Moore: The major challenge for Vermont employers today is to find qualified workers
The major challenge for employers today is to find qualified workers. This is perhaps no more obvious than in the health care industry.
Roper: A lot of little (and some big) taxes add up
Maybe it’s time for our elected officials to consider that this approach to policy is why we have a stagnant population, anemic economic growth and trouble convincing young working people to come or stay here.
Todd Smith: The fuel tax
The current bill is, as one opponent put it, “a carbon tax one percentage point at a time.”
How Medicare for All would insert government in doctor-patient relationship
If “Medicare for All” becomes law, however, that relationship will have to make room for a third party: Uncle Sam. And Uncle Sam will call the shots.
The end is near! Vermont budget will lead to ‘planetary collapse’
A large number of our elected officials believe if Vermont does not build electric vehicle charging stations, put insulation in a few hundred aging houses, and force everybody to buy a Tesla, the entire planetary ecosystem will collapse.
‘Exactly when did you think America was great?’ says Eric Holder. Here is the answer.
There’s no doubt that one of the flashpoints of the modern culture war in America is the debate over our nation’s history.
Bucknam: Vermont Republican revitalization
These are exciting times, with intellectual ferment and spirited discussions going on among Vermont Republicans. It is the beginning of a rebirth in the Vermont Republican Party, and ultimately, of Vermont itself.
Roper: Should Vermonters pay reparations for slavery?
It would be impossible to ever truly compensate for the inhumanity of slavery. And how could you ever find a just and fair way to do so today when nobody involved in the transaction has ever owned a slave or ever been a slave?
Klar: Using the doctor-patient privilege to kill
There is nothing abstract about a third-trimester, viable child being killed. There is no more physician-patient privacy right in such a thing than for a psychiatrist to justify a patient who brutally beats their 10-year-old.
Moore: Forests are an important part of our ecosystem and economy
The importance of the forest product industry in Vermont cannot be overstated. It adds approximately $1.5 billion to our gross domestic product.
‘Green New Deal’ is breaking the left apart
Last week, the AFL-CIO sent a letter to the bill’s lead sponsors expressing its opposition to the proposal on behalf of the 13 million workers the union represents.
McClaughry: Scrapping the health insurance penalty tax
The legislative rejection of the penalty tax would certainly show that even a left-leaning legislature has enough good sense not to lay new tax burdens on vulnerable working families.