If a serving state senator doesn’t know what Article 22/Proposal 5 is — not even its name and general intent let alone its potential impact — how well informed do you think the average voter is? The answer is “not very,” and this is a problem.
Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center reports how the New Hampshire Legislature passed a recycling advancement bill over green objections.
Delegates from 194 countries, led by the United States, are expected this week to vote to relinquish their respective country’s sovereignty and grant autonomous power to the World Health Organization over international health events.
The Indiana state legislature banned biologically male athletes from playing on women’s sports at public schools on Tuesday, overriding Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto on the legislation.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state could proceed with its lawsuit against ExxonMobil and that a free speech law didn’t protect the company’s activity in question. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed the lawsuit against ExxonMobil in 2019.
Rep. Campbell and Sen. Kitchel wanted an unelected board to inform the Legislature as to how much money should be added to the annual expense of heating a home. When the annual dollar figure is released, they could both shrug and say, “Hey, that wasn’t me.”
“Thank you for contacting me about the ongoing discussions about reforming the World Health Organization’s global pandemic response in a new treaty. I support efforts to improve global pandemic preparedness while maintaining Congress’s unique role in ratifying treaties.”
Student researchers Andrew Langdon and Maggie Adams have compiled data on 101 Vermont towns and the money each spends on its library and police department. The results: Sixty-one towns spend more on police, while 40 put more money toward libraries, according to a press release from the center.
Gas prices have soared to new heights this month with the price of unleaded regular gas hitting a record high every day for the past two weeks. With Memorial Day weekend approaching, motorists face steep costs if they plan to travel.
Governor Phil Scott today announced that Commissioner Michael Schirling will be leaving his role leading the Vermont Department of Public Safety (DPS) next month.
The governor, along with Democratic U.S. Sen. Peter Welch and the Vermont Community Broadband Board, said $16 million in connectivity grants will fund fiber broadband service to Bolton and a group of towns in the Northeast Kingdom. The projects must be completed in the next two years.
The Arizona Department of Education (ADOE) directs students to LGBT-themed chatrooms for children as young as ten to discuss gender and sexuality as part of its student resources.