Two years after the reform law passed, and now that maps are being drafted, a growing chorus of critics asks whether the law’s promise will be realized.

The Green Mountain State has long prioritized consumer protection and quality care in its health policy. That’s resulted in much better, more comprehensive coverage — if you can afford the exorbitant insurance premiums.

Three weeks into a legislative session that’s supposed to produce one of the most consequential school-governance overhauls in state history, lawmakers are knee-deep in the “inherent contradictions” that make meaningful reform so elusive.

Lawmakers and the governor will experience a sobering comedown from the fastest period of revenue growth in Vermont’s history.

Members of a task force created to draw new school district maps say forced mergers would unleash disruption and dislocation in an education system that isn’t yet prepared for that level of transformation.

House and Senate negotiators tasked with finding a path on education reform didn't talk about funding, governance or taxes this week. They fought over scheduling.

Democratic lawmakers have spent the last five years laying the groundwork for the most aggressive emissions-reduction policies Vermont has ever seen, but a political sea change after the November election has brought that work to a “standstill,” according to legislators and climate advocates.

“I can’t ever remember feeling as bad about a vote as I do on this one,” Sen. Ann Cummings, the Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee, told her colleagues after voting to advance the education reform bill Thursday. “But it will move us forward.”

Here’s a look at the top changes this year’s eclectic housing package would make — including where lawmakers are still debating the details and where Gov. Phil Scott’s administration stands.

Vermont lawmakers are considering postponing or even eliminating some of their key spending priorities as they attempt to gird next year’s state budget against potentially drastic cuts in federal funding.