High college costs driven by deceptive accounting practices
Widespread use of an accounting trick at public universities may be artificially driving up the reported cost of an undergraduate education.
High-tax states should lower their taxes instead of trying to evade federal taxes
High-tax states such as New York, California, and New Jersey are spending significant time and resources trying to concoct ways for their high-income residents to evade federal taxes.
AT&T calls for legislation ending net neutrality debate
AT&T expressed the need for an “Internet Bill of Rights” overnight Tuesday in an apparent attempt to end the bureaucratic back-and-forth on “net neutrality.”
How state leaders can begin undoing Obamacare’s damage
The nation’s governors and state lawmakers should use every legal means available to them to fix their broken health insurance markets and thus reduce the punishing costs Obamacare is imposing on the residents of their states.
Trump at Davos: ‘Regulation is stealth taxation’
President Donald Trump compared regulations on American businesses to a type of stealth taxation.
Wendy Wilton discusses the state of Vermont’s agriculture economy
In this episode of Vote for Vermont, co-hosts Pat McDonald and Ben Kinsley interview Wilton to catch up on Vermont’s agriculture economy and learn more about the state’s relationship with the U.S. Farm Service Agency.
Veterans fighting back after NFL nixes ‘PleaseStand’ ad for Super Bowl
The NFL has rejected a Super Bowl magazine advertisement from the AMVETS urging people to stand for the national anthem, but the veterans organization isn’t sitting still for that.
More than 500 criminal ex-DACA recipients unaccounted for
More than 500 people who were removed from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for participating in criminal or gang activity are still at large in the U.S., according to a new report.
Betsy DeVos: ‘Common Core is dead’
DeVos has made school choice and reducing the role of the federal government in education two of her priorities as the Trump administration’s education chief. She also is working toward fulfilling President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign promise to end Common Core.
School choice helped this girl escape a broken school, then become valedictorian
The right to choose where your kids attend school should be common sense. But for too long, it’s something too many parents have been denied for their children.
DOJ threatens legal action against 23 potential sanctuary jurisdictions, including Burlington
The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it will subpoena up to 23 jurisdictions if they don’t offer proof they are complying with a key federal immigration law.
Statehouse Headliners: Trump tax cut rebate extends to customers of VT Gas, VELCO; ICE raids hotel in Colchester
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, the Trump tax cut rebate has extended to customers of Vermont Gas and VELCO, the Vermont Senate will push for commercial pot next year, and ICE detains 14 immigrants in Colchester.