Spakovsky: Redrawing districts is the job of elected leaders, not judges
We should not transfer authority for drawing political boundaries to unaccountable federal judges who, unlike legislators, can’t be voted out if we don’t like what they did.
Trump to troops on Thanksgiving: ‘We love you’
President Donald Trump gave thanks to U.S. troops in a video call from his resort Mar-a-Lago on Thanksgiving and praised them for all the progress they’ve made.
Rand Paul’s wife details their neighbor’s ‘terrifying’ attack
The wife of Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul explained the unexpected attack on her husband which left him severely injured and in immense pain.
Moore: A lot to be thankful for this year in Vermont
The job loss from the Great Recession was 14,700. We have now recovered 22,700 jobs, a 154 percent job recovery rate, the third highest in New England behind Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Drug abuse prevention director discusses Vermont’s opioid epidemic response
In this episode of Vote for Vermont, co-hosts Pat McDonald and Ben Kinsley interview Jolinda LaClair about the scope of the opiate epidemic in Vermont.
Key GOP holdout now backs gutting Obamacare through tax reform
“I have always supported the freedom to choose. I believe that the federal government should not force anyone to buy something they do not wish to buy in order to avoid being taxed,” Murkowski wrote in Alaska newspaper the Daily News-Miner.
Forcing Americans to buy government-prescribed insurance an ‘invasion of liberty’
The crucial rationale for the individual mandate was that somebody had to subsidize the premiums of older sicker people. That “somebody” was young healthy people who, faced with exorbitant premiums to pay for somebody else’s coverage, would logically walk away from the insurance market altogether.
California judge blocks Trump’s sanctuary city order
A federal judge in California blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order reducing funding for sanctuary cities Monday, limiting the administration’s ability to punish municipalities that violate federal immigration law.
FCC to introduce plans to roll back Obama-era internet regulations
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to introduce preliminary plans to roll back internet regulations imposed under the Obama administration.
Statehouse Headliners: Top cop foresees pot-related deaths, jobless rate at 2.9 percent
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, Vermont’s law enforcement chief sees “more fatalities on the highways” if pot is legalized, the jobless rate holds under 3 percent for the 2nd straight month, and the press corps continues to get shuffled.
Campus Watch: Taking a knee at UVM basketball game unproductive and inappropriate
If athletes are so concerned about their cause, there are more effective means of achieving change.
Dems in meltdown mode as Obamacare individual mandate moves toward extinction
The mandate was always more of a “nanny tax” than a way to raise government funding. Democrats included it in the law to force the young and healthy to buy into the government-run health exchanges so as to offset the high cost of the old and very sick.