OneCare Vermont is a scam. It has presented zero evidence of efficacy, even as its overspending has been well documented. Administrative expenses have swollen while patient care has declined. When will it be ended, like the bad dream it has been?
So, no revenue, no interested partners, no logistical capability, no ideas, and no public support. Perhaps this is why a number of key legislative-appointee council members are asking not to return when their terms are up next month. These folks are fleeing the sinking ship.
Firefighters and other workers involved in the rescue and recovery efforts suffer from breathing difficulties, sinusitis, pneumonia, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. These symptoms have exacerbated into COPD/ emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma, and lung scarring in one-fifth cases.
I have not and will never forget the events that occurred that fateful day 21 years ago, and it’s time the Biden Administration gets back to our shared commitment to never allow an event of the same magnitude to happen again.
Let’s not forget that government officials have already done this — illegally forcing honest gun owners to relinquish their rights.
By the third trimester (at least) it is impossible not to see that a fetus is a separate human being from the mother who is carrying her. Prop 5/Article 22 fails to consider the child’s claim to life at all.
For many years I paid little or no attention to the different understanding most people have about our form of governance. However, in recent years it began to bother me when people continually expressed concern for “our democracy.”
After 48 years in Washington, Senator Patrick Leahy’s retirement announcement was a cataclysmic strike for Vermont. The second shoe will drop when we hear Senator Sanders is ready to come home. Soon, 79 years of seniority on Capitol Hill will have evaporated. Then where are we?
In the language of the draft released by Manchin’s office this must be “a balanced list of project types, including: critical minerals, nuclear, hydrogen, fossil fuels, electric transmission, renewables, and carbon capture, sequestration, storage, and removal.”
In EAI’s August survey asking “How do you anticipate housing shortage situation to progress?” 82% of respondents chose, “This is a long term, self-inflicted trend that is here to stay unless Vermont officials reform local zoning laws and Act 250 restrictions.”
Regardless of where you stand on the issue of sex work, the reality is that wherever prostitution is decriminalized, there is a subsequent increase in drug and gang activity, abuse and trafficking. An industry with this much human suffering related to it isn’t in our best interest.
As we celebrate Labor Day it’s a good time to reflect on how the Republican Party’s relationship to Labor has changed in recent years. It used to be convention wisdom that Labor Union members were a lock to vote Democrat.