Roper: ESSEX carbon tax robs poor to pay rich
Wealthy Vermonters who have the financial wherewithal to install solar panels, buy Priuses and live in newer, better insulated housing can take full advantage of the ESSEX plan.
Horrific sex ed curriculum is taking over, and objectors are getting steamrolled
Understand that I have sat through years of shocking meetings. My day job is monitoring and lobbying the United Nations. But I have never seen or heard anything like this. This meeting was a horror show. And a Soviet one at that.
Parents lost custody of teenager who wants to ‘transition’ to a boy: What you need to know
The most helpful therapies do not try to remake the body to conform with thoughts and feelings — which is impossible — but rather to help people find healthy ways to manage this tension and move toward accepting the reality of their bodily selves.
Roper: Local Vermont elections affected by fraudulent votes
The point at issue here is that the BCA contended that these second-home owners were eligible to vote because they had an “intent” to establish a primary domicile in the district at some point in the future, owned property, and that was enough to give them status to vote. The BCA believed this despite the law.
The ESSEX Plan: Symbolic environmentalism that will impose economic harm on Vermonters
Enacting the ESSEX Plan will damage Vermont’s economy, place an undue and unfair burden on lower-income Vermonters and encourage more people to leave Vermont in search of better economic opportunity.
Study: Viewing world through eyes of your minority group might harm your mental health
Minorities identifying strongly with their ethnic groups might cause them to suffer from some mental health issues, according to a new study.
Sen. Joe Benning: Guns and sense
I’ve heard from many Vermonters demanding universal background checks, yet virtually every mass shooting we’ve had in this country has involved a shooter who passed a background check. This includes the Nevada concert shooter, the Florida school shooter, the South Carolina church shooter, and the Vermont teenager who thankfully was intercepted.
Statehouse Headliners: Pot legalization may mean more suicide and traffic deaths, Chittenden to benefit from carbon tax
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, pot legalization may mean more suicide and traffic deaths, a carbon tax would benefit Chittenden County at others’ expense, and all 30 senators sponsor Vermont Equal Rights Amendment.
Moore: Local Option Tax not right for Barre City
The LOT is a tax increase plain and simple. It is bad for Barre citizens. It is bad for Barre businesses. It is bad for Barre visitors. It is bad for Barre, period.
Justice Clarence Thomas decries victimhood culture in rare public remarks
“You always have to play the hand you’re dealt,” he said. “If you’re dealt a bad hand, you still have to play it.”
Lack of ‘candor’ cited in Obama administration surveillance requests
A judge who is part of a secret court system criticized the Obama administration for “an institutional lack of candor” in seeking warrants to spy on U.S. citizens.
2 anti-Trump FBI officials used private email, their texts indicate
Two FBI officials who exchanged anti-Trump text messages on government equipment during the 2016 presidential campaign also conducted official business over private email accounts, according to a Senate report.