McClaughry: School choice advances — but will Vermont ever appear on the list?
The Reason foundation’s Christian Barnard published an encouraging story on school choice advances in six states. When will Vermont ever appear on such a list?
Roper: Analyzing the media bias in clean heat standard coverage
Nowadays it seems more and more that reporters see themselves as the Praetorian Guards protecting their personal political agendas and the politicians who support said agendas regardless of the facts.
NH state Rep. John Sellers: Get your kids out of government schools
I strongly suggest that parents get their children out of the public government schools. These schools have become a black box of the unknown and allow staff to keep secrets and openly lie to parents.
Justice Gorsuch: COVID policies ‘the greatest intrusions on civil liberties’ in peacetime
Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale.
John Klar: Free lunch programs plagued by waste, confusion about nutrition
One problem with school lunches has been waste. About 30 million out of 49.2 million U.S. students receive school lunches. But kids throw away a lot of food, especially if it is unsavory. One study reports that K-12 children throw away about half of school cafeteria food.
Paul Dame: Durham report reveals a government out of bounds
The Durham report proved that our nation’s law enforcement agency was far too eager to take the misinformation fed to them by a political campaign, and launch an unwarranted investigation that ensnared the Republican President’s first two years, and cast a shadow over his entire term.
Roper: The weird irony of school mascot controversies
After back-and-forth decisions about whether to keep the name or replace the name the school board decided on a 6-5 vote to keep “Chieftains.” Following the vote two school board members and the school’s superintendent resigned rather than live with the horror.
Keelan: Let’s face it, we don’t care
So it is with the advent of transitioning to EVs and all-electric. We don’t care what the cost is to the environment and to individuals as long as we can claim that we reduce the carbon footprint here in Vermont.
Deroy Murdock: Biden’s border chaos is intentional
Biden and his comrades are betting that these illegal aliens are Future Democrats who will be so grateful for being allowed to invade the USA that they will vote Democratic, flip GOP states Democratic, permanently transform the White House into property of the DNC, and devolve America into a neo-Marxist, one-party state.
McClaughry: Holding down legislative expenses
Unlike other interest groups, who have to lobby legislators for the benefits they want, the legislators themselves get to vote on their own benefits. This was an opportunity not to be missed.
McClaughry: Responding to a pro-Affordable Heat Act backer
I am always responsive to a well argued, fact-based rebuttal of my point of view, but very rarely encounter one. This reader’s was certainly not one.
McClaughry: IPCC’s cyclone error
This is yet another example of unjustifiable information peddled by the great science authority, the IPCC. Don’t expect our climateers to make a public apology.