Advocates and lawmakers are hoping the House version of an earned sick-time bill will sway skeptics and tip the scales in their favor.

When Tara Scribner is sick, she can take the day off and not worry about it affecting her income.

Read the op-ed published in the Rutland Herald

On April 8, 2010, the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus and Rutland Herald newspapers ran Voices’ critique of the controversial Challenges for Change legislation regarding human services.

This isn’t your average tax protest: A group of Vermonters is urging the state to raise taxes as a way to save state programs now on the chopping block.

As the House Appropriations Committee dealt with its version of the state budget Monday, members of the Save Our State Coalition took to sidewalks and front steps across Vermont, urging lawmakers to oppose cuts to health care and human services proposed by the Douglas Administration.