Parents don’t need more child care so they can pick up more hours at work. Parents need better paying jobs and lower taxes so that they can provide for their families with one parent working 40 hours a week, instead of both parents combined working 80 hours a week.
President Joe Biden has created a 36-member commission to cope with the explosive question of packing the Supreme Court with additional justices in order to create a compliant 7-6 liberal majority to support his proposals.
Increasingly, states are lifting or modifying mask mandates. The following 14 states, in alphabetical order, had mask orders but have lifted them.
To reach herd immunity, more than 80% of the U.S. population would need to be vaccinated or have natural immunity to the virus. A person gets natural immunity after contracting the virus and gets the antibodies necessary to fight off future infection.
The Vermont Department of Labor disabled its online unemployment insurance initial claim application in response to a sharp increase in fraudulent claims being filed. Upon review of the claims being submitted, more than 90% of initial claims were being flagged as fraudulent.
The truth is that should S.15 become law, Vermont would have no effective security mechanisms to verify the validity of an absentee ballot. Election officials at the state and local levels admit that they have no way to verify who actually filled out an absentee ballot.
For those of you who truly know what Joe Biden stands for, then his address to Congress earlier this week wasn’t much of a surprise. The takeaway: higher taxes, a weaker economy, and more government interference in your lives.
Activists and critics argue that “Blue Lives Matter” is offensive and even racist, but pro-police advocates say the phrase is intended to draw awareness to the sacrifices that American law enforcement make every day to fight crime and protect their country.
A group of powerful congressional Democrats recently unveiled legislation that would expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices. Rep. Jerry Nadler laughingly described the court-packing scheme in distinctly Orwellian terms: “We are not packing the Supreme Court, we are unpacking it.”
Green Up Day Coordinator Phil Pouech talks about what Green Up day looks like in Hinesburg, and how it will be run this year.
The Vermont Senate on Thursday unanimously gave preliminary approval to a bill that would bring Universal School Breakfast to all Vermont schools by 2022. The bill (S.100) would make Vermont the first state in the nation to provide breakfast free of charge to all public school students every school day.
New Hampshire is set to receive $25 million from the Federal Communication Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. New Hampshire also received $194 million in funding through the American Rescue Plan. Some of that funding can be used by cities and counties to expand broadband access.