Vermonters asking the Legislature “buddy, can you spare a dime?” for basic education, housing, food and employment assistance may wonder at a Legislature willing to front almost $1 million to create a legal industry surrounded by so much controversy and so many question marks.
Most laid-off workers are eligible to collect unemployment plus a $600 relief check, meaning they would prefer to stay home. But if 30% of Vermont’s restaurants close, where will these people work when the unemployment and relief funds expire?
Vermont, with its small state voting population, is prime country for remarkably close elections, making it particularly sensitive to any improper voting. In 2016, in a Vermont state House seat race, the outcome was determined by one vote out of 2,000 votes cast. In such a race there is no room for any fraud.
The Vermont-NEA members have been hurt less financially than any other large group of employees so far. Let them not claim abuse if they are asked to give a little. After all, it is for the good of the kids.
Your help to get your community’s small businesses through this pandemic crisis will help our local economies emerge stronger and better in the years to follow.
In this week’s Covid-19 related news, municipalities may require masks to be worn in public, Gov. Phil Scott wants a school budget vote do-over, and the state of emergency can be extended as many times as necessary.
The jobs governor I voted for twice has turned into Governor Fear, Governor Depression and Governor Oops. Believing tidbits from CNN and science fiction, he’s strangled Vermont’s economy.
A new RealClear Opinion Research poll of 2,122 registered voters found that a strong majority surveyed support school choice and 40 percent are more likely to pursue homeschooling opportunities after COVID-19 restrictions end.
A federal judge in a high-profile Title IX case has ordered lawyers representing three girls track stars to refer to two biological males who outraced them as “transgender females.”
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded in 2013, Americans use their firearms in lawful self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times a year. These instances of proper defensive gun use provide an important counterbalance to the national conversation.
As Vermonters and the businesses that employ us struggle to get back to some sort of economic normalcy, the Vermont House Ways and Means Committee is contemplating raising $167 million in new taxes to offset lost revenue for the Education Fund.
Under the state’s mandated lockdown to prevent spread of COVID-19, New Hampshire’s beer industry has seen steep financial declines like many other sectors, and hopes for relief when some places reopen for outdoor dining May 18.