When asked specifically about whether or not California should make abortion on demand an unrestricted right throughout all nine months of pregnancy, even a solid majority of Californians don’t support this.
“I’ll repeat what I said when I called you a few months back when you were considering joining the race. We should use this as an opportunity to show Vermonters we can rise above the national fray and run only on our respective merits.”
The communities will be receiving $5.8 million from the organization’s State Economic and Infrastructure Development program, U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders announced.
“We have got to do more. At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, education, from pre-school through graduate school, must be a fundamental right for all, not a privilege for the wealthy few.”
Biden’s student loan “cancellation” scheme is impolitic, unfair, expensive and irresponsible. The price tag will be about a half trillion dollars. Most of that money will go to upper income households. Who will pay for it? It will cost the average taxpayer over $2,000.
Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos issued a reminder that all Vermont voters will be mailed a ballot for the November 8 General Election, and encouraged voters to update or confirm their voter registration information by August 31.
About 20 state constitutions have exception clauses that allow either slavery or involuntary servitude as punishment for crime. Vermont prides itself on being the first in the nation to ban slavery in 1777, but its constitution allows involuntary servitude in certain circumstances, such as to pay a debt, damage, fine or other cost.
Last year the Michigan Legislature approved two strong school choice bills that established a Michigan Student Opportunity Scholarship (SOS) program. Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer vetoed them, but the state constitution allows the Legislature to override a governor’s veto.
It’s clearly an election year scam, one perfectly timed to try to gin up votes for a president whose approval ratings make him toxic on the campaign trail. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi previously suggested Biden’s move would be illegal: “the president can’t do it. That’s not even a discussion.”
New Hampshire’s election officials are dispatching monitors in three communities for the upcoming state primary after problems were found in the vote counting in the previous elections.
Robin Chesnut-Tangerman, the House Progressive caucus leader who was defeated by Republican Sally Achey in the 2020 general election, has been appointed by the local Democratic committee to run for the House following the withdrawal of the Democratic nominee.
The California Air Resources Board is set to finalize an expansive plan to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035 on Thursday, which may accelerate the national transition to electric vehicles (EVs), The New York Times reported.