Earlier this week I joined the governor and a handful of legislators for the signing of H.620, the Access to Birth Control bill. It’s a law that expands birth control and family planning options for women and for men. When I wrote about the Access to Birth Control bill back in April, I didn’t foresee the onslaught on reproductive rights May would bring. Standing on the State House steps Monday, I had a flashback to 1992. That year I took a leave of absence from Senator Lea

Whether we call it affordable housing, student housing, workforce housing or senior housing, a warm dry place to call home is critically important to all of us. Vermont’s future depends on increasing the supply of affordable to all corners of the state. Businesses large and small, young couples hoping to start a family, budding entrepreneurs, people with disabilities and college students all need an expanding variety of housing alternatives. And of course the elderly who want

Our health care system has a drug problem. I’m referring to the skyrocketing cost of pharmaceuticals. While concerns about the cost of prescription drugs have been around for decades, the issue has reached a tipping point this year as price inflation has accelerated with no causal link to the costs pharmaceutical companies bear. Why are pharmaceutical companies increasing prices so fast? Because they can. There have been the extreme instances of hedge funds masquerading a