New York finished first in the rankings, meaning its residents were most inclined to borrow, while Vermont landed at 50th. Other states in the Northeast, including Massachusetts (36th), Connecticut (38th) and Maine (44th) landed somewhere in the middle.
“It’s wrong. It’s dangerous. It’s selfish. It’s unacceptable,” Cuomo said of violating restrictions placed on businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s also illegal, so today beginning in New York City we’re going to enact a ‘three strikes and you’re closed’.”
In the 25th episode of “Travels With Charlie — Vermont Politics in Real Life,” host Charlie Papillo discusses controversial vote-by-mail elections with Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos and former state Rep. Paul Dame.
Less than three weeks after protecting Black Lives Matter graffiti, the Vermont Agency of Transportation has scrubbed away anti-BLM roadway messages in the same town.
In the 24th episode of “Travels With Charlie — Vermont Politics in Real Life,” host Charlie Papillo discusses campaigning with Republican Party Chair Deb Billado and Democratic Party Executive Director Scott McNeil.
Thanks to COVID, this ongoing pilfering is now exposed, as is Vermont’s broader economic vulnerability in the event of national downturn. Vermonters were some of the most independent people in America in 1929, but now are reduced to groveling servitude before legislative lords and out-of-state millionaires.
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp issued an executive order Wednesday prohibiting local municipalities from establishing mask mandates for people who go out in public.
The combination of UVM’s fossil fuel divestment, Gov. Scott’s zero-carbon transportation pledge, and the Legislature’s Global Warming Solutions Act will increase the cost of living for Vermonters.
While Vermonters were waiting in hours long lines to get military surplus MREs in order to feed their families, Democrats were focused on passing the Global Warming Solutions Act, with the objective of tamping down any economic activity that uses fossil fuels.
Their comments follow massive, ongoing demonstrations and riots — many of which condemn law enforcement — alongside calls to defund police departments and prosecute officers accused of misconduct at elevated levels.
Gov. Phil Scott announced that Vermont has joined 15 states and the District of Columbia in signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that calls for 100% of all new medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sales to be zero emission vehicles by 2050.
Vermont’s GWSA legislation will go back to the Vermont House of Representatives for another look when lawmakers return in late August. Before they make it law, they should do the kind of cost-benefit analysis New Zealand did.