BRATTLEBORO-At a time of high turnover at the Legislature, including three retirements in Windham County, Emilie Kornheiser 's experience and seniority are important to us locally and to the state as a whole. However, she is facing a challenge in the Democratic primary.
In the most recent biennium, Emilie served as chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which works on tax policy. She displayed bold progressive vision focused on solving some of Vermont's most intractable problems.
During the most recent session, her committee offered H.829, a bill to raise funds to build housing in Vermont, using a tax on the 1% of Vermonters with annual personal income over $500,000.
Other bills that did not pass in the Senate this spring would have raised the corporate income tax to expand Vermont Medicaid coverage for young adults, those who are pregnant, and older Vermonters, and to fund a temporary increase in staff for the state courts, which have been badly backlogged since the pandemic. I hope these bills are reintroduced.
Regarding your story on the loss of utilities in the recent storm, I noted a similar problem on May 27, 2022 and I wrote to the Public Service Department and our legislators about it. “Today, southern Vermont suffered what seems to have been about an 18-hour internet outage for...
I enjoyed very much the article about COVID prevention in elder-care institutions. However, I think you missed a great opportunity to acknowledge the difference between nursing homes and assisted-living homes.This is a very important distinction, but the article uses the terms “nursing home” and “assisted living” seemingly interchangeably. These...