An Empowerment Scholarship Account is essentially a prepaid bank card that parents can use to pay for their child’s education costs — books, tutoring, private school tuition, and educational therapy, for example.
Note to CNN: The leader of this latest staged immigrant caravan isn’t just a “former lawmaker from Honduras,” he’s a socialist revolutionary.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spoke this week about her efforts to restore local control of education, the Trump administration’s priorities for higher education, and the rising support of socialism among young people.
Most Vermonters live within an hour’s drive of Quebec, Canada. There have been elections in the provinces throughout the year, and in almost every case provincial voters have chosen more conservative parties and candidates.
Four states — Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and now California — have enacted state-level net neutrality laws. However, power to regulate in this area is expressly granted to the federal government by the Constitution.
The proposal says to the person who prefers not to obtain insurance: “Your government will not fine you for failing to buy health insurance. But if you are unlucky enough to run up a big medical bill, you will be paying a piece of it off every year at tax time.”
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is warning that the dire costs of climate change are going to be here sooner than we think. Oh, yeah, and the solution is to tear down the global free-enterprise system.
Here’s something else Sanders has in common with Debs — the latter ran for Congress, but was clearly more interested in becoming president than simply serving his home state. Vermonters, take note.
The country-turned-pop star has famously kept silent on politics over the years, but everything changed as of Monday, when she posted an endorsement of two Democratic candidates for office on her Instagram account.
It is ironic that some of our legislators are again promising to pass a very high state minimum wage of $15 per hour. After all, the origins of minimum wage laws were rooted in institutionalized racial discrimination.
Electric car drivers use the roads and they should help pay for them. They can pay at the charging station, or they can pay an annual mileage tax at inspection or point of sale, but either way they should pay like the rest of us.
Next month, Vermont will elect a U.S. senator. Vermonters want a senator for Vermont. By his own choices, Bernie Sanders has ceased to be that senator.