VPR’s Jane Lindholm talks with Governor Jim Douglas about the outcomes of the legislative session and how he and the Democratic leadership at the Statehouse will work together going forward.
Political analyst Eric Davis, Secretary Neale Lunderville and Senator Susan Bartlett join VPR’s Jane Lindholm to discuss the ramifications of yesterday’s override of Governor Jim Douglas’s budget veto.
About three dozen first-time lawmakers served in the Legislature this winter. On the next Vermont Edition, we invite them to reflect their satisfactions, disappointments and how they felt they served their constituents. Also, an update on a decades-old superfund site in Burlington.
House and Senate leaders reached agreement on a transportation
bill for next year that dramatically increases spending on paving and road and
bridge repair projects.
Lawmakers
defend the health consulting contract. But the Douglas administration says the Legislature does not always follow the same
competitive bid rules required of the rest of state government.
Bob Kinzel talks with some of the top political reporters about the key issues facing lawmakers in the remaining months of the legislative session. Join the conversation with VPR’s Ross Sneyd and John
Dillon, and Kristin Carlson, Montpelier bureau chief of WCAX-TV.