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In a warming world, snow can be a little harder to come by. But this year, the National Weather Service says Vermont will have a white Christmas.

This post will be updated. Republican John Rodgers was elected lieutenant governor in a secret ballot by a joint assembly of the Vermont Legislature on Thursday.

Thursday’s election was an unusual but not unprecedented event. Rodgers beat Zuckerman in the November elections, but because neither won more than 50% of the vote, the state Constitution required lawmakers to name a winner.

But in the broad strokes, Scott teased a plan that would overhaul Vermont's byzantine school governance structure and see the state assume a direct role in deciding how much districts spend.

Gov. Phil Scott delivered his fifth inaugural address on Thursday. His speech came after a sweeping change election in which voters threw dozens of

The Department for Children and Families illegally conspired with private service providers to surveil a pregnant woman, attempt to coerce her into

Obama-era rules, which Trump kept in place during his first administration, currently prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement from making arrests at so-called “sensitive locations,” including schools, churches and hospitals. But Trump reportedly wants to rescind that policy.

Vermont would go from having more than 100 school districts to five and see the state government assume a much more direct role in deciding how much schools spend, which schools close, and what is taught, under a proposal released by Gov. Phil Scott's administration Wednesday.

The far-reaching proposal would consolidate decisions about education in Vermont in the hands of state government and five large regional school boards.

Money. School choice. Local control. The governor's plan wades into treacherous political waters.