Former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas takes issue with Middlebury’s decision to shun another of the state’s former governors, John Mead, also an alumnus of the college, for its abrupt September 2021 decision to remove Mead’s name from its chapel.
Vermont pro-abortion campaigners are trying to force voters into a mold where “pro-choice” means no checks on abortion throughout all nine months, right up to the point of birth. Prop 5/Article 22 is an “all or nothing” amendment leaving Roe moderates cringing at its possibilities.
Retail marijuana sales are anticipated to begin later this year in The Green Mountain State, and will be taxed at 20%, which includes a 14% excise tax and the state’s 6% sales tax.
Retired NFL star Herschel Walker won the Republican primary for Georgia’s 2022 Senate race Tuesday, according to multiple election forecasters. Also, Sarah Huckabee Sanders won the Republican nomination for Arkansas’ 2022 gubernatorial race.
Vermont police and school officials have investigated reports of potential shootings at the Derby Junior High School, Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg, and Montpelier High School. There are no school resource officers at Champlain Valley Union High School and Montpelier High School.
Comprehensive gun safety legislation must be brought to the floor of the House for a vote. The Senate must end the filibuster, then expand background checks and waiting periods for people who do not pass a background check.
In one incident, armed employees at the Jefferson Gun Outlet in Metairie, Louisiana, returned fire after an active shooter killed two people and injured two others. An armed citizen killed an active shooter in an incident outside the Three Corners Townhouses in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Legislation introduced by Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy, Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith along with Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Jamaal Bowman, would have prohibited federal funding from being used for police in schools.
New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has vetoed a proposal that would have banned state and local mask mandates in schools during public health emergencies.
With a global COVID-19 pandemic and national and international turmoil, people have been exposed to extended stress, disruption and trauma. When coupled with the terrible acts witnessed over the past month, many Vermonters may be feeling emotions such as anger, sadness, frustration and grief.
“Priority 1” crimes like arson, assault, overdoses and robbery rose 14.2% in Burlington in 2021, the first full year of the ‘Defund the Police” staff reductions measures, according to a May 20, 2022 report by city analyst Jonathan Larson.
How many more senseless mass shootings will occur while we try to blame or regulate tools, when we have not — and apparently will not — take the simple precaution of providing real protection?