It’s time to put our legislators on notice that new building, new business and new industry are not our enemies, but the very elements which will put food on the tables of Vermonters, and keep our young graduates from fleeing to fairer climes where growth and economic vitality are not dirty words.
Florida Democrats are calling on Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to backtrack his comments after refusing to acknowledge opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate president.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had called the Smollett incident “a horrific instance of the surging hostility toward minorities around the country.”
Fed-up California parents participated in a “Sexxx Ed Sit Out” Tuesday morning to protest the state’s sex education curriculum, calling it “pornographic,” “age-inappropriate,” “highly biased and medically inaccurate instruction.”
Law enforcement has become increasingly reliant and aggressive toward ordinary citizens in using asset forfeiture to fund its operations. For 14 years, the Cato Institute ranked Vermont around No. 10 among the 50 states for asset protection. But we’ve recently dropped to No. 15.
The self-proclaimed democratic socialist is significantly ahead in the polls compared to his fellow presidential hopefuls, according to Real Clear Politics’ average of polls.
I rate VTDigger’s article by Colin Meyn as deliberately misleading. The bishop did not state that such abortion procedures were performed — he stated that they were legal, which they most evidently are. But Mr. Meyn’s straw man has caught fire — it appears from his own data that such procedures likely are performed here in Vermont, electively.
Congressional liberals in their “Medicare for All” bills would outlaw virtually all private health insurance, including job-based health coverage. In short, they would deny the right to enroll in any alternative to the government plan.
Democrats’ Green New Deal legislation envisions a U.S that eliminates all greenhouse gas emissions through a massive expansion of government control, which includes a green grid, electrified mass transit and high-speed rail.
Gov. Phil Scott and some key legislative leaders indicated a willingness to reform Vermont’s estate tax, raising the exemption from $2.75 million to $5.75 million. This is a good step. An even better step would be to eliminate the estate tax all together.
One student admitted that he doesn’t know much about him. Another student said that while his progressive track record and values were good, “the Democratic party could use less old white men.”
The Green New Deal isn’t just a climate change manifesto targeting U.S. energy, it also looks to drastically change how food is produced and, ultimately, what Americans eat.