Don Turner: The Legislature’s irresponsibility on pensions
The last thing you do in the middle of a crisis is kick the can down the road. Yet, that’s exactly what the Legislature just did on Vermont’s mounting pension liabilities.
Charles Martin: Act 250 is stifling economic opportunity in Vermont
While recent news of the cancellation of Montpelier’s hotel project is troubling, those familiar with Act 250 are not surprised. The decision to terminate the project is yet another example of how truly broken our state’s principal land use law is.
Roll Call: How your senator voted on guaranteeing abortion from conception to birth
Proposal 5 would amend the Vermont Constitution to say that “an individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means.”
Reports of blood clots from Johnson & Johnson vaccine prompt feds to suspend its use
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning Tuesday advising Americans and their health care providers to “pause” using the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine after reports of health complications.
BLM’s ‘Marxist’ co-founder raked in $20,000 a month as chairwoman of jail reform group
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation co-founder and executive director Patrisse Cullors, a self-identified “trained Marxist,” raked in upwards of $20,000 a month serving as the chairwoman of a Los Angeles jail reform group in 2019, according to campaign finance records.
Vermont follows federal recommendation to pause Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine
Based on the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and the Food & Drug Administration, Vermont has paused the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Keelan: Except for a few, we are all flatlanders
Declaring oneself to be a Native Vermonter states that I am different from you, emphasizing and labeling all others as flatlanders. The question is, for what purpose? Aren’t we all Vermonters committed to the State’s motto of Freedom and Unity?
‘I really missed public policy’: Tayt Brooks talks new role with ACCD
Twenty years ago, Tayt Brooks said he never would’ve thought that he was going to be the deputy secretary of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD), a role he recently accepted.
New Hampshire opens up vaccines to out-of-staters
New Hampshire is expanding eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccines to include anyone older than 16, regardless of residency. “Whether you live in Boston, Maine, Vermont, New York, doesn’t matter, come on in, get your vaccine,” Gov. Chris Sununu said at a news briefing last week.
Campaign for Vermont takes action on two fronts
Campaign for Vermont engaged on two separate issues this week: calling on legislative leaders to take action on pension reform, and we sent a letter on broadband rollout to the Senate Finance Committee.
Podcast: How far left infiltrated corporate America and what can be done about it
The radical left has infiltrated corporate America and is using big business to promote a political agenda. Justin Danhof joins the podcast to discuss the ways in which Stop Corporate Tyranny is working to end the left’s influence on American companies, and how you can be a part of the movement.
Vermont on path to having least secure mail-in voting process in the country
If S.15 passes into law, it would make voting by mail a permanent feature of Vermont elections, but with almost none of the security measures noted in the Carter/Baker report, nor the measures utilized by the five states that have already adopted vote-by-mail systems.