To reach herd immunity, more than 80% of the U.S. population would need to be vaccinated or have natural immunity to the virus. A person gets natural immunity after contracting the virus and gets the antibodies necessary to fight off future infection.
The Vermont Department of Labor disabled its online unemployment insurance initial claim application in response to a sharp increase in fraudulent claims being filed. Upon review of the claims being submitted, more than 90% of initial claims were being flagged as fraudulent.
This week lawmakers were hard at work to ensure Vermont has an insecure election system in which live ballots are mailed to everyone on the voter checklist with no safeguards. Also, a judge said no to hearing more on a mask rebellion in Newport, and an old dispute in Bennington between political foes was partially settled.
The truth is that should S.15 become law, Vermont would have no effective security mechanisms to verify the validity of an absentee ballot. Election officials at the state and local levels admit that they have no way to verify who actually filled out an absentee ballot.
For those of you who truly know what Joe Biden stands for, then his address to Congress earlier this week wasn’t much of a surprise. The takeaway: higher taxes, a weaker economy, and more government interference in your lives.
Activists and critics argue that “Blue Lives Matter” is offensive and even racist, but pro-police advocates say the phrase is intended to draw awareness to the sacrifices that American law enforcement make every day to fight crime and protect their country.
A group of powerful congressional Democrats recently unveiled legislation that would expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices. Rep. Jerry Nadler laughingly described the court-packing scheme in distinctly Orwellian terms: “We are not packing the Supreme Court, we are unpacking it.”
It is interesting to contemplate what an information label might encompass which informed product purchasers of the amount of CO2 and pollution absorbed in manufacturing and disposing of each and every product.
State Treasurer Beth Pearce and some lawmakers from the Senate Government Operations Committee were at odds Wednesday over the proposed creation of an oversight commission to make recommendations on the state’s ongoing public worker pension crisis.
Green Up Day Coordinator Phil Pouech talks about what Green Up day looks like in Hinesburg, and how it will be run this year.
The Vermont Senate on Thursday unanimously gave preliminary approval to a bill that would bring Universal School Breakfast to all Vermont schools by 2022. The bill (S.100) would make Vermont the first state in the nation to provide breakfast free of charge to all public school students every school day.
New Hampshire is set to receive $25 million from the Federal Communication Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. New Hampshire also received $194 million in funding through the American Rescue Plan. Some of that funding can be used by cities and counties to expand broadband access.