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Nearly 40 Vermont musicians submitted their videos to NPR's Tiny Desk Contest. Vermont Public chatted with a few about the original songs they chose and their video ideas. (And we asked them to sit at colleague Eric Ford's tiny — and meticulously decorated — desk and pose for photos.)
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Here’s a look at the top changes this year’s eclectic housing package would make — including where lawmakers are still debating the details and where Gov. Phil Scott’s administration stands. -
Recent legal challenges to Vermont's climate superfund law could go all the way to the Supreme Court — a process legal scholars say could take five years to a decade. -
President Trump has repeatedly described the U.S.-Canada border as an "artificially drawn line." But experts say just because it was man-made doesn't mean it's not legitimate. -
Judge William Sessions made the order for Öztürk's release from the bench, saying he found serious claims "of both due process and first amendment violations" in her arrest in Somerville in March. -
Vermont is the first state in New England to receive "unaffected" status for its milk supply from the bird flu virus. -
Game developer and Burlington resident Steven Margolin worked as the lead designer on Ivy Road's Wanderstop, the independent studio's first video game. -
If the two sides don’t settle before next Wednesday, it would be the first teachers’ strike in Vermont in nearly a decade. Burlington teachers went on strike for four days in 2017. -
The Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund aims to raise $1 million for the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project, a Burlington-based nonprofit that has represented more than 300 people in immigration proceedings over the past year. -
Made HereThe Made Here season finale features two films focused on two rural Vermont towns grappling with the effects of major flooding. -
Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts said farmers across the state are concerned about federal immigration enforcement after border agents arrested eight migrant farmworkers last month in northwestern Vermont. -
Buying down the rate, as this use of one-time money is called, is generally considered bad policy — on both sides of the aisle — because it risks creating a tax spike in the following year. But lawmakers say voters sent them a clear message in November: tax relief, now. -
Economic officials and immigrant advocates are urging lawmakers to consider bolstering supports for the 30,000 foreign-born Vermonters that make up a growing share of the state’s workforce.
