Matt Krauss: An open letter to VPR/Vermont PBS board members
Dear VPR/Vermont PBS board members, I listen to VPR and watch Vermont PBS and want this merger to be successful. A few changes might help meet that goal.
Steve Cairns: A new, unintended consequence of the 24-year-old Act 60
As a result of these arbitrary exclusions, we can confidently state that household income as a measurement of ability to pay is a joke. It is clearly not.
Dead or alive: Which bills have already made crossover?
We are less than a week away from the crossover deadline in the Legislature. This is the drop-dead point where a bill must be voted out of one legislative body in order to be considered by the other.
GoVT prez: New version of S.30 has criminal punishment for carrying gun inside a hospital
The new version of S.30 strikes all the previous wording and establishes a single new criminal punishment for carrying a gun inside a hospital.
Letter: Claims of cleaning up the environment overshadow downsides of this transition
We are witnessing corporate America and Big Green Energy flooding social media and legacy news with advertisements pushing the virtues of transitioning to battery operated transportation. The external costs of this Green New Deal are being largely ignored.
Here are some books the woke left would replace Dr. Seuss with
As you likely have heard, the latest casualty of cancel culture is Dr. Seuss. And because nature abhors a vacuum, the woke left has a list of books as ready replacements it would prefer that children read instead.
Advancing economic freedom matters more than ever, 2021 index shows
The index, which considers economic policies and conditions in 184 sovereign countries, reveals a world economy that as a whole continues to be “moderately free.” Perhaps reflecting the challenging environment complicated by the ongoing pandemic, global average economic freedom has not improved over the past year.
Biden’s sanctuary policies leave no safe haven for victims, federal agents
On his first day in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed a record 17 executive orders. One of the worst — and most dangerous — was his “Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities.” A more apt title would be “Providing Sanctuary for Criminal Aliens.”
McClaughry: Biden and Sanders on suing firearms manufacturers
The point of these lawsuits was, frankly, to strangle the firearms industry with thousands of lawsuits charging them with complicity in gun crimes.
Connecticut, Montana governors defend reopening states to full capacity
Democratic Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont explained Friday why he’s lifting some COVID-19 business restrictions, and Republican Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte said Friday that the state is returning to normal and criticized President Joe Biden’s “name-calling.”
Blowing 4 factual holes in the Biden gun control agenda
Unfortunately, instead of seeking support for laws addressing the real underlying factors of gun violence, Biden is pushing politically divisive measures that would turn the right to keep and bear arms on its head without meaningfully making the nation any safer.
GMP announces agreement with Great River Hydro to purchase clean, cost-effective, local and reliable power
Green Mountain Power announced a power purchase agreement with Great River Hydro to provide clean, cost-effective, local and reliable power for customers. The power purchase agreement, subject to Public Utility Commission review and approval, is for 30 years starting in 2023.