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Buying down property taxes with one-time money comes with the risk of creating a spike the following cycle. But Gov. Phil Scott has indicated he'll pressure Democrats to use even more one-time cash to lower next year's property taxes.

One said Hooper massaged her in a committee room. Another claimed he pulled her in for a kiss at an election night party. A third said he grabbed her and began dancing with her in the Statehouse cafeteria.

With a key legislative deadline looming, lawmakers raced to get key policy bills out of committees this week.

House Speaker Jill Krowinski announced Hooper’s exit from the House Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs early Friday morning in an email to House lawmakers. Hooper told Vermont Public he has since informed Krowinski of plans to resign from office on Monday.

The settlement follows a two-year long investigation that began when the attorney general's office received a complaint about the nonprofit's oversight of Vermonters with developmental disabilities who pose serious safety risks.

Members of the Green Mountain Care Board are at work on guidance that would tell hospitals to charge private insurers 1% less in 2027 than they are this year.

The GOP leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to Gov. Phil Scott earlier this week to demand a raft of information about Vermont’s efforts to protect its Medicaid program from fraud, waste and abuse.

For the first time since 2020, Vermont’s largest insurer did not lose money.

Private equity has established a much more significant footprint in Vermont's health care landscape than was previously widely known. That’s injected new urgency into the regulatory conversation in Montpelier — but also complicated it.

Hank Poitras’ ascendancy in conservative politics is raising questions about who gains power in a Vermont Republican Party that says it is trying to distance itself from the extremists within its ranks.