School choice helped this girl escape a broken school, then become valedictorian
The right to choose where your kids attend school should be common sense. But for too long, it’s something too many parents have been denied for their children.
‘Enlightenment’ does not entitle legislators to minimum wage unemployment
As increasing numbers of Vermonters and their legislators learn of the harmful effects that the minimum wage will gave on Vermont’s economy, some legislators will still cast their vote in favor of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Why?
The sex-change revolution is based on ideology, not science
Twenty-eight years ago, the release of “When Harry Met Sally” highlighted one big debate: whether men and women could really be just friends. That question may still be up in the air, but now we are being forced to confront a more fundamental debate: whether men can really become women.
Lindberg: Act 60/68 needs to be repealed
Vermont’s education funding law Act 60/68 needs to be revisited and repealed. It has exacerbated the increase in taxes by creating a fund that is too often subject to raids by duplicitous politicians. Local control, including education financing, could be returned to the local citizenry, where it rightfully belongs.
Sen. Benning: A better way for union contract negotiation
Anyone who has personally witnessed what contract imposition and strikes do to communities, teachers and families knows they are not momentary inconveniences. They bring long-lasting scars and needless animosity as communities polarize into opposing camps.
Gonzalez: Don’t let liberals end opinion diversity under cover of ‘fake news’ campaign
It may be good to jog our memory back to how the term “fake news” arrived among us. Only then do we remember that it first was intended to be used as a weapon in a sustained campaign by liberals to regain their former monopoly over news delivery.
Roper: Net metering program driving up energy bills
The way net metering works is, electric customers who generate their own electricity, usually through solar panels, can sell any excess power they create back to the electric company. The company is mandated by law to buy it — and here’s the cost driver to the average ratepayer — at 21.8 cents per kilowatt hour.
Keelan: Regulatory fatigue has arrived
If Gov. Phil Scott, House Speaker Mitzi Johnson and Senate President Tim Ashe, as well as our congressional leaders, are sincere about curtailing regulatory fatigue, they should listen to those who on a daily basis are required to comply with the thousands of pages of regulations.
Open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: Based on new Commission information, please veto H.511
“Your Commission clearly states that increased consumption will lead to more mental illness, more death on our highways, more child exposure and more state spending to address these and other problems. Governor Scott, please trust what your inner voice tells you is best for Vermont. Your fellow Vermonters know you as a person of common sense who can be trusted to do what is right for them and for their children.”
Carbon tax rebate? Don’t count on it.
Bills can change radically between concepts and ratification, and even after ratification, laws can be changed. If it happened in the private sector, it would be called bait and switch.
McClaughry: Vermont’s sad education test scores
For a billion and a half dollars every year, it seems to me that we ought to be getting better than 50 percent proficiency.
Willem Post: Unilateral regressive carbon taxes a headwind for the Vermont economy
A wise person would advocate putting the horse before the cart — that is, first use less energy, then build out the much lesser capacity systems needed for the energy still being used. This is so simple. Most people get it, but most pro-carbon tax folks do not.