Sixty percent of Vermont’s homes depend on oil heat. Over the past eight months heating oil prices have marched steadily upward. At the beginning of last year’s heating season, the average retail price was $3.002/gallon. At the end of the season it had risen to $5.052/gal.
First, by gratuitously denying students in-person instruction for such a long period, government schools sent a clear message that such instruction is not necessary. As McCormick puts it, “Schools have lost legitimacy and perceived authority among parents.”
The left claims that voter fraud is non-existent, and that dead people are not voting. But, we have proof that deceased individuals are casting ballots.
Unfunded state pension liabilities have climbed to $8.28 trillion, or nearly $25,000 for every person in the United States, according to a new report from the American Legislative Exchange Council.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recently announced that it, too, will interpret the prohibition on discrimination based on “sex” found in Title IX to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.” Why does that matter? Because it holds food for needy children hostage to the transgender agenda.
Inequitably spending trillions of dollars presents the most obvious failure of the reparations argument — the delusion that money will cure social problems. Those seeking reparations are opportunists who thirst for money and power.
Local candidates have received a slew of big endorsements in recent weeks, including ones from former Vermont Govs. Jim Douglas and Howard Dean, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Senator Kitchel voted “yes” to override Governor Scott’s important veto of “the Clean Heat Standard” bill. That law would have increased the energy costs of growing and transporting food. Some farms’ viability would have been threatened.
New Hampshire boasts one of the strongest performing economies in the nation, according to a new report from the personal finance website WalletHub.
Democratic politicians running on tough-on-crime platforms are making names for themselves in many prominent races, and some have even won elections in deep-blue cities drowning in violent crime.
Ten years ago, Vermont’s much larger press corps was almost unanimous in its liberal viewpoints. In his gushing over VTDigger, Walters neglects to mention the most positive media development of the past few years: the inception of conservative media in Vermont.
Burlington city officials want tougher gun laws and more police spending to reduce the outbreak of Queen City gun violence.