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• How Donald Trump reshaped Vermont in just 1 year

  31-01-2026 12:55 via vtdigger.org
  Clockwise from top left: Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in January 2025; Vermonter and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi is released from federal detainment in Burlington in April 2025; Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark has filed more than 40 lawsuits against the Trump administration over the past year; and protests against the Immigration Customs and Enforcement Department have spread across the state, contin
  
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• Kesha Ram Hinsdale: The tax Vermonters have never heard of

  31-01-2026 04:11 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale, D-Vt., the majority leader of the Vermont Senate, representing Chittenden-Southeast.Vermont is in the middle of a deep affordability crisis, and most people assume the solutions must be complicated, slow, or politically impossible. But one of the most effective tools we have is already on the books, quietly working — and generating more revenue than expected. I know because I wrote the law.It’s a vacancy tax, embedded today in
  
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• Community rallies for longtime Somali taxi driver detained by ICE

  31-01-2026 01:39 via vtdigger.org
  Hussien Noor Hussien with his wife Runbila Aden. Photo courtesy of Runbila AdenBurlington-area community members plan to rally next week to support a longtime Somali resident who was detained by federal immigration officers at the airport on New Year’s Day.Hussien Noor Hussien, 63, has been held at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans since. The rally coincides with his next scheduled hearing at U.S. District Court in Burlington at 11 a.m. Wednesday.Hussien’s frie
  
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• A new bill in Vermont would expand school choice for pre-K students in Essex County

  31-01-2026 00:30 via vtdigger.org
  Democratic Majority Leader Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale, D-Chittenden Southeast, listens to debate at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Feb. 25, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerParents in the Northeast Kingdom’s Essex County — the most rural county in the state — have few options when it comes to finding a pre-K program for their children. At least, one this side of the Connecticut River.But lawmakers and local school officials hope to change that.S.214, a bill introduced b
  
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