In the late 1980s, Bernie Sanders, as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, acknowledged that a Canadian-style government-run health care system “would bankrupt the nation.”
President Donald Trump’s travel ban will expire on Sunday, and that could be the biggest news yet in the legal controversy surrounding his executive order on refugees and migrants.
A recent report claims Germany is not on track to meet its goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 40 percent by 2020, despite the country spending billions on green energy subsidies.
Once again, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has decided to beat the drum for single-payer healthcare. Will he ever realize he’s beating a dead horse? Single-payer failed in Vermont, the first state to actively pursue the policy.
As late summer weather continues to bring warmth, plenty of sunshine, and scattered showers, fall foliage colors are developing nicely, albeit gradually, throughout most of Vermont.
Over 28 percent of public school educators miss 11 or more school days each year, discovered a report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education policy nonprofit think tank.
Many elected representatives and senators send their children to private schools. Ironically, they also vote to deny school choice to their taxpaying constituents, essentially resigning them to the public schools.
The suits are part of a growing wave of litigation against the oil and gas industry attempting to force companies to cover the costs of natural disasters.
On the one hand, the government has been subsidizing the solar industry with exorbitant handouts. On the other, the U.S. International Trade Commission is now poised to make a decision on steep tariffs that would make solar power so expensive as to challenge the industry’s existence in the U.S.
Sanders is proposing a monopoly over the health finance and delivery systems, and this means there will no longer be any private health insurance. People will not be able to keep their current health insurance plans.
Back in 2007 the Vermont Legislature set a goal to cut child poverty in half in 10 years. A fourteen-member panel was charged with getting this done. The deadline passed on June 30, 2017. How’d we do?
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy claimed Wednesday on CNN that middle and lower-income families pay the majority of individual mandate penalties under Obamacare. Is that true?