Maybe the timing was just co-incidence, but yesterday, on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Aug. 14, 2003, Big Blackout that put 50 million North Americans in the dark, Gov. Phil Scott and four other New England governors announced plans to prevent crippling power blackouts.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) encouraged states to let insurers sell individual plans without surcharges off the exchange to help Americans who do not qualify for subsidized health plans.
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the individual mandate functions as a tax, which means that Scott approved a new health tax despite pledging no new taxes. How should Vermonters make sense of this discrepancy?
High potency marijuana is the real killer and the gun is an innocent accomplice. Until we get it, more gun laws will be passed and the violence, and even the mass killings, will also increase.
Random metal detection searches in the schools were also highly divisive with some believing the action was “dehumanizing” and “students of color were disproportionately searched,” while others felt the metal detecting services discouraged students from bringing weapons into schools, according to the report.
He sent messages referring to Trump as an “idiot” and mocking Trump supporters. Strzok also wrote to Page on Aug. 8, 2016 that “we’ll stop” Trump from becoming president.
What does it mean to ordinary Vermonters for the federal government to freeze the CAFÉ standard for new passenger cars at 37 mpg in 2020, rather than pushing it up to 54.5 mpg in 2025?
During a debate on VPR between the four Democratic candidates who will appear on that party’s Aug. 14th primary ballot, all stated support for placing a new carbon tax on Vermonters.
Democratic socialists claim countries such as Venezuela and Cuba implemented socialism “incorrectly” or that other factors are to blame. They prefer to cite Norway, Sweden and Denmark as examples of socialist success. There are, however, several key problems with that.
President Trump leveled a multi-front attack on Saturday against dossier author Christopher Steele, the media, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The federal deficit rose 20 percent due primarily to an increase in spending, the Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday.
Given the vague and increasingly expanding use of the term “hate speech,” it’s not unreasonable to think that purging Infowars is the tip of the iceberg.