Middlebury College officials announced that access to the campus is off-limits to the public during the COVID-19 crisis. According to Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley, that includes roads that either bisect or transect the campus.
Lawmakers have mandated a variety of COVID restrictions to stem the spread of the pandemic, but not all lawmakers have been willing to follow the rules.
Without much-needed federal funding, some of New Hampshire’s recovery centers say they will fall into a funding gap. Cheryle Pacapelli, project director at Harbor Care in Nashua, told New Hampshire Public Radio that her facility experienced a nearly 40 percent drop in funding.
Asked about a CDC report saying only 6 percent of Covid-19 fatalities nationwide died solely from the disease, Health Commissioner Mark Levine at a press conference Tuesday decried the “armchair epidemiologists and physicians” who publicly impugn without understanding Covid-19 death statistics.
“I cannot in good conscience sit back and watch,” Thurston said regarding current political trends in Vermont and the nation. “The supermajority vice grip that Democrats and Progressives hold on the Vermont Legislature must be loosened.”
The overwhelming majority of reported coronavirus-related deaths – 94 percent – involved patients who had at least one other underlying health condition, such as a respiratory illness, diabetes, heart disease or another, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says.
Noticeably absent from the Democrats’ latest policy platform: any mention of “Medicare for All.” But don’t be fooled. Efforts to push government-run health care are still a real threat.
If filmmaker Woody Allen was right in 1989 when he said “80% of success is showing up,” then the Vermont Republican Party has taken a first successful step to improving on the six seats it now holds in the 30-seat Vermont Senate.
Montpelier City Council retroactively contrived a “government speech” rationale for the original application, concocted new rules to ensure that no one attempts free speech on “their” turf again, then applied that unconstitutional absurdity ex post facto to the second application.
I came away from the convention with one thought: the Democratic Party’s only goal is to defeat President Trump in November, by what will amount to one of the most negative presidential campaigns in recent memory.
Our best indicators of K-12 student performance in U.S. history, geography, and civics indicate that our students cannot explain the ideas behind representative government that set the U.S. apart.
Armstrong Williams grew up on his family farm in rural South Carolina and went on to become the second-largest minority broadcast TV owner in America. He has closely watched the racial tension in America and offers a path toward healing and atonement in his new book.