Now that the legislative biennium has wrapped up, elected officials and new candidates are turning their attention to the 2022 election season, complete with announcements of who is running and who is not.
President Joe Biden offered an excellent example of an unforced error when last month when he announced formation of a Disinformation Governance Board, and dispatched Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to build support for it.
Vermont is one of two states that allows incarcerated people to vote. But data show just a fraction of those who are incarcerated use that right. “Vermont is already doing a lot of things that other places don’t do, and we still see these very low numbers,” White said.
The legislative session was generally helpful to independent school interests. A bill to provide free school meals to publicly-funded students in the coming school year has passed, along with funding in support of a program adopted last year to test all Vermont schools for PCB contamination.
Scott was first elected in 2016. A centrist Republican, he is criticized by activists on both ends of the political spectrum but enjoys support from many Democrats and most Republicans.
At a speaking event Friday organized by VT Grassroots, Dr. James Lindsay told an audience gathered at Capitol Plaza that Marxism is having a dangerous influence on American culture and institutions.
A Vermont superintendent came down hard on students who allegedly committed the unpardonable offense of chanting “Let’s Go Brandon!” at a sporting event. If they did not agree to counseling, accused students were banned from all sporting events.
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Republicans can look back and say that we did pretty well considering the limited resources we had to work with. Those four seats we picked up really made the difference between sustaining those vetoes this year, and getting them overturned in 2020 with the Global Warming Solutions Act.
The Republican governor highlighted using historic federal funding to invest in climate change mitigation, housing, economic development, community recovery, critical infrastructure such as broadband, and improvements to sewer and stormwater systems throughout the state.
The legislature passed the first statewide code of ethics, took a step towards fixing our pension and housing crises, and invested nearly $100M into workforce development needs. We also avoided tax increases on middle-class Vermonters and changes to Act 250 that would make our housing problem worse.
As border encounters broke historic levels in April, over 117,000 migrants were allowed to stay in the country, according to a court filing.