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Key to Vermont Red Wave is ‘brilliantly articulating what you’re for,’ Zeldin says

Lee Zeldin spoke to the Chittenden County Republicans at a dinner in South Burlington Thursday night. Beforehand, Vermont Daily Chronicle asked him, “what can Vermont do to become a more Republican state?”

April 22, 2023 in TNR News.
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Gov. Scott warns of high costs after House passes S.5 clean heat standard

“S.5 will give people two options: pay significantly more in fuel costs or spend thousands of dollars to install electrical heating systems, when most don’t have the financial means to do either.”

April 22, 2023 in Press Release.
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Elementary school principal: We’re using ‘person who produces sperm,’ ‘person who produces eggs’

We will be using the following language with students: Person who produces sperm in place of boy, male, and assigned male at birth; person who produces eggs in place of girl, female and assigned female at birth.

April 21, 2023 in Commentary.
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Scott on potential budget veto: ‘It’s on the table’

The governor appeared on the “Morning Drive” radio show Wednesday to discuss his stance on the budget proposal from the majority party in Montpelier — and he continues sounding the alarm on big new spending proposals.

April 21, 2023 in TNR News.
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McClaughry: Legislative pay grab at the Vermont Statehouse

The bill provides for huge increases in legislative pay. We are about to get the professional legislature Vermonters shouldn’t have to support.

April 21, 2023 in Commentary.
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McClaughry: Renewable Energy Vermont urging passage of bill requiring purchase of renewable energy

The future the group envisions is one where everything runs on electricity, and all of that electricity is generated by solar farms and wind farms, mainly the former. This may seem ridiculous, and it is, when you consider that in Vermont solar electricity can only be produced about 35% of the time.

April 21, 2023 in Commentary.
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McClaughry: Another blow to the administrative state

In plain English, if you believe you are unfairly or extralegally regulated by a federal agency, you now have a constitutional right to have that dispute settled by an independent third party judge — not a judge employed by and accountable to the regulators.

April 21, 2023 in Commentary.
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Short-term rentals play comparatively small part in Vermont’s housing crunch

Vermont continues to see spikes in housing prices with the median home price rising 15% in 2022, according to the Vermont Housing Finance Agency. Communities and state officials alike have spent a lot of time discussing how the growth of short-term rentals in Vermont has contributed to the state’s housing crisis.

April 21, 2023 in TNR News.
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Vermont farms shouldn’t pay local stormwater fees, state says, but towns disagree — and are charging them anyway

Whether towns and cities can charge farms for stormwater utility fees is at the center of a bubbling debate between state agriculture officials and municipal leaders around Vermont.

April 21, 2023 in TNR News.
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Municipal leaders, developers debate affordable housing bill

Vermont municipal leaders and developers have given their support to a legislation aimed at increasing the supply of affordable housing across the state through incentives. However, a decades-old law bubbled back up to the surface.

April 21, 2023 in TNR News.
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Testimony: State Department, CIA worked together to suppress Hunter Biden laptop story to help Biden win election

The investigation into Hunter Biden took a turn this week after a career intelligence official reportedly testified that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and the Biden campaign were behind a letter from 51 U.S. intelligence officials discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop prior to the 2020 election.

April 21, 2023 in U.S..
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Clean heat standard advocates continue to trash high-cost estimates

Advocates for S.5, dubbed “The Unaffordable Heat Act” by critics, continue to lament and challenge Agency of Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore’s estimate that the program will add $0.70 to each gallon of heating oil, propane, natural gas and kerosene.

April 20, 2023 in TNR News.

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