Protecting our highway workers
Tristan Roberts Tristan Roberts

Protecting our highway workers

No one likes to be watched or ticketed by anyone, let alone cameras. But with this tool available and proven, is it responsible to our essential highway workers to do nothing?

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Our schools, in six minutes (today's testimony)
Tristan Roberts Tristan Roberts

Our schools, in six minutes (today's testimony)

With a third of Vermont school budgets voted down this March, and some of them now voted down multiple times, voters across Vermont are expressing alarm about tax hikes around 20% in some districts. There's a narrative out there that those voters are "sending Montpelier a message."

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"The way that they profit is to deny care"
Tristan Roberts Tristan Roberts

"The way that they profit is to deny care"

In this very hectic time, I want to share something special that happened last week. I voted "Yes" on an important bill, passed in time to cross over to the Senate, to help Vermonters get the medical care they need in a timely way.

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Rep. Roberts Town Meeting Report
Tristan Roberts Tristan Roberts

Rep. Roberts Town Meeting Report

Here's a report about what I've been working on. Prefer a hard copy? I'll have a handout version of this tomorrow, and I'm also happy to mail you one, anywhere on Earth or low-Earth orbit.

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inflation hits the State budget
Tristan Roberts Tristan Roberts

inflation hits the State budget

Today's newsletter is three-in-one. First Town Meeting logistics, then a report from Montpelier, and I'll wrap up with a little fun from the Senate side of the Legislature.

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Where’s the vision in Phil Scott’s 2025 budget?
Tristan Roberts Tristan Roberts

Where’s the vision in Phil Scott’s 2025 budget?

Throw Scott a big problem, like COVID. We’re all clear on the mission. He takes charge. The public votes him victory laps. Throw Scott the ten thousand more mundane, intractable problems throughout his own administration’s delivery of services? It’s the Legislature and the public getting the run-around.

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Muphry's Law Meets Montpliers
Tristan Roberts Tristan Roberts

Muphry's Law Meets Montpliers

Here are three issues before the Vermont Legislature today in which, when it comes to fixing past laws, there is reason to wonder if we even know which way is up.

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Becky’s bill for beagle biscuits
Tristan Roberts Tristan Roberts

Becky’s bill for beagle biscuits

One bill I'm proud to co-sponsor this year to address that is H.709: ​An act relating to creating the Office of Entrepreneurship and other programs pertaining to entrepreneurs.

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