FLOOD RECOVERY UPDATE: Important Deadlines for Federal Assistance

It is hard to believe that it has now been two months since this summer’s terrible flooding devastated communities across our state. As we continue the difficult and too often heartbreaking work of recovery and rebuilding, I wanted to share some good news with you, as well as some important updates.

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Let Us Support the Arts in Schools and Across Vermont

To my mind, and I think most Vermonters would agree, art is more than just entertainment. It is more than just a painting here, a performance there. Great art, in whatever form, can truly help us understand who we are as human beings, as a community, and as a society. Art can be a gateway to the soul and is absolutely essential as we work to create and sustain a more just and humane society.

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NEWS: Murray, Sanders, Clark, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Extend Vital Child Care Funding and Save Millions of Families’ Child Care Spots as Funding Cliff Looms

If pandemic-era child care stabilization funds are allowed to expire on September 30, approximately 3.2 million children could lose their child care spots, 232,000 child care workers’ jobs could be…

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