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Every year, lawmakers must pass a bill that sets the property tax rates necessary to pay for school budgets. For this week’s edition of the Capitol Recap, we explore how lawmakers in the House want to use this legislation to respond to double-digit property tax hikes.
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Roughly one in three school budgets failed in Vermont on Town Meeting Day this year. School districts across the state are now entering second and third voting rounds to get budgets approved by voters.
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Multiple bills aimed at modernizing Vermont’s signature land-use law have circulated around the Statehouse this year, drawing intense debate. Now, those bills have become one.
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Two young citizens of Odanak First Nation described what they call Indigenous identity theft, particularly in Vermont, at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The Abenaki Councils of Odanak and W8linak and the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador bought a billboard in Times Square to highlight the topic.
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The latest estimates project the average homestead tax bill to go up 15% while the average non-homestead bill will rise 18%. That’s not much lower than the 18.5% tax increases initially forecast.
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Vermont town removes unpermitted structures from defunct firearms training center while owner jailedAn environmental court judge ordered Daniel Banyai's arrest in December, finding him in contempt of court for not bringing the Slate Ridge property in Pawlet into compliance. Banyai was taken into custody last month.
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The bill had not received support from the two-thirds majority of the House and Senate that would have been required for a veto override.
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The House wants to set up another decade of major spending on the housing crisis — and taxes to go with it. The Senate and the governor would rather focus on regulatory changes.
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As House lawmakers take up the Climate Superfund Act, climate scientists urge them not to balk at the newness of attribution science.