Colleges chose diversity over merit. Now, they’re getting neither
Eliminating the use of standardized college admission tests to judge college applicants in order to increase diversity on campus is not working, according to an October report.
Flemming: Driving 10% less by 2050 has hefty price tag and open questions
Our policy makers are betting that an EV technology that is ripe with fire hazards and reduced effectiveness in cold weather will carry the day. If this does not happen quickly enough, a large portion of the public may only be able to use public transport.
John Klar: Progressives get an ‘F’ in Economics 101
The argument made by renewable energy proponents is that the world can be saved by switching a frozen Northern state like Vermont to solar-powered heating systems, and that this is economically beneficial because it will “create jobs.” Both of these are false fantasies.
Tom Evslin: Oil companies profit because we shut off Russian competition
Time for the oil companies and the president to get off the dime. More U.S. oil needs to flow immediately — both to keep driving, trucking, and heating costs down domestically and to preserve Europe’s ability and will to forgo Russian oil.
Gerald Malloy: Vermont needs a snap back into reality after devastating inflation costs
The hyperinflation caused by President Biden’s administration, and supported by Mr. Welch as a U.S Representative, is rapidly eroding peoples’ savings and budgets and pushing many Vermont families into a financial meltdown.
Joe Gervais: We need critical thinking in addressing Vermont’s homelessness crisis
My opponents in this race are lauding the $300 million of our hard-earned tax money they are spending on housing. In the past six years, the housing-first policy has spent an average of $160,000 per homeless Vermont resident, yet we still have the crisis today.
John Klar: Teen girls forced to disrobe in front of males lose their free speech rights
With children in school and parents out of school being censured, the free speech question extends to whether Americans have the right to even state that they believe there are only two biological genders. Existing law is clear that they do possess that fundamental liberty.
Director of Global Warming Solutions Act calls transportation recommendations ‘unviable’
At the very least, when the new legislature convenes in January it should repeal the lawsuit provision of the GWSA. It is not fair or good policy to stick taxpayers with potentially millions in legal fees failed to implement programs that were “impossible” and “unviable” from the get-go.
Letter: Is Vermont afraid of change?
In all seriousness, we do have logical options. Please educate yourselves and vote, unless of course you already have, because you decided your candidate based on the letter beside their name regardless of their history or values.
Opinion: The gender-obsessed left will have to pry my children from my cold, dead hands
A growing chorus of activists and legislators seem intent on taking children away from parents like me, not because we would harm our children but because we would protect them from harm.
Nancy Gassett: Free and fair elections in Vermont?
With all of the varied practices and moving pieces that make up our present Vermont election system, is it a free, fair and pure system without corruption as our Vermont Constitution declares it will be?
McClaughry: Now censorship on climate?
Whatever became of the genuine liberals of my youth, who defended free speech even of unpopular ideas? The progressives, especially the climate change warriors, have overpowered and replaced them with a vengeance.