“In Australia, you had one mass shooting 50 years ago and they said, ‘No, we’re not doing that anymore.’ That is normally how you would expect a society to respond when your children are at risk,” former President Barack Obama said.
“[The bill] will outlaw the mutilation of minors, it will outlaw the surgical procedure and experimental puberty blockers for minors,” DeSantis said.
On May 8, the United States Attorney’s Office along with the Vermont Attorney General’s Office and the Rutland Area NAACP co-hosted a Hate-Free Vermont forum for the Orange County community.
Democrats and Progressives are just asking you to, as always, “pay just a little bit more.” When you divide all that up amongst 325,000 Vermont taxpayers, just these big ticket items come out to about $700 per person in new taxes.
Any child can see the clean heat standard is a disgraceful mess and an inequitable economic disaster. Unless they’re scared stupid.
“The (change in the) aesthetic criteria would allow us to build more new renewable energy,” said Ben Edgerly Walsh, climate and energy program director for VPIRG. “This is what the climate crisis demands, and that’s why we support it.” To Annette Smith, the amendment is “a very bad idea.”
Democrats spent a $100 million surplus, are spending another $22 million in DMV fees that the DMV never asked for, will be adding a new $130 million child care program that will add a first-ever payroll tax to the paycheck of every worker in Vermont, and plan to add another 70 cents to $4 per gallon to our fuel bills.
South Burlington officials want to eliminate 60 percent of the city’s carbon footprint by 2030, and with transportation accounting for two-thirds of that figure, the city’s climate action plan finalized last October is pushing for more electric vehicles and charging infrastructure.
DeSantis is widely expected to launch a presidential campaign now that Florida’s legislative session has concluded, and New Hampshire will host the nation’s first GOP primary in early 2024.
Multiple shootings and other criminal incidents have taken place in Vermont over the past weeks, and police say they are starting to make progress on investigating those incidents.
On Friday the Vermont Senate passed a bill that includes substantial changes to election laws, including online voting among other provisions.
The Vermont Agency of Digital Services banned use of the popular app TikTok on all state-owned devices, joining more than half the states and the federal government as concerns about the app’s Chinese ownership continue to swirl.