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• New plan for Vermont homelessness would largely end the use of motel rooms

  14-01-2026 23:39 via vtdigger.org
  Rep. Eric Maguire, R-Rutland City, listens to testimony in the House Human Services Committee at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday, Jan. 14. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.Lawmakers have a new plan to overhaul Vermont’s response to homelessness, an issue that has remained stubbornly persistent in recent years even as state leaders have thrown hundreds
  
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• Drought cost Vermont farmers $15.9M 

  14-01-2026 23:35 via vtdigger.org
  The preliminary results of a 2025 state survey show that last year’s drought cost Vermont farms more than $15.9 million.Most farmers said it was the worst drought they’d ever seen, according to the survey, which was conducted by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets and the Vermont Agriculture Recovery Task Force. The final survey is expected to be published by the end of January, according to the agency. Numbers are not expected to significantly change. (As of publica
  
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• Gov. Scott’s $75 million property tax buydown could become bargaining chip in budget talks

  14-01-2026 22:10 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Andrew Perchlik, D/P-Washington, left and Rep. Robin Scheu, D-Middlebury. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerMONTPELIER — Vermont Gov. Phil Scott wants to use the state’s annual midyear budget tuneup to set aside $75 million for property tax relief. But legislative leaders said they would rather hold on to that money, at least for the time being.“It’s just not appropriate to be doing it at this point in time,” said Rep. Robin Scheu, D-Middlebury, who chairs the b
  
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• Activists target ICE digital surveillance site in Williston

  14-01-2026 20:21 via vtdigger.org
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  Activists ramped up their objections to federal immigration enforcement this week by dropping a bright yellow banner at a Williston business park where a digital surveillance operation run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials is located.The banner, spread out across six windows of a building in the White Cap Business Park, read “ICE Violates Rights Here.” It was dropped on the night of Jan. 11 and removed by a cherry picker in the early m
  
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• Marv Greenberg: Fact-finding travel to Israel isn’t unethical

  14-01-2026 01:55 via vtdigger.org
  Marv Greenberg is a lay leader at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, a proud Zionist and a supporter of the State of Israel.Dear Editor,I am appalled and shocked that our Vermont pro-Palestinian groups are filing an ethics complaint and calling for the resignations of the five Vermont legislators who traveled to Israel on a much-needed fact-finding mission. 
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  These legislators were going to Israel, a strong U.S. ally and a democracy, to see what happened on October 7, 2023, and what has been
  
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• Signed, sealed, delayed: Montpelier Post Office struggles with long wait times — again

  14-01-2026 01:25 via vtdigger.org
  Tom McDonough spent 29 years working for the U.S. Postal Service, mainly as a postal clerk. So he’s very familiar with dealing with frustrated customers waiting for their packages.Customers like himself. “The point of view of the clerk up there, I understand,” he said. “I can see what they’re faced with.”McDonough has been waiting for nearly two weeks for his packages, which include medication, tax information and now-outdated Christmas cards. He can see
  
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• Final Reading: Christina Nolan, Vermont Supreme Court hopeful, explains why she brought a gun to court

  14-01-2026 00:46 via vtdigger.org
  Christina Nolan and Michael Drescher. Photos courtesy of the Office of Gov. Phil Scott“I’d like to take the opportunity to tell you a little bit about how the gun got in my bag,” Christina Nolan, a prospective Vermont Supreme Court justice and former top federal prosecutor in the state, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The committee was hearing from Gov. Phil Scott’s most recent two nominees to the Vermont Supreme Court, as their appointments require
  
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• Vermont sees increase in flu as cases around the country surge 

  14-01-2026 00:06 via vtdigger.org
  Flu is surging around the country, and Vermont is not immune to the national trend, though the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent dashboard for the disease identifies the state’s illness prevalence as lower than much of the U.S.In Vermont, about 20-25% of tests have come back positive this season, according to a state dashboard with data through Jan. 3.Statewide, nearly 8% of visits to a Vermont emergency room or urgent care were due to flu-like illness
  
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