Consumer prices rise nearly 8% causing major inflation fears
Inflation continued to soar in February, making a range of goods and services even more expensive for Americans, according to newly released federal inflation data.
Small businesses concerned as job openings hit record high
Two more economic markers this week raised concerns about the state of the U.S. economy, even as gas prices rise, inflation soars, and the invasion of Ukraine further threatens the supply chain.
Cops will leave Vermont if qualified immunity bill passes, Safety Commissioner Schirling warns
A bill stripping police of protections against civil rights lawsuits isn’t needed and would worsen Vermont’s already critical shortage of law-enforcement workers, Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Michael Shirling told the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 9.
Vermont House GOP Caucus: Letting 16-year-olds vote ‘politically expedient’ for Democrats
“Apparently, Vermont Democrats only feel young voters are mature enough to make informed decisions when it might be politically expedient.”
John Klar: Hunting rights on the block in devious constitutional railroading
The logic being used to ram several anti-hunting bills through the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee would suffice to ban all hunting rights of all kinds, and allow a small minority of partisan influencers to essentially erase state and federal constitutional guarantees.
Meg Hansen: ‘Vermont is not a colony of California’
In response to California’s executive order, a new multi-state coalition — represented by the Ethan Allen Institute in Vermont — has formed to raise awareness about these California-derived regulations and the ICE ban that will negatively impact most of New England.
McClaughry: That big climate rally — opposing the clean heat standard?
What was interesting was that some of the climate warriors present weren’t too keen on what has become the centerpiece of the Climate Action Plan, the “clean heat standard.”
Democrats aim to increase taxes on oil amid record gas prices
Under the legislation, oil companies that produce or import at least 300,000 barrels of oil per day will be hit with a tax worth 50% of the difference between the current cost of oil and the average cost between 2015-2019.
Roll Call: House makes some logging land eligible for conservation
H.697, an act relating to eligibility of reserve forestland for enrollment in the Use Value Appraisal Program, passed in the State House of Representatives on February 25, 2022, by a vote of 83-43.
Carbon ‘credit system’ instead of ‘carbon tax’ in new clean heat standard
Rep. Timothy Briglin told the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday that the proposed “clean heat standard” would incentivize carbon-free heating systems and force fuel sellers to pay into a carbon-emissions-based credit system that proponents continue not to call a carbon tax.
Ericka Redic: Progressive-Democrat policies have failed Ukraine
Whether it’s the security of sovereign borders, the security of the 2nd Amendment rights to bear arms, or the security of energy, it is the “ideology” of these Progressive-Democrat birds that doesn’t fly. It flails. It fails.
Lynn Edmunds: How to know when zoning regulation goes to far
Regional Planning Commissions are acting as power brokers devoted to promoting contractual agreements of self-regulation with local planning and zoning acceptance from your community. Perhaps you should know the price for this service is tendered with the currency of liberty.