In the fourth episode of “Travels With Charlie – Vermont Politics in Real Life,” host Charlie Papillo talks Act 46 with Republican state Sen. Corey Parent and David Kelley, an attorney representing school districts jointly appealing the State Board of Education’s merger decisions.
A law passed this year in Vermont would expunge criminal records for drug possession and some DUI crimes, making it harder for employers to know about employees’ drug and alcohol histories.
Individual Vermonters must get informed, train as recovery coaches or counselors, and come along supportively in prevention, counseling, or for those in recovery. The time for ignorant stigma is past.
A range of diverse advocacy groups are lauding the latest Executive Order signed by President Donald Trump that requires hospitals to publicly disclose what patients and insurers actually pay for services in an easy-to-read and accessible format – before they receive care.
On Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., introduced legislation to wipe out every dollar of student loan debt in the United States, eliminating it for roughly 45 million Americans.
Getting the federal government to become the sole provider of insurance makes great campaign rhetoric, but in reality, makes no sense — not until we, as a country, get the cost of health care under control.
As citizens of an ostensibly free society founded upon the principle of limited government, this is not something we should be pleased about. This bag ban is a truly authoritarian, totalitarian policy.
Vermont’s health insurance regulator announced Monday that insurers may not deny coverage for gender-change procedures based on the age of the patient alone.
Like wind power, it requires the environmentally devastating — and fossil-fuel based — mining of rare earth metals.
A Google executive suggested in an undercover video from Project Veritas that breaking up the company will make it more difficult for tech companies to moderate social media platforms.
Selina competes in track at Bloomfield High School in Bloomfield, Connecticut. She wasn’t able to qualify for the 55-meter event in the New England regionals because two spots were taken by biological boys.
The surest way to stop the sharp rise in both college tuition and student debt is to get the federal government out of the student loan business.