National School Choice Week President Andrew Campanella explains, “We choose everything in this country — the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, the candidates we vote for. Why don’t more parents get to choose the educational environments that are right for their children?”
Lesbian feminist Peggy Luhrs and her group Gender Critical Vermont have been forced to cancel a discussion at the Fletcher Free Library about the clash between transgenderism and feminism, according to reports by WCAX and Seven Days.
Throughout January and February 2020, Vermont state officials and regional planning commission staff are hosting four public information meetings to discuss the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI).
New Hampshire is set to receive $7.7 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as part of its Housing Continuums of Care Grant.
On Jan. 23, 2020, the Senate Committee on Judiciary and the Senate Health and Welfare Committee held a joint hearing to consider research on the effect of gun waiting periods on suicide.
On Jan. 23, 2020, the Senate Committee on Judiciary reviewed S.169, an act related to firearms procedures including magazine capacity exemptions, firearms transfers and background checks, gun purchase waiting periods, and extreme risk protection orders.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his first executive orders as president would undo President Donald Trump’s immigration initiatives, calling them “racist” and “disgusting.”
About 100 years after the heyday of the Vermont eugenics movement led by UVM Professor Henry Perkins, the Vermont Legislature this week is preparing an official apology to Abenaki, French-Canadians and others forced into sterilization under laws promulgated by previous general assemblies.
Polling shows that about 70 percent of Americans support school choice, and an overwhelming majority support scholarship programs that allow parents to send their child to a school other than their local public school.
Charles Eugene Cartier Jr., of New Hampshire, just pled guilty to double voting in the 2016 general election, voting first in New Hampshire then again in neighboring Massachusetts. He was the fourth person found guilty of duplicate voting in New Hampshire just in the last year.
On Jan. 24, the House Committee on Energy and Technology held a hearing on H.688, the Global Warming Solutions Act. Among the witnesses who gave testimony were Vermont Treasurer Beth Pearce, Mary Powell and Jen Duggan of the Conservation Law Foundation.
Now that Daily Kos has been mugged by the government, maybe their experience will inspire some empathy with other employers and employees victimized by “arbitrary,” “unfeasible,” “nonsensical” laws coming out of governments ostensibly to protect us from ourselves.