The Legislature executed a major pass-through of federal $$ on Friday, June 26 - $577 million, almost half of the $1.25 billion CARES Act allocation. It will return August 25 with (it hopes) a better understanding of how to spend the remaining $250 million, and eliminate the estimated $420 million budget deficit.

The Senate passed a bill creating a regulatory control of carbon emissions in Vermont. But it withdrew the $1 million funding approved by the House. If the House and Senate can reconcile their differences, will the governor approve it?

Political reporters Xander Landen and Kit Norton, report on what to expect as the Legislature nears adjournment - at least until August.

As the Legislature prepares to adjourn this week and return in August, the last big job is passing the three-month budget. Gov. Scott and the Legislature can’t agree on how quickly to dispense the $1.25 billion in federal recovery money, and who should get it.

An attempt to pass an Act 250 revision bill that makes it harder to build out in the country but easier to build in the city has run into procedural opposition as the Senate tries to wrap up business this week before adjourning until August.

Before it adjourns this week, the Vermont Legislature is poised to make some of the policing changes requested by police brutality protesters. But the most controversial ones - such as use-of-force - will have to wait for until August, at least.

For once the Vermont Legislature has the money to deliver internet and cell phone coverage to the state’s underserved rural areas. Alas, it doesn’t have the time.

For years, participants in Act 250 have complained about its user-unfriendliness and lack of transparency. Now that senators are reviewing changes in the bill itself, the same complaints are being heard.

A ‘Juneteenth’ resolution prepared by a Democratic lawmaker for consideration by the Vermont House House of Representatives today condemns tweets by Pres. Donald Trump as “racist” and “inflammatory.”

The Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee is questioning whether this year it can complete a thorough review of the long, complex House bill revising Act 250.