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Gov. Phil Scott proclaimed Tuesday, the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, George Floyd Remembrance Day in Vermont, and asked people across the state to acknowledge systemic racism in order to work toward full equality for everyone.
In Burlington s City Hall Park, participants in a silent remembrance service knelt, laid with their cheeks against the ground, closed their eyes deep in thought, and even sobbed. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
The group spent 9 minutes and 29 seconds of silence reflecting on the murder of George Floyd, who spent that same amount of time one year ago dying under a police officer s knee in Minneapolis.
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MONTPELIER â The Vermont Senate joined the House in passing a resolution apologizing for its role in the eugenics movement, in which so-called âdelinquentsâ and âdefectivesâ were institutionalized or sterilized. The policies targeted French Canadians, French-speaking indigenous Canadians, indigenous peoples and people of color, and disproportionately affected women.
The Senate, rather than concur with the House version of the resolution, replaced it with a âstrike-allâ amendment and its own wording â varying slightly from the House text, but hitting all the same salient points.
Like the House version, which passed 146-0 on March 31, the Senate resolution, reported by Sen. Brian Collamore, R-Rutland, sums up the history of the eugenics movement, and the Legislatureâs active role in promoting it in the early 20th century, up to and including the passage of a sterilization law in 1931.
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MONTPELIERÂ â Sen. Randy Brock was answering a question Tuesday morning about the Senate s version of H. 360, a bill setting the framework for building out universal high-speed broadband across Vermont, when his Zoom feed suddenly gave out and he disappeared from the Senate s virtual ranks. We have a broadband issue right here, right now, Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, the ex-officio Senate President, said.Â
Brock, R-Franklin, returned in plenty of time for the Senate to unanimously pass the bill, which proposes spending millions in federal aid to assure universal access to high-speed broadband for education, health, business and telecommuting. A formal third reading vote is set for Wednesday. Â