The idea is about more than books — it’s to create a safe space for self-expression and exploration, Librarian Cynthia Ryle said, at a time when other states are banning books and discussion of LGBTQ content in schools and libraries.
The grid’s transmission capacity would need to grow 60% in less than seven years and grow 200% in less than 30 years. And this is just the grid infrastructure, not what would be needed to power it.
Needing a two-thirds majority vote to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of Senate Bill 5 on Thursday, the House of Representatives voted 107-42 to pass the measure, which one public policy group said could cost Vermonters billions of dollars in the coming years.
S.5 is clearly very regressive, leading race activists to criticize it strongly. But these experienced voices are trumped by children whose brains are undeveloped and who have never had to pay rent, heat or real estate taxes from money earned with their own labor.
Make no mistake. This law will develop a case of mission creep in successive legislatures as progressive gun grabbers in Montpelier find new and exciting definitions for “legal activity” and “civil disorder.” You can count on it.
The public policy group said that while 31% of those polled strongly opposed the bill, only 13% strongly supported the legislation.
The deployments will compromise the security of the northern border, National Border Patrol Council President for the Swanton sector told the DCNF. The Swanton sector is an epicenter for illegal migration, where Border Patrol recorded an 846% surge in apprehensions of illegal migrants in January.
On Wednesday afternoon lawmakers again discussed a school safety bill that, according to the Senate Education Committee’s chair, is getting some inconvenient pushback in the final stretch of this legislative session.
Michelle Bloodworth, president of America’s Power, alleged that the rule was “designed specifically to cause the premature closure of coal power plants,” which she characterized as “one of our most dependable and affordable sources of electricity.”
When these families are sent outside with nowhere to go, they will be exited to our downtowns, to our communities. Our communities do not have the resources to support a mass unsheltering of people across the state.
The Vermont House Government Operations Committee yesterday voted 8-4 to send to the House floor a hefty pay raise, adjournment pay, and state employee-level health care benefits for the Legislature.
One of the favorite talking points supporters of the Clean Heat Standard, S.5, like to pull out is that it will at most only add pennies to the cost of a gallon of heating fuel.