The $8 million donation, given over a three-year period, will be used for phasing in the strategic plan to add new master’s degrees, separate the graduate and law schools, create more cross-disciplinary approaches in degrees, and bolster the school’s existing environmental programs.
While Keith Longmore did object to some items during the May 10 BEI meeting, it becomes abundantly clear upon watching that meeting that Longmore was offering constructive criticism, rather than obstructionist comments.
Gov. Phil Scott focused his weekly presser on economic development initiatives, this time from inside the Paramount Theater in Rutland, which received over a third of a million dollars in financial support.
It was only a matter of time until these sanctuary cities tried to give the illegal immigrants they harbor voting rights. In Vermont, the towns of Montpellier and Woonoski wanted that, so the Blue Legislature running the Green Mountain State passed a law. Towns can pass ordinances allowing Illegals to vote in local elections.
Vermont’s adult prisons face severe staffing problems. The same cannot be said for juvenile detention — but only because at present, there is no permanent, secure juvenile detention facility in Vermont.
As the August primary election approaches, Ericka Redic is busy campaigning across Vermont in hopes of distinguishing herself from a throng of others competing to fill the U.S. House seat left open by Peter Welch.
If the charging needs of 5,000 EVs can overwhelm the electric grid during a week of July weather, what do these people think 42,000 of such vehicles will do? Even on a nice fall day? And then, 170,000 of them?
Throughout the past year, the Vermont Chamber has heard from businesses experiencing the rise in retail theft, and we have been comparing the policy changes in other states aimed at addressing this issue, which could be blueprints for Vermont to follow in the coming years.
The zoning updates aim to boost village vibrancy by allowing the development of kiosk-style businesses like ice-cream stands and to-go coffee shops, plus giving owners of historic homes more flexibility in making repairs. Work on such homes is tightly regulated under current zoning standards but planners want to loosen the rules.
Three days ago, we reported that the vaccinated accounted for 94% of COVID deaths. Today we’ve got more troubling news. Children, who were never a vector but were lined up and jabbed anyway, are dying in record proportion to their unvaccinated peers.
Our state budget is out of control at $8.3 billion. Every legislator that voted for it, and over the years, are responsible for this affordability problem. Taxes and overburdening regulations are squeezing every Vermonter.
Vermont’s extremist progressives are willing to lie shamelessly to deceive people from simple factual and legal truths. Proposal 5 is obscene. Roe was extreme. Dobbs is a return to constitutional normalcy.