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The low-income Vermonters who are about to lose their government-subsidized motel rooms are making a last-ditch appeal to lawmakers to extend the emergency housing program.

Advocates are warning of a “potential catastrophe� as the state prepares to wind down a motel housing program that will result in the displacement of more than 2,000 Vermonters living in poverty.

From housing and child care to climate action and mental health, lawmakers will face tough spending decisions as federal coronavirus relief aid begins to dry up.

Incoming Senate President Pro Tem Phil Baruth and House Speaker Jill Krowinski say ideological diversity among Democratic lawmakers will require the House and Senate to legislate by consensus.

A push by the State Board of Education to expand the special-education obligations of independent schools across Vermont has earned it some new enemies in�