Governor Peter Shumlin is traveling to Miami Wednesday in an
effort to attract investors for a massive economic development project in the Northeast Kingdom.
Governor Peter Shumlin has
unveiled his plan to boost state spending next year by 3.4 percent without raising
any broad based taxes. But the budget proposal does rely on roughly $60 million
in new revenue from a variety of other sources.
The Vermont House has given final approval to
a mid-fiscal-year budget adjustment that takes savings from Medicaid and uses
the money to address other growing demands in human services.
Many Vermont lawmakers say gun control
legislation would be best handled at the federal level. But House Speaker Shap
Smith says
if a bill is debated in Montpelier, it needs to emerge first
from the Senate.
Senator Patrick Leahy says he’s hopeful that Congress
will pass a comprehensive package of gun control restrictions including ban the
sale of semi automatic assault weapons, closing the gun show loophole for background
checks and limiting the capacity of gun magazines.
The
state has signed an agreement with a central Vermont
developer to build the first privately run rest area on Interstate 89. At
a signing ceremony in Randolph on Wednesday, Gov. Peter Shumlin said the
new center will save the expense of replacing and
maintaining an aging state-run rest area nearby.
There’s growing opposition at
the Statehouse over Governor Peter Shumlin’s plan to take $17 million from
the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit program to finance an increase in child
care subsidies.
Gov. Peter Shumlin’s administration is asking
for a bit more time to report its ideas for paying for an ambitious overhaul of
the state’s health care system.