Keelan: Election Day must be close at hand
Sens. Warren and Sanders, with Congress having an approval rating in single digits, isn’t it time you get your house in order? Buying votes through legislation is getting old.
VTGOP Chair: What’s at stake this November
Vermonters have a choice to make about the direction of our state this November. Will we allow ourselves to be taxed to death, or not? Here, very bluntly, is what’s at stake.
Jim Fitzgerald: I’m walking away from the Vermont Democratic Party
As Einstein said, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. So, I’m giving the Vermont Republican Party a try because Vermont is my home and I want to be able to stay here.
Regressive carbon taxes a non-starter, even in blue states
As Californians prepare to vote on Proposition 6, a ballot measure that would undo the gas tax hike enacted by Gov. Jerry Brown last year, a Republican member of Congress is pushing a national proposal that would counteract the benefits of Prop. 6’s approval by driving up gas prices and other energy costs.
Here’s how safe America is 17 years after 9/11
Since that dark day 17 years ago, the U.S. homeland has faced 104 Islamist terror plots or attacks. Initially, the main target was military facilities and uniformed personnel. But over time, the terrorists shifted their targets toward mass public gatherings.
Campion: When fascists flirt with big benefit programs
Amazon’s corporate taxes are already going to pay for entitlement spending — but hey, let’s not confuse Grampa Bernie here. Oh, and the salaries of the people paid at Amazon are taxed and go to pay for entitlements.
The ugly culture legalizing physician-assisted suicide would create
On World Suicide Prevention Day, Sept. 10, we recognize suicide as the tragedy it is. Yet at this very moment, activists are agitating to expand — not to prevent — physician-assisted suicide.
McClaughry: 16 pointed questions for 2018 candidates
Try out the questions that interest you on your candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, House and Senate. If they can’t give you a coherent reply, look for others who can.
Flemming: Taking back our government from ‘the experts’
As Vermont policy becomes increasingly obtuse through the input of experts, there is only so much well-meaning representatives can do to prevent our government from becoming more informed by expert opinion than citizen input.
Newspapers get relief as Trade Commission spikes tariffs on Canadian newsprint
American newspapers, their workers, and readers dodged a protectionist bullet last week when the U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously blocked the Trump administration from imposing tariffs on Canadian newsprint.
Roper: The media is not ‘the press’
The “freedom of the press” referred to in the Bill of Rights is a concept, not a class of people (i.e., journalists). It is a fundamental right that applies equally to all citizens.
Moore: The leaf peepers are on their way — and that’s a good thing
The changing of the seasons means that the leaf peepers are on their way — and that is a good thing for the state economy. All of those visitors are looking for the unique experience that only Vermont’s foliage can present.