Governor Jim Douglas endorses John Klar for Orange County Senate
“We need real-world experience. John Klar has the energy and the background to tackle our problems. I hope he’s the next Senator from Orange County.”
Scott jabbed for safe injection site veto
The Democratic candidate for governor and an outspoken progressive columnist have chastised Gov. Phil Scott for his veto of H.728, which includes money to study “safe injection sites” for opioid users.
Tom Evslin: ‘Overabundance of caution is excessive and dangerous’
How many times in the past few years have we heard leaders say that some action was taken or not taken out of “an overabundance of caution.” This usually means that a politician is willing to impose an unknown cost on a large number of people in order to escape the risk that he or she will be blamed for doing nothing.
Steve MacDonald: Trying to replace fossil fuels with solar will require burning coal
It does nothing to lower emissions (if that’s supposed to matter), hurts us, and enriches our enemies for less than nothing.
John Klar: Depoliticizing Vermont’s pension funding
Vermonters must come together on the math and find ways to fund realistic promises to our public servants, who are torn in a tug of war between bureaucrats and taxpayers. We must find nonpartisan solutions before this crisis becomes intractable.
Scott signs workforce and economic development legislation into law
The bill invests $84.5 million of both state and federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to address Vermont’s workforce shortage and provide local businesses and municipalities with resources to grow in the years ahead.
Gov. Phil Scott vetoes ‘safe injection sites’ bill
“From my standpoint, it seems counterintuitive to divert resources from proven harm reduction strategies to plan injection sites without clear data on the effectiveness of this approach.”
What happens to milk from the free lunch program? Some gets pitched or donated, some gets fed to pigs
It was a problem just waiting to be solved and all it took was a few Harwood students asking “why?” to tackle it. The problem? Leftover cartons of milk in Harwood Union High School’s cafeteria every day.
Conservative candidates call for armed protection in Vermont schools
On the Statehouse steps Friday, conservative-leaning candidates running for office in Vermont called for school safety instead of gun control in the wake of recent mass shootings.
Paul Dame: Real solutions needed to stop left’s exploitation of school shootings
Every time a murderer makes their way in to the school, the next day Democrats are on TV to belittle the moment for “thoughts and prayers” and whip out whatever gun control legislation they have on the shelf. If we don’t offer real solutions, we are going to be stuck in this playback loop.
Gov. Phil Scott signs historic housing legislation into law
Gov. Phil Scott gathered with members of the Legislature and local housing partners at the Salisbury Square, a planned affordable housing neighborhood, in Randolph today to sign two historic housing bills.
VISA update: Governor signs universal school meals bill and mascots bill
The universal meals program was established as a pilot to provide cost and participation to the legislature so it can consider establishing a permanent program. Scott also signed S.139 which requires the Agency of Education to create a “nondiscriminatory school branding policy.”