The current Democratic/Progressive supermajority in both chambers of the Legislature means they can do pretty much what they want with no checks and balances and no reason to compromise. This is a bad dynamic for a couple of reasons.
Ever since the donation some 45 years ago, no official designation for the site’s location existed until now. The park’s beauty is so special that the federal government declared it a National Natural Area.
Either Speaker Johnson is lying to the people of Vermont now about what this law does, or she and the legislators who pushed through this bill have been lying to GWSA advocates for the past two years.
Not everybody believes that driving carbon dioxide emissions down by 80% at enormous economic cost will have any effect at all on global warming. And most voters have probably figured that out.
A student at Saint Anselm College received a failing grade on an assignment about the biblical account of Creation because he repeated the Book of Genesis’ “gendered language.”
How should we Vermonters respond to this potentially revitalizing influx of new downcountry refugees? A lot needs to be said on this subject, but here are seven suggestions.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) could have been talking about Vermont’s Democratic legislature when he declared that today’s Democrats prefer “Declarative Government.”
“The growth of raging forest fires is evidence of worsening climate change,” we’re told. But what if that narrative is completely unsupported by the data?
In this era of racial turmoil and violent protests, it’s good to see something constructive emerging. My leading example is the 1776 Project.
Secretary of State Jim Condos has argued other states have been operating vote-by-mail programs for years without any major problems. True. But the reason these states’ programs work is because they put in place a number of safeguards that are entirely absent Condos’ plan.
With the Vermont Legislature’s override of Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of H.688, the Global Warming Solutions Act, Vermonters will now have two governments and a Fossil Fuel Consumption Card.
What coordinator Thompson makes admirably clear is that her liberal mindset requires that every current cause like defeating the menace of global warming is a special threat to “frontline and marginalized groups.”