Flemming: What Vermont’s lower emissions have cost us
So long as our emissions are inconsequential in the global scheme of things, we ought to feel more of an obligation to raise incomes rather than to reduce emissions.
Wisconsin-focused study says Green New Deal would ruin America’s dairyland
The Green New Deal calls for shifting energy consumption entirely to electric current. Doing so would cause $200 million in losses to Wisconsin farmers, while clobbering the state’s iconic dairy industry with $2.5 billion in additional costs.
McClaughry: Scrap the ‘common property’ amendment
Nine proposed constitutional amendments, some of them far reaching, have been introduced in the Vermont Senate. One in particular stands out as a mortal threat to fundamental Vermont principles. That is Proposal 9.
Curtis Hier: Attract good teachers and let them do their jobs
Bipolar disorder is a serious condition afflicting nearly 6 million Americans. Unfortunately, it’s also a metaphor for our public schools. Symptoms of mania include rapid speech, grandiose ideas, and wild spending sprees. Education “reformers” exhibit all three.
Roper: Who should pay for Vermont’s pension crisis?
The politicians who created this problem are slow to take up the task of fixing this because the numbers are huge. But who should take the hit: taxpayers or union members? Actually, morally speaking, neither.
McClaughry: Purdue University tuition freeze (or, how it pays to hire well)
A graduating in-state student who has lived on campus the past four years has saved over $12,000 compared with the rate increases at other universities; and an out-of-state student has saved over $31,000.
Rep. Cynthia Browning: I may be running for Speaker of the House
I find that under current leadership in Montpelier politics and ideology sometimes dominate reality. Policies are formed based on pre-determined political promises and rhetoric, rather than developed out of an open examination of the facts and evidence surrounding a particular problem.
Keelan: Embezzled funds and taxes
It is quite demoralizing to honest taxpayers to constantly hear and read about how embezzlers can obtain $20,000 or $2 million illegally and get off tax-free.
McClaughry: School choice and transportation
Over the past 30 years of arguing for parental choice in education, I could always count on a left wing opponent, usually an ally of the teachers union, saying “Rich people can get their children to school, but poor people can’t afford transportation and will be left out.”
Roper: The Legislature’s unhealthy obsession with greenhouse gas emissions
We all want a healthy planet, and we want our government to play an important role in protecting our environment, but what’s happening in the Vermont Legislature today has crossed the line into what amounts to an obsessive, dangerous, and unhealthy disorder.
Stop the presses! No more Vermont daily papers to print instate
The Burlington Free Press called me yesterday afternoon with the stunning news: May 3 would be the last day it could print the Chronicle of the Vermont State House, the newspaper I publish for True North Media.
John Klar: Oh Xusana! Racist property redistribution hits Vermont
Xusana Davis burst out the gate to use government regulations to institute racist wealth reallocation, in the form of transferring land and economic opportunities from whites to minorities, without evidence of wrongdoing.