This commentary is by Jack Hoffman. He is senior analyst at Public Assets Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization based in Montpelier.

Small towns like Reading are banding together to try to grow their way out of the state’s growing demographic crisis.

Unsustainable finances are impacting hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices alike, despite Vermont’s high health care costs ...

If and when the governor and Legislature agree on something they call “transformational educational reform,” it’s unlikely to be what most people expected or wanted. Vermonters won’t see the property ...

However, the outcome leaves the session’s highest-profile work unfinished. Following an election where property tax rates ...

Vermont’s leaders are continuing to work toward a deal on education reform, postponing its scheduled adjournment.

Following two successive legislative sessions and an interim task force study, lawmakers at the State House in Montpelier are punting comprehensive educatio ...

H. 454 proposes a massive transfer of power. If it is enacted, taxpayers will no longer get to vote on their school budgets. Rather than the checks and balances between local and state power, school ...

To enable ongoing negotiations, House and Senate leaders extended the session and will reconvene legislators on June 16. Our ...

Most Vermonters agree our state is facing an affordability crisis, yet few suggest the solution is to raise taxes on low and ...

Most Vermonters agree that our state is facing an affordability crisis, yet few suggest the solution is to raise taxes on low and middle-income Vermonters.

Hopes for a deal late Friday failed to materialize, but a new deadline has been set for the Veto Session, which is slated for ...