McClaughry: Biden’s new climate czar
Apparently Biden didn’t notice the irony in appointing a climate czar who has his own private jet, two yachts, several fancy houses, and who knows how many carbon dioxide producing vehicles.
A 2020 election redo in 4 states? Here are the details about Texas lawsuit
Texas has filed an unprecedented motion with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking for leave to file a complaint against the states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin over the 2020 presidential election. The motion alleges that changes made in election rules in those states violated the Constitution.
These 3 presidential elections also went into overtime. Here’s how they were resolved.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden will have to get in line for bragging rights. This fall’s presidential election, the results of which the Trump campaign continues to challenge in key battleground states, is hardly the first national election that went into overtime.
New Hampshire cutting taxes on Covid-hit businesses. Vermont?
It would also give New Hampshire’s tourism industry another competitive edge over Vermont’s. Our legislature has not expressed an interest in reducing Vermont’s rooms and meals tax or providing any other kind of tax or regulatory relief.
Slate Ridge and the NFA: the unintended consequences of bad legislation
One might not immediately think that the picturesque New England village nestled in the hills near the New York border might be a setting for turmoil, yet a local feud between neighbors has recently turned into a story that is fast becoming one of the more contentious topics in the state.
John Klar: Vermont church wrongly targeted in COVID tracing
Vermont’s Health Department clearly made errors in Irasburg. Instead of owning those mistakes, Governor Scott has tried to scapegoat a defenseless church.
Hans von Spakovsky: How to make sure the 2020 election never happens again
Fraud can make the difference in a close election. And so can errors and slip-ups by election officials. That is why state officials all over the country need to concentrate on addressing all of these vulnerabilities and problems and finally do something about them.
Walter Williams, R.I.P.
I was saddened to learn this month of the death of one of my favorite economists, Dr. Walter Williams of George Mason University.
Roper: Massive property tax increase on the horizon
While these increases are extreme due to the pandemic, they are part of a long-term trend of unsustainably high property taxes, growing every year, to fund ever higher school spending that serves fewer and fewer students.
Roper: The TCI looks DOA
Presumably, the delays are part of a strategy to hold off until a politically opportune time. It doesn’t appear such a time will ever transpire. Increasingly, TCI looks dead on arrival.
Pro-TCI group accuses TCI ally of ‘anti-regulatory’ activities
One pro-TCI group has accused another pro-TCI group of anti-regulatory activities. They both miss the mark.
Keelan: The posse is formed, so what’s next?
A 23-member posse galloped into being a week before the elections and held its organizational meeting Nov. 20 The “posse” is the creature of the recently passed Vermont legislation, the Global Warming Solutions Act, which survived Gov. Phil Scott’s veto.