Vermont's 2023 legislative session ended on Friday with our passage of Vermont's FY2024 budget. The next regular session begins January 2024.

Stand inside a big, pitch-dark room and poke a pinhole in it. The sunlight from outside will form a life-size image on the wall of the view through the hole.

A veto override vote on S.5, The Affordable Heat Act, is scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday).

It hasn't been that long since we invented laws.

Please be sure to read to the challenge and offer at the end of this update...But first, a report-back on S.39.

The landmark 1970 law that governs land use and development in Vermont is called "Act 250" simply because it was the 250th bill passed into law that year.

Do you have any thoughts on the impending end of Vermont's COVID-era emergency housing program?

With two weeks left in the 2023 legislative session, here are some bills your Legislature has been trying to get planted.

Governor Scott previously asked the Legislature to put in such a "checkback" provision into the Clean Heat Standard. We did, and now still won't sign.

Your Vermont House of Representatives votes three different ways.

Here are a few updates at the end of the fourth-to-last week of this legislative session.

“Why would you have children?” is a question I hear way too often exchanged by our youth.

There is a lot of ceremony in the Legislature.

I've worked within organizations for my professional life, and often found them dysfunctional. One particular flavor of that dysfunction is the "org chart."

If you don't like today's newsletter, blame it on "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams. Adams was recently canceled, so he can take it.

What should we pay our legislators?

Although their commercial use ended in the U.S. in 1979, we will be reckoning with the legacy of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, for a long time.

The presence of airborne PCBs have led the Twin Valley Elementary School, in consultation with the Vermont Department of Health and the Agency of Education, to temporarily shut down use of the gym and library.

In House Corrections & Institutions, your Windham-6 State Representative heard testimony today and discussed S.14 - An act relating to a report on criminal justice-related investments and trends.

Happy April! Our first House session this month kicked off in good spirit with students from Windham Elementary School.