That Copley is efficiently meeting a pretty clear “need,” providing superior service at lower price, is irrelevant to state regulators. What matters to GMCB is that Copley is taking in more revenue than expected, in violation of their bureaucratic spreadsheet.
What was supposed to answer many Burlingtonians’ growing frustrations with their phone and cable companies has morphed into a boondoggle that has cost taxpayers more than $26 million.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a proposal to repeal the Obama administration’s signature global warming regulation.
Though it’s nice to think that parents with less hours to work — or no hours to work — would use the opportunity to spend more quality time with their kids, it is more likely that the resulting underemployment and unemployment a minimum wage hike would usher in would hurt rather than help Vermont children.
Folks, this is what it means to run a scam. Put it up there with the email you got from the guy in Uganda who wants to wire you lottery winnings. Just hand over your bank account number! Support the carbon tax, and get free money!
Let’s be honest, if the tax plan currently being debated in Washington becomes law, there will be winners and losers. The question is, how will it affect you?
If the higher price of solar panels and the declining Investment Tax Credit undercut the viability of their business plans, expect an urgent appeal for a taxpayer bailout for solar installers, to counter the government tariff bailout of the solar panel makers.
Confederate statues aren’t the only ones to come under siege from protesters. Christopher Columbus, the Spanish-backed Italian explorer who discovered the Americas, is also being attacked on a wide scale.
Why should Americans from red states and lower-tax blue states be subsidizing other states? If states like California want to embrace big government, that’s fine — but they should also have to finance it themselves, not ask for a handout from the rest of the country.
The Trump administration came out strongly in defense of religious freedom Friday, with new legal guidance and a move to reverse one of the most controversial Obamacare mandates.
Many in the media cling to their ideological vision that gun control is the only way to prevent gun violence in contravention of experience and data. But this does not preclude them from occasional honest moments.
Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann used his lecture on academic freedom to attack “climate deniers” who allegedly launched a “massive misinformation campaign” to mislead Americans about global warming science.