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• Vermont House passes tax credit bill after compromise on military pensions

  07-05-2025 22:00 via vtdigger.org
  
  Rep. Bill Canfield, R-Fair Haven, left, and Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, D-Brattleboro, vice chair and chair respectively of the House Ways and Means Committee, confer during a committee meeting at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Jan. 25, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerAfter an influx of support in both chambers, the House passed a bipartisan tax credit package on Wednesday featuring a long-debated expansion of the state’s military pension tax exemption. The proposal, S.51, incl
  
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• Jance Breanda

  07-05-2025 20:55 via vtdigger.org
  
  Born Dec. 2, 1961Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaDied Nov. 18, 2024Winooski, VermontDetails of services May 17, 2025Winooski, VermontPlease contact family for specific event details.Jance “Bre” grew up in Philadelphia, PA before he later joined the US navy and explored and resided in various states around the country. He eventually moved to Vermont where he settled. Bre was a kind, generous, funny man who always had an infectious smile and guidance to offer. He was always inviting and eage
  
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• Financial struggles have pushed Vermont’s largest health insurer to the brink

  07-05-2025 19:34 via vtdigger.org
  
  Don George, president and CEO of BlueCross BlueShield Vermont, listens during a roundtable on health care costs hosted by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, in Burlington on Friday, May 31, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
  Over the past several months, Vermont lawmakers and state officials have been preoccupied with the fate of the state’s largest health insurance company. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, the Vermont-based member of the nationwide health insurance organizatio
  
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• Federal appeals court orders Trump administration to transfer Rümeysa Öztürk to Vermont

  07-05-2025 18:11 via vtdigger.org
  
  Several hundred demonstrators gather outside U.S. District Court in Burlington on Monday, April 14, 2025, to demand the release of Rumeysa Ozturk. Ozturk, a graduate student at Tufts University from Turkey, was detained after co-authoring an op-ed on the Israel-Hamas war. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUpdated at 3:53 p.m.A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to comply with a lower court’s ruling in Vermont last month to transfer Rü
  
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• Federal appeals court orders Trump administration to comply with Vermont judge’s ruling in Öztürk case

  07-05-2025 18:11 via vtdigger.org
  
  A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to comply with a lower court’s ruling in Vermont last month to transfer Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish graduate student, to federal immigration custody in the state.The administration must move Öztürk from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana — where she’s largely been held since she was arrested by armed and masked federal agents in
  
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• Dana Kaplan: It isn’t ‘rhetoric.’ It’s real.

  07-05-2025 15:29 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Dana Kaplan, executive director of Outright Vermont.Gov. Phil Scott’s recent comments brushing off concerns about federal overreach and civil rights rollbacks as mere “rhetoric” are more than disappointing — they’re dangerous.At a time when LGBTQ+ youth, immigrants, people living with disabilities and BIPOC folks are under increasing attack here and across the country, Vermonters are looking to leaders for courage and clarity. Instead, we recei
  
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• VTDigger makes key hires and promotions

  07-05-2025 14:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  VTDigger Deputy Managing Editor Liana Teixeira. Photo courtesy of Liana TeixeiraVTDigger has hired experienced journalist Liana Teixeira as deputy managing editor to help guide the newsroom’s award-winning coverage across Vermont.Teixeira will join VTDigger on May 19 and work alongside Managing Editor Neal Goswami to help run the day-to-day operations of the 20-plus newsroom staff.  She has most recently worked as an editor and recruiter in Virginia. She has previously worked for Busi
  
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• Vermonters react to the Trump administration’s guidance for increased logging on national forests

  07-05-2025 13:14 via vtdigger.org
  
  Amid a wave of directives from the administration of President Donald Trump authorizing increased logging on the nation’s forests, Vermonters are assessing what impacts these actions could have on the state’s environment and economy. On March 1, the Trump administration issued an executive order to expand timber harvesting, stating that federal policies have limited the domestic timber supply and have resulted in the U.S. relying on international imports of lumber.As part of the
  
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• Rep. Brian Cina: From incarceration to community care — reinvest in health, justice and the common good

  07-05-2025 12:27 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Rep. Brian Cina, P/D-Burlington, a clinical social worker who has a full-time private outpatient therapy practice and works part time as a crisis clinician. They have served as a member of the House Health Care Committee since 2017 and are currently an Opioid Policy Fellow with the National Conference of State Legislatures.State-sanctioned punishment and violence perpetuate harm under the guise of accountability, justice, and public safety. Since 2017, Gov. Phil Scott
  
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• Final Reading: A year into Vermont’s wake boat regulations, Senate Natural Resources revisits the rules 

  07-05-2025 00:51 via vtdigger.org
  
  Photo via Adobe StockIf the tulips lining the walkway to the Statehouse are any indication, summer is on its way, and with it, a season of boating on Vermont’s lakes and ponds.That fast-approaching season is not lost on advocates for wake boat-free lakes. Alongside representatives from the Department of Environmental Conservation, they spent Tuesday morning in the Senate Natural Resources Committee discussing the presence of the contested craft in Vermont’s lakes.Wake boats, it&rsquo
  
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• ‘We have some peace’: South Royalton man sentenced to life in prison for wife’s 2018 murder

  07-05-2025 00:14 via vtdigger.org
  
  Frank Sanville, center, is led into the courtroom to receive his sentence during a hearing at the Windsor County Courthouse in Woodstock on Monday, May 5. Sanville, who pleaded guilty to murdering his wife Wanda while out on furlough from a domestic assault conviction in 2018, was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison. Photo by Alex Driehaus/Valley NewsThis story by John Lippman was first published by the Valley News on May 6.WOODSTOCK — More than seven years after he fatally shot his wi
  
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• Advocates denounce lawmakers’ decision to keep motel program limits 

  07-05-2025 00:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  Jen Armbrister, the hotel project manager for Good Samaritan Haven, speaks at a Statehouse gathering of service providers and unhoused Vermonters on May 6. Jessica Russell stands to her right. Photo by Carly Berlin/VTDigger and Vermont PublicThis story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.Advocates for unhoused Vermonters are calling on lawmakers to remove restrictions on the state’s motel voucher program i
  
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