Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill into law Thursday barring transgender athletes in public schools and colleges from competing in women’s sports. South Dakota’s Senate sent a similar bill to the desk of Republican Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday.
In this episode of Vote for Vermont, Meredith Angwin, a nuclear physicist and clean energy advocate, joins co-hosts Pat McDonald and Ben Kinsley to talk about her new book, “Shorting the Grid.”
The changes allow two unvaccinated households to gather at a time, and permitting restaurants to seat multiple households together, but no more than six people can be seated at the same table. Masking, distancing, capacity limits, and other mitigation guidelines remain in place.
March is Women’s History Month, yet Congress appears ready to celebrate in the worst way possible by creating more barriers for women who seek to exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
The inexcusable failure of most American public schools to reopen public schools since they “temporarily” shut down a year ago has taken a heavy toll on the educational progress and mental health of America’s children and teenagers.
Vermont’s fiscal stability and future economic health depend on reducing government spending, not fashioning ever more areas to siphon off wealth in the name of “helping” us.
The bill known as HR 1, or the For the People Act, should be called “the Federal Takeover of Elections Act,” Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose says.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reportedly overruled a memo from the commanding general of the National Guard who objected to keeping troops in D.C., according to Fox News.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that includes extended unemployment benefits, direct funding to states and municipalities, and $1,400 checks for most Americans.
Bills like H.366 that seek to recognize, organize and treat people differently based on race are, in fact, systemically racist. They are designed to systematically treat people of different races differently under the law.
Dear Senators Leahy and Sanders of Vermont: Please vote against HR 1 for the good of your constituents. This bill will encourage voter fraud, leave voter registration rolls unreliable and weaken our democracy. It undermines the personal sovereignty of the Vermont voter.
If signed into law, the “Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021” would mandate background checks whenever somebody purchases a gun, regardless of where they purchase it.