A Defined Benefit Plan freeze must be implemented. This means no more plan participants will be admitted into the plan. Concurrent with the freeze, a Defined Contribution Plan would be offered to not only new hires, but also to existing Defined Benefit Plan participants.
In the 1990s, the average THC content in marijuana flower was less than 4%. It is now about 15% — and we’re talking about products with a potency of up to 80 or 90% THC.
A renowned and respected psychotherapist had postulated that we might need to reconsider the unconscious response to lockdowns and mandates — and his ideas were summarily dismissed by the voice of the state.
The vote is likely going to be first thing tomorrow morning so it is imperative you call today and make sure to get that message to them as soon as possible. Keep it simple.
Therein lies the problem. We meet, we talk, we pass legislation, and in the end, we still don’t have the housing so desperately sought not only in southwestern Vermont but throughout the state.
School enrollment is sharply up this year in Right to Work Florida, South Carolina, Arizona and Utah, as well as in several other states that defied the union bosses and kept schools open, by and large, throughout 2020-21. In Florida alone, enrollment is up a whopping 4%, or 111,000, this year.
The legislature overrode Governor Scott’s veto of the pension bill unanimously. Bills moving forward include housing and workforce development, economic development, and student weighting. Universal school meals were also approved by the Senate this week.
Democrats’ reckless spending has left the Fed with no other choice. Even Janet Yellen admitted this week that Biden’s spending caused inflation. The rate hike is the bill coming due for the excessive government spending that Democrats promised would be a free lunch.
Vermont is the East Coast’s California. Its liberals have that particular something — the urge to control everything not just because they should but because they can.
What is wrong is to think that “the science” should go without challenge; that would be catastrophic. What is wrong is to think that any legion of fact-checkers can decide what we ought to read; that is also catastrophic. Science flourishes on challenge.
They are so furious with people who use fossil fuels that one Democrat running for Congress swore that she would “tax the hell out of” fossil fuels. Why are Democrats using such aggressive language with Vermonters who are just trying to get to work and heat their homes?
Imagine my surprise when I read again today another angry commentary written by Ms. Emery not only bashing Senator Chittenden again but then trying to take credit for all what she didn’t do.