For every dollar spent on actual fiber buildout, taxpayers would need to spend $1.20. This is a problem. Don’t get us wrong, broadband is critically important to the future of our state. But this approach doesn’t make sense.
The average daily number of new cases has decreased by 78% in just two months’ time. Since Jan. 12, the seven-day average of hospitalizations has declined by almost 64%. Deaths have been on a sustained decline since then, decreasing by 59%.
Biden’s first executive order directs the entire federal government to adopt an “equity agenda” and to “embed equity principles, policies, and approaches across the Federal Government.” Equity is a nice-sounding word, but it’s actually a masquerade for government-mandated inequality.
What happens when authority is misplaced? This question recently arose with the resignation of George Ambrose, one of four Clarendon school board members.
If the Capitol Police are going to continue to rely on National Guardsmen (there are still over 2,000 in the capital), if they’re going to shoot unarmed people, if they’re going to fail us despite their large numbers and huge budgets, perhaps it’s time to defund them.
When voter fraud occurs, the result is voter suppression — ballots cast fraudulently have the effect of diluting the pool of legitimate votes, while ballots that are illegitimately disqualified, destroyed, or “lost” are suppressed in the most literal sense.
The bill calls for adopting the same enormous goals of home weatherization, but the tax to pay for achieving them has vanished from sight. Instead, the bill asks for $35 million dollars of the money floating around the State House from federal deficit spending.
The issue is framed as one of starving versus non-starving children. The deeper question is whether infinite unfunded social policies will do much more harm than good for those children, starving all of them at some future point when the bills for profligate spending come due.
The inexcusable failure of most American public schools to reopen public schools since they “temporarily” shut down a year ago has taken a heavy toll on the educational progress and mental health of America’s children and teenagers.
Bills like H.366 that seek to recognize, organize and treat people differently based on race are, in fact, systemically racist. They are designed to systematically treat people of different races differently under the law.
Dear Senators Leahy and Sanders of Vermont: Please vote against HR 1 for the good of your constituents. This bill will encourage voter fraud, leave voter registration rolls unreliable and weaken our democracy. It undermines the personal sovereignty of the Vermont voter.
Any honest discussion requires two sides, but “social-justice” ideology does not tolerate disagreement, as efforts to exchange opinions on the “race issue” reveal. Those who cannot win an argument in the light of reason, yell.