Letters to legislators: Rights of the unborn is the civil rights issue of our time
Slavery was the civil rights issue of 19th and 20th centuries. The rights of the unborn is the civil rights issue of our time.
McClaughry: Here comes another carbon tax
Are you ready for the coming carbon tax on your home and business heating bill? The Vermont House is working at flank speed to enact the “Clean Heat Standard” (CHS) concocted by the Climate Action Network, and adopted by the Vermont Climate Council.
John Klar: A talk with Vermont parents about teachers
It is time Vermont parents stopped trying to talk to teachers and began just talking to each other about teachers. There are some terrific teachers in this state — but Jen Ellis demonstrates that some teachers are instead nasty and hate-filled.
Letter: I will be voting no on my school budgets
The last resort in getting the people in charge to listen and to see is to shut off the money supply. I will be voting no on my school budgets. It is past time to pause, reflect and change course away from what is going wrong at Vermont’s government run schools.
Matt Krauss: Young soldiers and America’s progress
The two-day graduation celebration offered a continuing and inspiring story and a visual representation of service to the nation — and the true melting pot of America. It’s something unconsciously ignored or forgotten by many Americans.
Campaign for Vermont: This was a key week in the Legislature
In its Feb. 6 legislative update, Campaign for Vermont offers an in-depth look at what lawmakers and the governor are doing for fiscal responsibility, workforce and economic development, housing, good government and education.
John Klar: Hunting for the Vermont Constitution in two new bills
The latest effort to destroy Vermont culture is underway in Montpelier, in two ill-conceived bills that seek to restructure oversight of Vermont’s fish and wildlife management and ban foot-hold trapping entirely.
Flemming: The inflation tax, as predicted by 1912 economist
Our federal government has a predilection to spend like there’s no tomorrow, with little provocation. This makes inflation itself a pseudo-tax. Who is to say the government won’t dole out more money just because everything is more expensive? Which would create more inflation.
‘Propane protection laws’ will go away when propane does
As the attorney general reminds Vermonters that they won’t be literally left out in the cold by their propane fuel delivery company, the Legislature is making moves to eradicate those companies and all fossil heating fuels from our landscape.
McClaughry: Sanders, Sinema and the politics of party
Bernie Sanders is not, nor has he ever been, a member any Democratic Party. Why is he telling Democrats what to do in a party that he resolutely refuses to belong to?
McClaughry: Granholm’s Clean Energy Corps
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm calls for a thousand highly skilled scientists, analysts, cybersecurity professionals and engineers to somehow promote clean energy, implement solutions to climate change, create good paying jobs, and spur economic growth.
Gregory Thayer: Many people in this Legislature are not representing us
They are overreaching, smothering our citizens, and working to destroy our republic, our Vermont Constitution and the great everyday people of our state.