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Author Archives: TNR

Bruce Parker/TNR

McClaughry: The coming report on expanding Act 250

It’s transparently clear that the driving theme of the commission’s recommendations will be state regulation of as much land-related activity as can be swept under Act 250, to assure that our march to become the Perfect Little Climate Conscious State continues unabated.

January 13, 2019 in Commentary.
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What that top Bernie Sanders adviser is accused of doing

Robert Becker, who helped lead Sanders’s campaign in Michigan, New York, California and Iowa as a deputy national field director, has been accused of grabbing a female campaign staffer by her wrists and grabbing her head while kissing and putting his tongue in her mouth.

January 13, 2019 in U.S..
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Customers are paying nearly 100% of Seattle’s new soda tax

Seattle soda drinkers are paying nearly every penny of a tax on sugary drinks that the City Council put in place in January 2018, according to a new study.

January 13, 2019 in U.S..
Bruce Parker/TNR

Statehouse Headliners: Guv’s inaugural praises role of churches, raises concern about Act 250, childcare reform

Gov. Phil Scott’s inaugural speech on Thursday put in a good word for churches and housing, but his discussion of childcare, broadband and Act 250 solutions raises concerns.

January 11, 2019 in TNR News.

Roper: Pro-carbon tax SunCommon has more representation in Vermont House than any district

“Two employees of SunCommon, the VPIRG for-profit spin-off that feeds on renewable energy subsidies, plus the wife of the company’s president now serve in the Vermont House.”

January 11, 2019 in Commentary.
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Sanders and Trump could become strange bedfellows in fight against high drug prices

Both Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Donald Trump have criticized the pharmaceutical industry for high drug prices, but Sanders called on Trump to support his new drug cost legislation Thursday.

January 11, 2019 in U.S..
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CNN accidentally proves that walls and fences work

In the span of less than 24 hours, CNN inadvertently helped President Donald Trump make his case for funds to build a new barrier at the southern border not once, but twice.

January 11, 2019 in U.S..
The White House

4 things to know about Trump’s ability to declare an emergency to build a wall

Democrats contend the problems at the border do not constitute a crisis. So, unlike a flood or a terror attack, a presidential declaration of a national emergency over the border situation would be a political question — which would be unusual.

January 10, 2019 in U.S..
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Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’ would avert a ‘barely detectable’ amount of global warming

Democrats are increasingly lining up behind New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call for a “Green New Deal,” but few, if any, have talked about its actual impact on global warming.

January 10, 2019 in U.S..
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Students shocked to hear Democrats’ past statements in favor of wall

Many described the statements as “divisive,” “hateful,” and “dehumanizing.”

January 10, 2019 in U.S..
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Zupan: The carbon tax is a wolf in green clothing

Vermont, with the second-smallest population, is the greenest state. Even if you accept the most dire claims of the climate alarmists, a carbon tax imposed on Vermont would not have any significant or even measurable impact on our climate. It would be symbolic.

January 9, 2019 in Commentary.
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Bernie Sanders said climate change was our ‘biggest crisis,’ but was silent when asked about private jets

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who might run for president in 2020, called climate change our “biggest crisis of all” in a response to President Donald Trump’s border wall speech Tuesday night.

January 9, 2019 in U.S..

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