Curtis Hier: Georgia’s new voter verification ‘essential to the integrity of absentee ballots’
The other part of the new Georgia law that has drawn ire and fire is the ID requirement. But let’s consider the actual law, not the media version of it.
Keelan: Diversity, climate change, ethnic affairs new Vermont cottage industries
If you own or work at a Vermont consulting practice that focuses on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness (DEI), Climate Change, or Ethnic Affairs, you are in the right place for exponential growth.
Campaign for Vermont: Pension reform suddenly looks real
There were major developments this week on pension reform. Word began circulating last week that the Speaker had a “secret group” of legislators working on a pension plan. Leaders of the House Government Operations Committee released their proposal on Wednesday.
Op-ed: Legislative apportionment in Vermont
It’s that time of the decade again! The U.S. Constitution requires a census every 10 years, and this up-to-date population count is used to ensure that our elected representatives in the legislature are equitably apportioned across the state.
John Klar: Proposed Vermont statute perverts history
The “social justice” movement has descended upon the Green Mountains as leftists employ absurd lies to impose glaring injustices. Perhaps the biggest of these lies being spread by leftists lawmakers is that Vermonters killed off all the Native Americans, and must now pay economic penance.
Tom Licata: Racism is rampant in Vermont — in Vermont government, that is
During a meeting of the Burlington City Council’s Public Safety Committee and the Police Commission, it was said that removing Green, an individual who is black, and appointing Springer, an individual who is white, was, in the words of police commissioner Melo Grant, “really beyond the pale.” Oh, if George Orwell were still alive.
John Klar: Vermont law loans money to blacks to sell weed
So much for Martin Luther King. Allocating money based on skin color is racism. Rewarding loans to newly-arrived blacks to sell drugs as “reparation” for the drug war is a whole new reefer madness.
Weiland Ross: The Electoral College protects democracy
The recurring proposals that endorse eliminating or subverting the Electoral College by some kind of “interstate compact” is a bad proposal for many reasons. The Electoral College is necessary to help preserve our democracy.
Op-Ed: The real minimum wage is zero
Federal mandating of higher hourly pay rates places the burden of fighting poverty on the employers of the low-wage workers and the customers of low-wage businesses. It deprives the most vulnerable, least-skilled and least-experienced workers of an opportunity to earn their way into better paying career jobs.
Testimony: Town of Clarendon vs. MRUUSD — Authority to appoint vacancy / Act 46
What just happened in Clarendon is a classic confiscation of fundamental authority, but what makes it unique is it became visible with the implementation of Act 46 when structural changes exposed it.
GoVT committed to taking back government from the clutches of authoritarianism
We heard multiple times throughout the S.30 hearings that these laws are needed to combat “right-wing extremism” and to prevent an “insurrection like we saw on Jan. 6” from happening in Vermont. Every single one of the anti-gun lobbyists hit those same exact talking points.
McClaughry: Union pension bailouts
There are no conditions tied to the funding, meaning the union pension plans aren’t required to make changes or pay any of the money back.