“One thing is clear. The Biden Administration is misleading the American people to impose the Green Agenda,” Behrens said. “Biden can’t achieve his pledge with stifling bureaucratic manipulation in every sector of the market.”
One wonders if some of Sen. Chris Pearson’s contractor friends will invite him back to their barbeques after he pulls this on them. It should come as no surprise that finding Pearson’s “libertarian streak” is a bit like chasing the elusive Bigfoot.
As long as kids are forced into one-size-fits-all classrooms and curricula, there will be angry battles tearing communities apart over what that one size is going to be and who it’s going to fit. So, school choice.
The Vermont Council on Rural Development held a summit last week on the future of Vermont, and the series of discussions ranged from developing a climate economy to educating kids on equity and inclusion.
In the June 3 episode of “It’s News to Us,” host Steve Merrill brings you news stories that other local publications don’t. He gives his views and opinions on the political and social issues of the day.
Letting the Republican tax reductions of 2017 expire as scheduled in 2025 means that a hundred million of ordinary middle class families will be forced to shoulder an enormous spending burden.
Vermont’s education system is revealing its lack of critical thinking skills as it thrusts a toxic, hate-filled, race-based invective onto Vermont’s children. Since educators can’t think critically, parents had better do so.
A bill before the Vermont Legislature, S.79, would make Vermont the first state in the nation to have a statewide, government-run, centralized registry of all privately owned homes being rented out. This unnecessary expansion of government into your lives would cost the state over a million dollars each year.
The cancel culture has reached Rutland in the form of challenging the racist implication of the Raider team mascot, an arrowhead. Destroying these symbols, whether burning, burying or papering them over, is a teaching and learning opportunity lost to the next generations.
Since Tropical Storm Irene devastated many central state farming operations, the Vermont-based fund has made over $2 million in loans to area farmers and food producers to help fortify the local agribusiness economy.
A proposal moving through the legislative process would prevent the state or local governments from shutting down religious services during future public health emergencies. Another bill seeks to eliminate the criminalizing of cosmetology without pay.
Texans opting to vote by mail will have to request an absentee ballot application and provide either their driver’s license number or the last four digits of their social security number. They will have to send that information again once they mail their ballot in order to affirm its validity.