In the wake of COVID-19, we call on the Vermont Legislature to table all new initiatives and focus on taking care of our own people. We believe it is socially irresponsible to start new initiatives when people are worrying about losing their homes and kids are going to bed hungry.
This year’s crop of graduates don’t have to wait to hear what their planned commencement speaker might have said to them about their future. They can address it themselves by writing their own speech and sharing it with all of us.
Most laid-off workers are eligible to collect unemployment plus a $600 relief check, meaning they would prefer to stay home. But if 30% of Vermont’s restaurants close, where will these people work when the unemployment and relief funds expire?
Vermont, with its small state voting population, is prime country for remarkably close elections, making it particularly sensitive to any improper voting. In 2016, in a Vermont state House seat race, the outcome was determined by one vote out of 2,000 votes cast. In such a race there is no room for any fraud.
The Vermont-NEA members have been hurt less financially than any other large group of employees so far. Let them not claim abuse if they are asked to give a little. After all, it is for the good of the kids.
Your help to get your community’s small businesses through this pandemic crisis will help our local economies emerge stronger and better in the years to follow.
The jobs governor I voted for twice has turned into Governor Fear, Governor Depression and Governor Oops. Believing tidbits from CNN and science fiction, he’s strangled Vermont’s economy.
As Vermonters and the businesses that employ us struggle to get back to some sort of economic normalcy, the Vermont House Ways and Means Committee is contemplating raising $167 million in new taxes to offset lost revenue for the Education Fund.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down that state’s COVID-19 stay-at-home orders because they “exceeded the executive branch’s authority.” Vermont’s Governor Phil Scott has similarly exceeded his authority, both in extent and duration.
If the Postal Service ceases to exist, our elections will be in jeopardy. If the mail delivery system on which all election officials rely diminishes, democracy will suffer.
A financial report that the USPS released on Friday revealed a crucial piece of information that single-handedly obliterates months of fearmongering: The Postal Service has enough resources to continue operations for at least an entire year.
Helping our farmers and loggers will have a ripple effect throughout our rural communities. If farmers do well, that helps the veterinarians, the feed store, the equipment dealers and other small businesses. This is the key to reviving our rural economy.