education
Rep. Janet Ancel, D-Calais, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, shown in a pre-pandemic photo, believes the current system for financing schools is overly complicated. In the background at...
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Legislators reject tax hike on the wealthy to help solve pension crisis
Rep. Brian Cina, P-Burlington, is shown speaking on the House floor in April 2019. He was the lead sponsor of an amendment to add a tax surcharge to address the state’s pension crisis. Photo by Glenn...
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Vermont House passes cloud tax, corporate tax reforms
Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, D-Brattleboro, at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, January 7, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Vermont House passed a wide-ranging tax bill Friday that...
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House panel moves to increase unemployment benefits by $25 per week
Rep. Michael Marcotte, R-Newport, chair of the House Commerce & Economic Development Committee at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A Vermont...
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Lawmaker wonders whether press’s physical presence in Statehouse is essential
The Vermont Statehouse on August 24, 2020. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger While discussing preparations for the 2022 legislative session Thursday, a lawmaker wondered how essential it is that the...
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State expects an ‘unprecedented’ $90 million surplus in the education fund....
This spring, Vermont lawmakers may have a welcome question on their hands: what to do with a $90 million surplus in the state’s education fund. State tax officials unveiled the projected surplus in...
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Top Vermont lawmaker proposes $1,200 child tax credit modeled after the feds
Rep. Janet Ancel, D-Calais, listens during a meeting at the Statehouse in Montpelier on July 30. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger As payments for the expanded federal tax credit end, one top...
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Final Reading: Conserving 30 by 30
Rep. Amy Sheldon, D-Middlebury, at her desk at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Feb. 27, 2020. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Vermont House gave preliminary approval Tuesday for the state to...
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House approves bill to put Education Fund surplus toward universal meals
A bill under consideration would direct $36 million to lowering next year’s school property taxes and $15 million toward career and technical education. Another $36 million would be set aside in a...
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As lawmakers settle differences on the ‘tampon tax bill,’ they won’t be...
Sen. Ann Cummings, D-Washington, speaks on the floor of the Senate at the Statehouse in Montpelier on May 3, 2019. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The only thing lawmakers won’t talk about as...
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Lawmakers mull competing proposals on how to overhaul school funding system
School buses line up to drop off students at the Allen Brook School in Williston in September 2020. Lawmakers in the House Committee on Ways and Means are deciding between two versions of the same...
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Key House committee opts to update Vermont’s school funding formula instead...
Rep. Janet Ancel, D-Calais, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, listens during a meeting at the Statehouse in Montpelier in July 2021. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger For weeks, the...
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House and Senate lawmakers approve deal on child tax credit
Rep. Janet Ancel, D-Calais, left, confers with Sen. Ann Cummings, D-Washington, at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday, May 11. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger House and Senate lawmakers have...
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House Ways and Means Chair Janet Ancel is not running for reelection
Rep. Janet Ancel, D-Calais, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, listens at the Statehouse in Montpelier in 2019. Ancel announced she is not running for reelection this year. File photo by...
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Your final Final Reading (for now)
Sen. Randy Brock, R-Franklin, Sen. Cheryl Hooker, D/P-Rutland, Sen. Alice Nitka, D-Windsor, and Sen. Chris Pearson, P/D-Chittenden, exit the Senate chamber to ceremonially inform Gov. Phil Scott that...
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More than half of Vermont House committee chairs will not return to the...
Clockwise from top left: Rep. Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham; Rep. Mary Hooper, D-Montpelier; Rep. Maxine Grad, D-Moretown; and Rep. Tim Briglin, D-Thetford. Photos by Lola Duffort/VTDigger, Glenn...
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A tax proposal could have saved Vermont business owners millions. Legislators...
Rep. Janet Ancel, D-Calais, discusses a bill at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Jan. 29, 2019. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Vermont Legislature went home having spent an unprecedented...
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Phil Scott signs $1,000 child tax credit into law
Gov. Phil Scott signed a tax cut package into law on Friday. The package includes a child tax credit. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Gov. Phil Scott signed a tax cut package into law Friday...
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Corporate tax reform bill, signed by Phil Scott, expected to benefit...
Rep. Janet Ancel, D-Calais, the outgoing chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, said corporations might look at the newly signed corporate tax reforms before moving to Vermont. Photo by Glenn...
View ArticleReps. Ancel & Kornheiser: Leaving money on the table for whom?
This commentary is by Rep. Janet Ancel, D-Calais, and Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, D-Brattleboro, chair and vice chair of the House Ways and Means Committee. According to a recent story, the Legislature...
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Here’s who won competitive primaries for the Vermont House on Tuesday
Voters cast their ballots at the Bennington firehouse polling place the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Photo by Tiffany Tan/VTDigger Updated at Thursday at 1:55 p.m. In a year of high legislative...
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Vermont cannabis growers hope for direct-to-consumer sales
Wyeth Shamp, owner of Lost Lake Cannabis in Georgia, uses a jeweler's loupe to check the trichomes on a cannabis bud for ripeness on a plant in Burlington in September. File photo by Glenn...
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