U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to stop workers from knowing about their rights and also go back to the days of employers being guilty until proven innocent.
Our best hope now is a veto from Governor Scott who has indicated that the bill does not have his support. But after that we need to put pressure on just a few Democrats or Independents to sustain his veto of this new tax.
The purpose of S.234 is to promote “smart growth,” affordable housing, healthy forests, working lands, and reorganize oversight of the Act 250 process. The new permitting process adds “undue adverse impact on forest blocks (or) connecting habitat” to the list of reasons an Act 250 permit could be rejected.
This is more than a betrayal of public trust — it is a slanderous denigration of Vermont, and a betrayal of the supposed farming education purposes for which this nonprofit was created.
H.715, an act relating to the clean heat standard, passed in the State House of Representatives on May 3, 2022, by a vote of 88-37. It obligates the PUC to design the Clean Heat Standard program, and then check back with the Legislature in 2023 and 2024.
Roe’s repeal will not change Vermont’s liberal abortion laws. Indeed, pro-life forces in Vermont may be disheartened — at least Roe had recognized viability and fetal personhood, and the legitimate state interest in protecting those children.
This weekend Republicans held our biannual Platform Convention and had one of the largest turnouts we’ve had for a platform convention in years. Our committee took those inputs and produced a draft platform that Republicans can stand on for the 2022 election.
S.287, an act relating to improving student equity by adjusting the school funding formula and providing education quality and funding oversight (Till Amendment), passed in the State House of Representatives on April 28, 2022 by a vote of 132-11.
What does this growing acceptance of Gen IV nuclear energy mean for Vermonters? Our present and future governors should tell their public service commissioners to begin to identify suitable sites for new small nuclear stations, starting with a field in Vernon which ratepayers have now spent $248 million to prepare.
In the midst of a food-inflation crisis, and while Vermont farmers already lack sufficient slaughter facilities to meet the growing demand for their products, Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets seeks to prohibit on-farm slaughter by imposing unnecessary, burdensome restrictions.
H.715, an act relating to the clean heat standard — Bray Amendment — passed in the State Senate on April 28, 2022, by a vote of 23-7.
The pension bill is now in the governor’s hands after the Senate gave final approval on Friday. He will be faced with a choice to approve a bill he has criticized in recent weeks as not going far enough to address the pension deficit or accept the incremental progress that the bill offers.