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Roper: Why all single-member legislative districts?

There are many good reasons for scrapping our anachronistic multimember districts, including popular support for single-member districts, eliminating a flagrant gerrymandering tool, and ensuring fairness and equality of representation for all.

January 30, 2022 in Commentary.

Tom Licata: It’s time to say ‘no mas’ to postmodern Critical Social Justice

This cancerous ideology of postmodern Critical Social Justice has taken root-and-branch in Vermont, embedded within our government institutions and schools, all under the guise of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity.

January 30, 2022 in Commentary.
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Radio transcript: Making sense of COVID’s psychological currents

In this transcript of the Common Sense Radio show, Meg Hansen and co-host Matthew Strong discuss such topics as “what is mass formation,” “how does it apply to Vermont,” and “what can be done to counter it.”

January 30, 2022 in Commentary.

Virginia’s attorney general bans mandatory vaccination on college campuses

Virginia’s new Attorney General, Jason Miyares, has made it clear that mandatory COVID vaccination’s by Colleges is not legal in Virginia.

January 30, 2022 in Commentary.

Vermont introduces ‘Better Places’ grants to enhance public spaces

This innovative partnership provides residents the opportunity to use crowdfunding to develop strategic, locally led projects in their communities and be supported with a 2:1 matching grant from the State.

January 30, 2022 in Press Release.
Wikimedia Commons/Thayne Tuason

Record gun sales fueled by 5.4 million first time buyers

At least 5.4 million people purchased firearms for the first time in 2021, with roughly 30% of all gun purchases going to first-time buyers, according to the NSSF.

January 30, 2022 in U.S..
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House passes gun ban in hospitals, lawmaker confirms staff currently unprotected

The Vermont House of Representatives on Friday voted 93-47 to ban guns from hospitals, require background checks that could delay gun purchases for 30 days, and let health care providers alert police if they believe a patient might commit an act of gun violence.

January 28, 2022 in TNR News.
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Constitutionalist Gregory Thayer of Rutland seeks GOP nomination for lieutenant governor

A prominent voice in Vermont’s conservative circles, Gregory Thayer announced Thursday he is running for lieutenant governor.

January 28, 2022 in TNR News.
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Unvaccinated must be ‘accompanied at all times’ while shopping Big Box stores, Canadian health ministry says

Unvaccinated residents of the Canadian province of Quebec must be accompanied while shopping at big box retailers to ensure they only purchase pharmaceutical products, the province’s health ministry has announced.

January 28, 2022 in U.S..
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Flemming: International Holocaust Remembrance Day finds Vermonters surprisingly uninformed

According to a 2020 study from the Claims Conference, an alarming number of individuals from age 18 to 39 know little about the Holocaust, and young Vermonters are little different in this regard.

January 28, 2022 in TNR News.
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Gov. Scott: Workers’ compensation rates to drop for sixth straight year

The governor said in a news release the rates are dropping for a record sixth consecutive year and employers will be paying 41% less than they paid in 2016. The rate decrease will go into effect April 1 and will save employers more than $8 million in premiums this year alone.

January 28, 2022 in TNR News.
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Federal judge nullifies America’s largest oil and gas lease sale, canceling 1.7 million acres of drilling leases in Gulf

“We are pleased that the court invalidated Interior’s illegal lease sale,” Earthjustice Senior Attorney Brettny Hardy said. “We simply cannot continue to make investments in the fossil fuel industry to the peril of our communities and increasingly warming planet.”

January 28, 2022 in U.S..

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