New Hampshire House speaker files bill to block vaccine mandate
New Hampshire House Speaker Sherman Packard is working on legislation that would ban state or local enforcement of COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Deb Billado: Ari Fleischer coming to Vermont in October
On Tuesday, October 19th, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer will join the Vermont Republican Party at our annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner.
Democrats’ massive spending bill would hasten America’s fundamental transformation
The spending issue on its own is deeply concerning. What makes this bill worse is how it’s crammed with all kinds of straight giveaways to Democrat-oriented groups, as well as policies that wouldn’t pass through stand-alone legislation.
A first look at how many Granite Staters may have been harmed or died from COVID-19 vaccinations
These numbers are as of Sept 3. And I am not suggesting this is complete or definitive. This is a starting point for working out the most accurate information we can manage moving forward.
Public meeting to provide details on $100 million available in infrastructure and water quality funding for Vermonters
Agency of Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore invites the public to join her on Oct. 7 to discuss the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding, including ANR’s plan to invest approximately $100 million in a variety of water infrastructure projects.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Dems’ $3.5 trillion spending bill ‘existential threat’ to economy
“This reconciliation bill is effectively 100 bills in one representing every big government idea that’s never been able to pass in Congress,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Suzanne Clark said. “The bill is an existential threat to America’s fragile economic recovery and future prosperity.”
Leaked documents show Biden military’s plan to grill service members over religious vaccine exemption
Guidance reportedly crafted by military attorneys urged Coast Guard chaplains to grill service members on their religious beliefs in attempts to discover whether a service member’s religious exemption is a “ruse,” draft documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Rep. Anne Donahue: We look back on eugenics, slavery in horror — maybe someday abortion, too
The day may come when we express our apology for the disregard of the human lives that are in utero in the same way we did this year for those lives we devalued 70 and 80 years ago in Vermont’s eugenics policies.
Tom Evslin: Does Bernie Sanders oppose vaccine mandates?
If government can’t tell people what to do with their bodies, it can’t tell them they have to be vaccinated. Not even a U.S. senator gets to have it both ways.
McClaughry: Shameless climate misreporting
Here’s an outstanding example of how your government, in this case the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, puts out deliberately misleading or false news about the terrors of climate change.
Julie Moore: Successful climate action will require each of us to do our part
Successful climate action will require each of us — at the individual, local and state level — to do our part to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help prepare Vermont to respond to the impacts that a changing climate will have. The Climate Action Plan will help guide that work.
Roper: Everything’s on the table to save the planet, except the one thing that might work
The committee might find at the end of their research that the small modular nuclear reactors are not the right solution for Vermont, but to not even look into it is inexcusable and negligent.