In the May 2, 2019, issue of the Chronicle of the Vermont State House, a mandatory high school civics bill is proposed, a trophy buck returns to the Natural Resources, Fish & Wildlife Committee room, and more.
The script for what followed has become all too familiar. Students protested his appearance and accused Legutko of criticizing multiculturalism and gay marriage. They falsely claimed he “has built his career off of homophobic, xenophobic, racist, misogynistic discourse.”
The U.K. is in the grip of a climate change panic. Weeks of incessant protests and alarming rhetoric culminated in U.K. lawmakers declaring a “climate emergency.”
Florida lawmakers sent a bill to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis Wednesday that would allow teachers to carry firearms at school in response to the 2018 Parkland shooting.
The American Legislative Exchange Council just published its annual analysis of states’ economic outlooks, Rich States, Poor States, and, overall, they peg Vermont as 49th, or next to worst. Thank goodness for New York!
Kansas wishes to ignore fetal personhood in the name of women’s second-trimester abortions, no matter how much the babies suffer. Vermont seeks to blindly do the same, through the third trimester and delivery. But not all Americans are blind.
It has become so dispiriting to witness many Vermont nonprofits fail, and all too often the cause can be boards not carrying out their due diligence.
Barr made the explosive revelation during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding the results of the special counsel’s probe. The investigation severely undercut the Democrat-funded Steele dossier, which alleged a “well-developed conspiracy” between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
Maybe our state would be better off if we told our legislators to quit screwing around in their ideological sandbox and to focus their time and energy on actually operating the machinery of government.
Coming up this week, the Senate weatherization bill would double the heating tax and tax electricity, too, and one House chair is urging skeptical reps to “let the people decide” about Prop 5. Also, the Human Rights Commission wants power to investigate police.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears set to sign a bill creating a program to import prescription drugs from Canada after the Republican-backed legislation passed the state Senate.
In fact, the letter does not contain any mention of roads, bridges or highways, but instead urges Trump to “go beyond transportation” and include spending for climate change, housing initiatives, public health and “clean energy.”