As of Jan. 27, the 2019-20 Vermont Legislature has introduced 1,241 new bills and eight proposed constitutional amendments. The following is a partial list of bills introduced last week into the Vermont House.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders leads the field of Democratic presidential hopefuls in the first two states that will vote, according to the latest polling, while California businessman Andrew Yang is the latest to qualify for the next debate.
If someone were to ask you today what the Vermont Department of Health’s current position is on legal sales of marijuana, I venture many would say it has changed from opposition in the past to support today. I am happy to report that the department’s opposition to S.54 has not changed.
The Supreme Court Monday allowed the Trump administration to enforce a new rule that will deny green cards to foreign nationals who use taxpayer-funded social services, lifting lower court injunctions that blocked the change.
The Global Warming Solutions Act would simply bestow on state bureaucrats the power to force Vermonters to submit to an endless list of expensive and invasive rules to comply with arbitrary emissions goals, and eliminate any shred of our elected representatives’ accountability for those actions.
A dark money group founded by Sen. Bernie Sanders is violating federal campaign finance law, according to a Federal Election Commission complaint filed Wednesday.
I look for improvement as a result of the next election but the corrective action, even if it was applied today, would take a generation or two to really manifest to a point of being significantly noticeable. Time to clean house corner to corner, and wall to wall, and at 109 State St., Montpelier.
Religious liberty is under assault in many ways. People of faith are mocked for their religious conscience and government sees religious values as obstacles to overcome rather than a value to cherish and protect.
Students, staff and parents from home schools and private schools are invited to participate in National School Choice Week observations on Wednesday, January 29 at the Capital Plaza, 100 State Street, in Montpelier.
After watching initial House Judiciary Committee hearings on H.610, I was stunned that Vermont’s Office of Legislative Counsel (represented at the House Judiciary Committee by Attorney Erik Fitzpatrick) did not even address the issue of potential conflict with the Second Amendment.
Debate over the Global Warming Solutions Act in the House Energy and Technology Committee grew philosophical about whether or not democracy is an appropriate form of government for dealing with climate change.
Laws only work if they codify cultural practices that have widespread acceptance. We are nowhere near that in our society, and the legislature’s all-or-nothing approach to abortion is only driving our citizens apart.