Adiah Gholston

This week we bring you a series of stories from our public radio partners around New England exploring how the region’s flora, fauna and fungi are living with climate change. Plus lawmakers are trying to make a contingency plan in case the only Vermont-based health insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, goes under. And Vermont’s unemployment rate holds steady, a new soil testing center for farmers opens at UVM, and where to watch trout travel upstream.

In this week’s edition of the Capitol recap, we examine a bill that would fundamentally overhaul Vermont's response to homelessness and provide a potential off-ramp to the mass-use of motel rooms as shelter.

In the next installment of our recurring series on class in Vermont, we meet Tom Burdick and hear about the challenges of breaking into higher education, and raising children in a different class from the one he grew up in. Plus, Canada has introduced a relief period for businesses from its counter-tariffs on some U.S. imports.

In our recurring series on class in Vermont we meet Kathy Quimby Johnson, who grew up in East Peacham Vermont in the 60s and 70s, when it was mostly farmers and summer people. Plus, Vermont’s tourism industry is seeing mounting evidence that Canadian visitors are canceling travel to the United States.Quebec's government is reconsidering whether to support large national energy projects, in light of President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs and threaten Canadian sovereignty. And a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security faces a major workforce reduction in the coming weeks.

We examine the House floor debate that preceded a major overhaul of how education is paid for and governed in Vermont.

North Country Public Radio's Emily Russell breaks down President Trump's decision to pull Rep. Stefanik as his nominee for the U.N. ambassadorship because of the slim GOP majority in the House. Stefanik's confirmation hearing would have been this week.

Though reforming how public schools are governed has been a major priority at the Statehouse this session, disagreements between the House and Senate could hold back comprehensive change.

Lawmakers in Montpelier are debating whether to use a big pool of one-time money to bring down property taxes next year, which some fear could set taxpayers up for a financial cliff the year after.

Gov. Phil Scott makes his first veto of the new legislative session over funding for discretionary spending, objecting to adjustment bills dealing with affordable housing and the state’s motel voucher program for homeless Vermonters.

The town of Richmond recently backed out of its plans to hire the former Hinesburg police chief after officials raised concerns about his actions in the days leading up to his departure.