Tomorrow, Jan. 14th at 3 p.m. the VT House of Representatives will meet and they are scheduled to vote on whether or not to subvert the proposal of the Apportionment Board to create a map of single-member Vermont House districts.
A bill co-sponsored by 61 Vermont House members (but no Republicans) would levy steep fees on vehicles with poor miles-per-gallon performance.
We will best meet our environmental goals by good use of Vermont land. Reforestation Hub shows the size of the opportunity. It’s time to change crops, as Vermont has often done in the past, and turn some farms to forests.
Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine said Tuesday that the Health Department is aware that nearly half of New York’s COVID-19 hospitalizations have been hospital admissions from medical emergencies unrelated to the coronavirus, and that Vermont may have a similar glitch with its hospitalization statistics.
To stop the bleeding and secure the future of its pension system, Vermont must follow the lead of its peer states that have already taken action to move to a defined contribution or hybrid system for new hires.
A fight over voting legislation has reached a climax in Washington, D.C., where Democratic leadership is making passage of laws to federalize elections their top priority by even threatening to “nuke” the filibuster to make it happen.
“We need to bridge the gap between where we are today and where things will be in the months ahead. That’s why we are partnering with the team at the National Institutes of Health to ‘test drive’ the effectiveness of this online ordering and home delivery model, while also surging thousands of tests into our communities.”
New bills would require informed consent prior to administration of any vaccine and prohibit discrimination based on vaccine status, but another would ban parents’ right to opt-out of any recommended vaccine for school based on religious or conscientious beliefs.
“Generally Irritable” host Ericka Redic interviews Vermont Senate candidate Paul Vallerand to discuss if government would be funded better with trusts and endowments instead of taxes. Universities and nonprofits do it, so why not the government?
The lack of information seems an odd oversight, given that Vermont’s Covid-19 experience is often described by state officials as “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
Since the science is now very clear that vaccinated people can still contract and spread this disease, it is bizarre to watch the discrimination against the unvaccinated based solely on fear and prejudice.
For the third year in a row, the right to keep and bear arms will be first on the chopping block. Those who have been around a while will remain unsurprised by this approach; it seems the government in this state attempts to solve all problems through the expropriation of individual decision making.