Republicans can look back and say that we did pretty well considering the limited resources we had to work with. Those four seats we picked up really made the difference between sustaining those vetoes this year, and getting them overturned in 2020 with the Global Warming Solutions Act.
The legislature passed the first statewide code of ethics, took a step towards fixing our pension and housing crises, and invested nearly $100M into workforce development needs. We also avoided tax increases on middle-class Vermonters and changes to Act 250 that would make our housing problem worse.
Scott indicated that when the clean heat standard policy, costs and impacts are more fully worked out, a “revised” CHS might yet win his support. That was not encouraging news to the fuel dealers and their customers who will pay the CHS bill.
Welch has become the congressman from Washington, D.C. He has abandoned the liberal values he held so many years ago, and has abandoned the legacy of independence for which Vermont congressional representatives were justly famous.
Speaking of shootings, Mr. Mayor — at 4 a.m. this Sunday morning a man was shot and injured in the North Willard Street, Burlington neighborhood. This happened in your backyard and on your watch. Unlike the mass murder in Buffalo, this is a shooting that you can do something about.
Vermont is on the front lines of a constitutional battle — the entire state education apparatus has enthusiastically leaped onto the BLM bandwagon to virtue-signal its violation of voters’ basic constitutional liberties.
Following a remarkable summary of the ideology unpacked in his current bestseller “Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis,” Dr. Lindsay presented an award to a Vermont school board member named Elizabeth Cady.
Humility will be required to admit that the Global Warming Solutions Act is a failure; courage will be required to repeal it. Neither animates Montpelier.
“Climate scientist and former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute Dr. James E. Hansen, labor representatives, community leaders, and engineers called for a bold and inclusive climate strategy, embracing both renewables and zero-carbon nuclear.”
S.139, an act relating to nondiscriminatory school branding, passed in the State House of Representatives on May 5, 2022, by a vote of 96-47.
The market has spoken: Disney should stick to entertainment instead of politics in order to stop its nosedive. CEO Bob Chapek picked a fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over a bill to keep non-age-appropriate discussions about sexual orientation out of schools, and lost.
Superintendent Millington conceded on May 4 that the school cannot favor one group over another, then boasted that they knew this in Randolph and displayed the BLM flag anyway because most citizens didn’t know — until this 9-0 Supreme Court case.