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Vermont's top journalists join moderator Mitch Wertlieb to delve into the most important news stories of the week. -
Vermont lawmakers are considering postponing or even eliminating some of their key spending priorities as they attempt to gird next year鈥檚 state budget against potentially drastic cuts in federal funding. -
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS. They say he can't. PBS chief Paula Kerger calls it "blatantly unlawful". -
The study, released Thursday, shows that while Vermont law enforcement agencies are doing fewer traffic stops since the COVID pandemic, there are continuing disparities in how Black and Hispanic drivers are policed. -
That鈥檚 as the state recognition law faces increasingly vocal criticism from the only two federally recognized Western Abenaki Nations, which say Vermont has legitimized people who haven鈥檛 adequately demonstrated their Abenaki heritage. -
Most of Lt. Gov. John Rodgers鈥� job is presiding over the Vermont Senate. But that's not all Rodgers has been up to. Last month he was the only Republican to speak at a protest on the Statehouse lawn against the Trump administration, and he's testified to lawmakers in favor of cannabis reform laws. -
The $2.4 million in terminated Vermont grants funded positions that focused on 鈥渆verything from housing placement services, food security, to job training, to after school programming鈥� and flood recovery, said Philip Kolling, who oversees AmeriCorps programs in the state. -
Simply taxing second homes at a higher rate is not so simple, in part because Vermont currently has no system for categorizing vacation homes. But lawmakers are trying to change that 鈥� with the House's sweeping education reform bill. -
Mark Carney wins Canada's election, seizing on strong public sentiment against President Trump. But it's still not clear if his Liberal Party has won an outright majority in Parliament. -
"I don't believe we can live in chaos for the next three and a half years," Vermont's Republican governor said on Vermont Edition.
