Bob Orleck: Senator Sears is a changed man
Not only is he playing politics with gun rights, he is the prime mover in creating an atmosphere of drug addiction that will lead to the very danger he preaches that he must do what he can to prevent.
To combat gun violence, confront mental illness
Are guns to blame, or is it mental illness that’s often overlooked? This is the reoccurring question that we as a nation ask ourselves when innocent children die in high school mass shootings.
McClaughry: What the ESSEX carbon tax would do for Vermont
Eventually, when the carbon tax drives out all fossil fuel and all users have switched (at considerable expense) to higher cost electricity, there’s nothing left to subsidize that electricity. You’re stuck.
Government replaces parent with ‘high quality’ shoe box
There is no more compelling evidence to bolster the warning that government is the problem, not the solution, than in the intersection of Vermont’s childcare and minimum wage policies. The Keystone Cops meets the Three Stooges could not devise a more incompetent mess.
Smith: Second Amendment is as relevant today as in any time in human history
An armed citizenry alone is able to protect itself from tyranny. Or, as George Mason argued to Virginia’s ratification convention in 1788 — to disarm a nation is surely to set the conditions to enslave it.
Roper: ESSEX carbon tax robs poor to pay rich
Wealthy Vermonters who have the financial wherewithal to install solar panels, buy Priuses and live in newer, better insulated housing can take full advantage of the ESSEX plan.
Parents lost custody of teenager who wants to ‘transition’ to a boy: What you need to know
The most helpful therapies do not try to remake the body to conform with thoughts and feelings — which is impossible — but rather to help people find healthy ways to manage this tension and move toward accepting the reality of their bodily selves.
Roper: Local Vermont elections affected by fraudulent votes
The point at issue here is that the BCA contended that these second-home owners were eligible to vote because they had an “intent” to establish a primary domicile in the district at some point in the future, owned property, and that was enough to give them status to vote. The BCA believed this despite the law.
The ESSEX Plan: Symbolic environmentalism that will impose economic harm on Vermonters
Enacting the ESSEX Plan will damage Vermont’s economy, place an undue and unfair burden on lower-income Vermonters and encourage more people to leave Vermont in search of better economic opportunity.
Sen. Joe Benning: Guns and sense
I’ve heard from many Vermonters demanding universal background checks, yet virtually every mass shooting we’ve had in this country has involved a shooter who passed a background check. This includes the Nevada concert shooter, the Florida school shooter, the South Carolina church shooter, and the Vermont teenager who thankfully was intercepted.
Moore: Local Option Tax not right for Barre City
The LOT is a tax increase plain and simple. It is bad for Barre citizens. It is bad for Barre businesses. It is bad for Barre visitors. It is bad for Barre, period.
Higher Education Scam: Why college in the United States is so expensive
Universities that offer less faculty compensation, perform less research and have lower tuition rates are more likely to have engaged and effective professors.