Feulner: There is voter fraud, and here’s evidence
You can find examples like these in every state. Yet efforts to put in place even the simplest policies to increase election security is met with stiff resistance and cries of “disenfranchisement.”
Statehouse Headliners: Independent schools to gather in Montpelier Jan. 24 for learning, recognition, cash prizes
Independent school students celebrate National School Choice Week at the Vermont Statehouse in January. A day of awards, recognition and learning is planned again this year, and all independent schools — including home schools — are welcome to participate.
Flemming: Vermont health care regulations gone wild
The GMCB’s attempt to use the certificate-of-need process to chasten Gifford for senior housing that addresses, in its own words, “an identified need” too quickly is an example of all that is superfluous about CON.
America has a colorful history of populists — what does it mean for Trump in 2020?
Populism doesn’t carry with it any political ideology, per se. Bernie Sanders is just as much of a populist as Donald Trump in the sense that they both want to be leading revolutions.
Walter Williams: America has strayed from Founders’ vision for economic freedom and limited government
“Nowhere in the Constitution, in the United States Constitution, do we find authority for Congress to tax and spend for up to three-quarters of what Congress taxes and spends for today,” Williams said.
Statehouse Headliners: New Act 250 takes aim at climate change, forest fragmentation, living in rural Vermont
A draft report released by the Commission on Act 250 recommends the 2019 Legislature amend Vermont’s 1970 comprehensive development and land use law to, among other things, add ‘climate change’ as a criterion for project review and approval.
Billado: The Vermont Republican Party is not and should not be Democrat-lite
We are proud of our right-of-center values and principles. We will not apologize for putting hard-working Vermonters first. We will not apologize for standing up for what’s right or pushing back against the crushing taxes Democratic leadership forces on us.
Trump tax cuts spur unexpectedly high state revenues
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act touted by President Donald Trump is one of three reasons that at least 19 states are reporting unexpectedly high general fund revenue halfway through fiscal year 2019, tax policy expert Adam Michel.
Document details the eye-popping amount attorneys stand to make from climate crusades
One of the law firms involved in a trove of California lawsuits targeting ExxonMobil and other energy companies is poised to rake in millions of dollars from their climate crusades, according to Climate Litigation Watch.
State Headliners: Day care workers need more training, credentials and pay, advisory board tells legislators
Vermont’s early child care and education workers must be “well qualified, trained, and credentialed, accountable for high quality practice, and appropriately compensated,” according to a state advisory council.
Lindberg: As in ‘Hunger Games,’ the dystopian Capitol is Vermont
It is not difficult to find similarities between the Capitol of Panem and our own capitals of Montpelier and Washington D.C. The citizens of the districts in the Hunger Games have lost their rights to local self determination.
Why does Bernie Sanders want to stop Americans from working and shopping at Walmart?
Sen. Bernie Sanders is back again, with yet another attempt to indirectly mandate the $15 an hour minimum wage. It’s called the Stop WALMART Act, or Stop Welfare for Any Large Monopoly Amassing Revenue from Taxpayers Act.