In 2011, the Vermont legislature passed and Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a state-wide, single-payer system that was to start in 2017. By 2014, however, fiscal estimates showed the state budget would ...

With some of Vermont's iconic covered bridges washed away, 250 roads closed and a fatality, Governor Peter Shumlin said the damage brought by Hurricane Irene is the worst in 75 years.