The Legislature is authorizing that an unelected body design and implement a program that will have major economic consequences while having no idea what it will cost, how, or even if it can work.
Rep. Elizabeth Burrows sits on Mount Ascutney School Board concurrently with her House seat, both of which she uses like cudgels against young children not her own.
H361, the Brattleboro charter change allowing 16 and 17 yer old voting and office holding, was approved by the State House of Representatives March 11 by a vote of 102-47.
In the last 10 years under the Democratic supermajority, Vermont’s Legislature has developed an alarming desire to separate the decision making from voters — and it’s beginning to get out of hand.
Anti-hunting initiatives in Vermont’s Senate included bills to eliminate foothold trapping, ban the hunting of coyotes with dogs, and restructure the state’s administration of wildlife laws.
Even if homeowners enthusiastically embrace new, unproven heating systems and fuel sellers join the fight against climate change, the Clean Heat Standard will strafe one final group of Vermonters before its destruction is complete: taxpayers.
CRT comes in many shapes and sizes and is happening all around us in our local schools, and at every grade level — and parents are continuing to figure it out.
By what authority does Xusana Davis, or any white liberal, claim to seize white people’s lands on behalf of Abenaki gone for 500 years?
Jesse Sharkey and his cohorts are illustrating once again why lawmakers in Illinois and more than 30 other states never should have handed monopoly-bargaining privileges over teachers’ and other public servants’ pay, benefits, and work rules to union officials.
A bill prohibiting use of “the likeness, features, symbols, traditions or other characteristics” referencing a group of people as school mascots was passed by the Senate.
Vermonters should stand against “enshrining” systemic racism in the Vermont Constitution and vote “no” in November to adding Article 22.
If Vermont is to indeed display the motto created after Tropical Storm Irene, “Vermont Strong,” then it must cease insisting that every single cause/crisis needs to be placed at the top of the list.