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• Scott administration: Expect tighter state budget to make room for tax cuts

  17-09-2026 23:48 via vtdigger.org
  
  Commissioner of Finance and Management Adam Greshin speaks as a House and Senate budget conference committee discusses the budget bill at the Statehouse in Montpelier in 2023. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerGov. Phil Scott is planning to propose a state budget that features little new spending if he gets reelected in November, one of his top deputies told a panel of Vermont House and Senate leaders Wednesday.That’s in part because the governor also plans to propose new — but as
  
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• The challenge for Vermont hospitals: keep costs low, care accessible and their doors open

  17-09-2026 23:37 via vtdigger.org
  
  Springfield Hospital in Springfield in June 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe state’s most powerful healthcare regulator thinks Vermont’s 14 hospitals can keep costs low, provide care and find financial sustainability. Not all the hospitals agree.In budget orders handed down Monday, the Green Mountain Care Board built on its efforts last year to shrink hospital budgets.This year, the independent state regulator focused on not only reducing hospital revenue, but how much
  
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• The challenge for Vermont hospitals: Keep costs low, care accessible and their doors open.

  17-09-2026 23:37 via vtdigger.org
  
  Springfield Hospital in Springfield in June 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe state’s most powerful healthcare regulator thinks Vermont’s 14 hospitals can keep costs low, provide care and find financial sustainability. Not all the hospitals agree.In budget orders handed down Monday, the Green Mountain Care Board built on its efforts last year to shrink hospital budgets.This year, the independent state regulator focused on not only reducing hospital revenue, but how much
  
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• Feds’ lawsuit demanding Vermont voter data tossed by federal judge

  17-09-2026 23:19 via vtdigger.org
  
  Secretary of State Sarah Copeland-Hanzas speaks during a press conference at the Statehouse in Montpelier in June 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.Vermont does not have to provide sensitive voter registration data to the Trump administration, a federal judge ruled Thursday, tossing a lawsuit filed over the issue by the U.S. Department of Justice against Sarah Copeland Hanzas, Vermont’s secretary of
  
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• Southern Vermont healthcare provider to pay more than $390,000 over allegations it mishandled Medicaid funds

  17-09-2026 22:21 via vtdigger.org
  
  Health Care & Rehabilitation Services Headquarters in Springfield. Courtesy photo.A nonprofit that provides mental health, substance use and developmental disability-related services in Windham and Windsor counties will pay the state more than $390,000 to settle claims that the organization kept Medicaid funds that it should have returned to the state, the attorney general’s office said. Health Care & Rehabilitation Services of Southeastern Vermont, which is based in Springfi
  
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• I’m a former second-home owner. We should tax second homes higher. 

  17-09-2026 21:03 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Alden Wicker, a homeowner, journalist and author who lives in Windham.In 2014, I bought an income-restricted co-op in Brooklyn for $250,000. The market price for that apartment would have been around $650,000, but it was under New York City’s Housing Development Fund Corporation, a low-income housing cooperative with rules to prevent these units from becoming investments instead of homes. If your income is below the neighborhood’s median and it will be your pri
  
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• Stop taxing Vermonters out of their own homes

  17-09-2026 20:58 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,A real solution to the property tax problem is to abolish property taxes on homestead property. Tax sales of homestead property should also be banned. The lost revenue could be made up in other ways that are less impactful on most residents. State income tax could make up a large share of the revenue, with a bigger increase for high earners. Nonhomestead property would need to be classed under some new categories.Property with structures on it should be divided into suitable for hab
  
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• All gifts matched in final stretch of VTDigger Fall Member Drive

  17-09-2026 15:00 via vtdigger.org
  
  VTDigger reporter Ethan Weinstein at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Monday, June 16, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerDear Reader,There are only a few days left in our Fall Member Drive. Right now, every gift is being matched dollar for dollar. Will you make a gift that will go twice as far before Saturday at midnight?
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• ‘Go stop them now,’ Burlington man says a voice told him before shooting three Palestinian students, recording reveals in trial

  17-09-2026 01:36 via vtdigger.org
  
  Jason Eaton appears during his trial in Chittenden Superior criminal court in Burlington on Monday, September 14, 2026. Eaton is accused of shooting three Palestinian students in November of 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON – Jurors heard from Jason Eaton saying that he was acting under the direction of  voices he was hearing through his FM radio from CIA and government intelligence agencies before authorities allege he opened fire and injured three Palestinian student
  
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• ‘Go stop them now,’ Burlington man says a voice told him before shooting 3 Palestinian students, recording reveals in trial

  17-09-2026 01:36 via vtdigger.org
  
  Jason Eaton appears during his trial in Chittenden Superior criminal court in Burlington on Monday, September 14, 2026. Eaton is accused of shooting three Palestinian students in November of 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON – Jurors heard from Jason Eaton saying that he was acting under the direction of  voices he was hearing through his FM radio from CIA and government intelligence agencies before authorities allege he opened fire and injured three Palestinian student
  
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• Cold shoulder: Brattleboro won’t be welcoming ICE

  17-09-2026 01:11 via vtdigger.org
  
  A couple hundred people march from Plaza Park to the Wells Fountain in Brattleboro during a locally organized No Kings march on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. Photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro ReformerThis story by Chris Mays was first published in the Brattleboro Reformer on Sept. 15, 2026.BRATTLEBORO — Local police aren’t planning to work with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers if they come to town. At a special selectboard meeting Monday, Brattleboro Police
  
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• Barre schools eye cuts to sports and other activities after budget fails on third attempt

  17-09-2026 00:56 via vtdigger.org
  
  Signs advocating for and against the Barre school district’s budget stand outside the Barre Town Middle and Elementary School on Sept. 15, 2026. Photo by Charlotte Oliver/VTDiggerBARRE — Board members in the Barre Unified Union School District will look at making cuts to winter sports, school transportation and extracurricular activities after voters rejected the district’s annual budget for the third time Tuesday. “It’s definitely a heartbreaking result becau
  
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