Lawmakers recently passed a bill that begins the process for a major expansion of state-subsidized childcare for birth to 5-year-olds rolled out over the next few years. The new law, crafted and pushed by the special interest group Let’s Grow Kids, could have major negative consequences for children, families and taxpayers.
This month, in partnership with Vermont Business Magazine and Best Companies Group, the Vermont Chamber of Commerce revealed 2021’s Best Places to Work in Vermont.
Venerating and celebrating the Founding Fathers is an example of “structural racism,” apparently. That’s the conclusion of a recently released document created by a National Archives and Records Administration task force on racism.
The committee claims questioning its novel “theory” to reinvent America based solely on racial identity is “proof” of systemic racism. Instead of making a case for the blind incorporation of this novel ideology into Vermont schools, they have proved openly why it must be vehemently opposed.
The following is extracted from a little-known source that helps to explain why Vermont landowners and farmers are over a barrel when it comes to the draconian and costly measures called for by Vermont’s Clean Water Act of 2015 (Act 64).
In what is believed to be the first time a carbon tax has been put to a national vote, upscale urban regions including Geneva, Basel and Zurich voted in favor of the CO2 law, but 51.6 percent of voters, and 21 of the country’s 26 cantons, said “get out of here with your carbon tax.”
Vermont’s seemingly unrestrained spending during the COVID pandemic reveals the unsustainable fantasy world in which the current ultra-Progressive Legislature has taken lodging. Throttling up spending and debt ultimately hurts the very people who are supposedly the object of government relief.
A sheriff is not a bureaucratic appointee and does not represent the federal government. Rather, your sheriff is a representative of the people and works for the people of his county. He can be the most powerful defender of your liberty.
Vermont’s capital city canceled Independence Day celebrations under a shallow ruse that the pandemic posed a threat, and instead encouraged Vermonters to attend an African drumming exhibition collecting people from around the state.
Vision statements are not without some aspirational merit, but the Vermont Proposition seriously needs to be put on the shelf.
Are you starting to make the connection between the harms of the incessant drive to achieve with the expectations of dominant white “professional” culture? Do you know how the insidious ways of white supremacy culture play out in the systems and behaviors of toxic work cultures?
Unless the U.S. Treasury makes the rules more flexible and allows town employees to make important funding decisions which county employees are making in other states, Vermont will be at a severe disadvantage relative to other states in regard to how it spends the county ARPA money.