In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, the Marijuana Advisory Commission report is due in December, Vermont is the only state with more poverty last year, and 42 lobbyists are working for carbon tax groups. Also, a proposed IRS standard deduction hike could cut VT tax revenue by $80 million.
A group of black conservatives believe that there are more pressing issues in the black community that National Football League players should be drawing attention to in light of protests during the national anthem.
Environmentalists are after records of meetings between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and members of the agriculture industry over repealing part of the Clean Water Act.
In this episode of Vote for Vermont, co-hosts Pat McDonald and Ben Kinsley interview Forest, Parks and Recreation Commissioner Michael Snyder about marketing and managing Vermont’s natural resources and forests.
Watching recent teacher contract talks in both Burlington and South Burlington, it’s clear that nothing has changed in the bargaining strategy and tactics of the teachers’ union.
I have often written on the subject of embezzlement and its impact in Vermont. I have even gone so far as to note that in some ways it is the best job in Vermont. I now stand corrected: the best job in Vermont is that of our state’s U.S. senator.
Mr. Roper asserts our “wildly loose” interpretation of the residency requirement “does not reflect the spirit or the language of the statute.” I could not disagree more.
As nice as Medicare for All may sound, Sanders’ proposal is a classic example of a bait and switch. Once the consumer is lured by the slogan, he is suddenly hooked by a reality far less enticing.
LePage explicitly threatened to remove any sheriff who refuses to comply with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) requests to extend the detention of arrested individuals suspected of violating federal immigration law.
Chairman Walke, joined by three of the other 20 members who sat mute through the first 90 minutes, offered no opening statement, no context, no conditions, no ground rules — only an invitation to the audience of 60 to “tell us what you want us to consider.”
According to a Philadelphia elections official, hundreds of individuals who are not U.S. citizens have registered to vote in Philadelphia and nearly half of them voted in past elections.
Governor Phil Scott today announced the state will receive a $325,600 grant to help small businesses in Vermont reach international markets.