Representing Dover, Jamaica, Somerset, Stratton and Wardsboro
The Consumer Assistance Program has received several scam reports that Vermonters are being contacted by a new robocall phone scam that claims that their credit card has been charged by Amazon. The automated call instructs people to call back to get a refund. Scammers then attempt to gain remote access to computers. Hang up the …
Continue reading Scam Alert from the #Vermont Attorney General’s Office – Amazon charge phone scam
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson
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Constitutional amendment, banning plastic bags and a major problem emerges in the education fund
Interesting issues in the ed finance/property tax in the last two weeks. First there is a growing need for funding for state placed students (students having to live in foster families) who are coming into the public school system with increased trauma and need - some of which is being driven by the opioid epidemic. …
Continue reading Ed financing and the accidentally-on-purpose gaps
Lead bill passes House, Green Up Day details, countdown to the end of session
Waiting period for firearms purchases bill
Vermont smoking age raised to 21 this week
Indigenous People Day and approving Montpelier's non-citizen voting
Pensions, population and fossil fuel infrastructure
Vermont State Representative Laura Sibilia 