Having the government force a bunch of small businesses to subsidize their electric bills is good for Ben & Jerry’s business, as Burns notes. But he is not telling the truth when he implies this is good for Vermont business in general. It’s not.
While businesses and workers all across Vermont will be harmed if the $15 minimum wage mandate passes, the repercussions in border counties will be much more severe. Grocery stores operating in New Hampshire will have an unprecedented competitive advantage over Vermont grocery stores.
Who is Gov. Scott anyway? Some say he is a Republican, and indeed he did run under that party’s banner. In thought and action, however, he appears to be an alien Democrat in sheep’s clothing.
A separate report found that Broward County was part of a “vanguard of a strategy, adopted by more than 50 other major school districts nationwide, allowing thousands of troubled, often violent, students to commit crimes without legal consequence.”
On a good day, law enforcement is 20 minutes away from the Porter Consolidated Schools district and its campus with multiple buildings, McMahan said. For that reason concealed carry permits for highly trained and qualified teachers and staff makes sense.
This legacy of moral clarity and courage is the inheritance of every Republican. It was in that spirit that the delegates at this year’s State Convention of the Kansas Republican Party passed a resolution regarding human sexual identity.
There are already highly qualified people working in many schools — ex-law enforcement, former military and even highly competent civilians — who will step up and volunteer to actively protect our most precious citizens. But still politicians refuse to do something that will actually stop an attack.
It comes in many forms. First, there is the scandal of public education, which does not educate African American children.
Our venerable system of local government — where it’s still practiced — calls townsfolk together to debate and make decisions of local and global import with a mix of comity and comedy.
While the right to peacefully assemble is fundamental to our country, no one has a right to cause burdensome disruptions. Surely blocking the road during rush hour and occupying a building of offices and classrooms in the middle of the day are significant disruptions.
For over 200 years, Town Meeting Day has been an important political event as Vermonters elect local officers, vote on municipal and school budgets, and decide a host of other potential local issues, like bond votes or school district consolidations.
The team had located some possible tree candidates, but another barrier to them getting started arose — studies had to be undertaken by the forest service. The studies had to do with the environmental impact as well as any findings from an archeological review. All the team wished to do was to identify a tree and each winter apply the releasing.