A bill before the Vermont Legislature, S.79, would make Vermont the first state in the nation to have a statewide, government-run, centralized registry of all privately owned homes being rented out. This unnecessary expansion of government into your lives would cost the state over a million dollars each year.
The cancel culture has reached Rutland in the form of challenging the racist implication of the Raider team mascot, an arrowhead. Destroying these symbols, whether burning, burying or papering them over, is a teaching and learning opportunity lost to the next generations.
The smoke and flames should have alerted you that the house is on fire. But, instead of calling the fire department, you sweep up the crumbs, do a load of dishes and grab the fly swatter. That, in a nutshell, is the 2021 legislative session. We didn’t deal with the urgent and immediate issues.
“The firm voice of our honored dead echoes down to us through the ages. It reminds us that each rising generation, like theirs, must be prepared to give its blood, if need be, to protect the liberty of the people of these United States.”
The House passed S.107 with a 70% majority, and so there’s a good chance the majority party can override Scott’s veto. A better plan would be to let the veto stand and reach a well thought out agreement in 2022, as the governor proposes.
Thirteen states do not have a specific response time set by law, 8 states require responses in 3 days or less, 10 states specify a response in 5 days or less, 13 require responses in 10 days or less, and 6 states require a response in 20 days or less.
In a year with record funds flowing into Vermont, you would think we could offer this modest tax relief to our veterans — and their families — who have already sacrificed so much for our nation and our state. Yet, the Montpelier Majority won’t allow it.
More than 41 million American men and women have served during times of war, and more than 1 million have given the last full measure. And if you were to ask any of them why they did it, they would tell you it was the right thing to do. Memorial Day is for them.
The woke left views the military as a crucial ideological battlefield. And much of the brass and civilian leadership at the Pentagon are prepared to fight on behalf of the woke cause. Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, it seems, was an early casualty in this ideological offensive, but likely not the last.
The 1776 Commission reconvened Monday to voice opposition to a federal regulation pushing schools to promote critical race theory, and to call for states and localities to establish their own similar panels to promote accurate American history.
LHS CEO Jeff Silvestro knew for a fact that the creases in those mail-in ballots would create a misread or rejection. Every single politician involved in the meeting at issue knew it as well. And they did nothing.
If a single child is sickened or dies after injection, perhaps we should scientifically conclude — as with COVID — that it was caused by the injection, and hold McCormack and the rest legally and morally accountable for that preventable harm.