H.439, a bill to double the tax on most home heating fuels, passed the Vermont House Tuesday afternoon after lengthy debate. It was opposed by most Republicans and independents and supported by most Democrats and Progressives.
It would be impossible to ever truly compensate for the inhumanity of slavery. And how could you ever find a just and fair way to do so today when nobody involved in the transaction has ever owned a slave or ever been a slave?
Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders refused to respond when asked if he would accept Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s completed report into on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election Tuesday.
A number of renewable energy executives and leaders have not completely embraced the Green New Deal, fearing the divisive proposal would cause more harm than good.
There is nothing abstract about a third-trimester, viable child being killed. There is no more physician-patient privacy right in such a thing than for a psychiatrist to justify a patient who brutally beats their 10-year-old.
Tax and regulation of legal marijuana will get a close look in House Government Operations Committee this week. Gov Ops also will discuss ranked choice voting and the proposed Montpelier charter change to allow non-citizens to vote in municipal elections.
In February, owner Carolyn Handy announced that the company, which employed several people in southern Vermont, would be closing as a result of the rising costs of doing business in the state.
Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said most voters do not care about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s completed report into on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election Monday.
Banning the personal ownership of stun guns in New York state is unconstitutional because it violates individuals’ Second Amendment right to bear arms, a federal judge ruled last week.
Key language in Proposal 5, the constitutional amendment for unrestricted abortion, could allow unrestricted assisted suicide and legal prostitution, a former Vermont Supreme Court law clerk warned Thursday.
The importance of the forest product industry in Vermont cannot be overstated. It adds approximately $1.5 billion to our gross domestic product.
Last week, the AFL-CIO sent a letter to the bill’s lead sponsors expressing its opposition to the proposal on behalf of the 13 million workers the union represents.