This week on Vermont This Week, news from the Statehouse regarding the Senate's passage of the Budget Adjustment Act and what we know about the newly negotiated $80/night hotel-motel rate, and how it might impact those utilizing the program.
Also: conversations about conservation, discussing some of the concerns surrounding the cost of the Renewable Energy Standard bill as it makes its way through the Legislature, a bill to ban pesticides toxic to bees taking a key step forward, and lawmakers considering a bill to diversify voices on the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board.
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This week’s panel
- Cat Viglienzoni (Moderator), WCAX
- Abagael Giles Vermont Public
- Stephen Biddix, NBC5
- Kevin McCallum, Seven Days
Dive deeper
- What will Vermont’s renewable energy ambitions cost?(WCAX)
- Bill to ban pesticides toxic to bees takes a key step forward in the Vermont House(Vermont Public)
- Vermont lawmakers contemplate decriminalizing a popular psychedelic (NBC)
- Proposed homeless hotel rate decrease threatens to put families out on the street (NBC5)
- Proposed Vermont Constitutional amendment dealing with sheriffs and State's Attorney's hits roadblock (Vermont Business Magazine)
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