In a year when the Vermont Legislature is weighing slanderous legislation that alleges white Vermont farmers used Jim Crow and sharecropping laws to eject blacks from Vermont farmland, or that Vermonters committed genocide against native peoples, Xusana Davis has repeatedly sneered at Vermonters and Vermont dairy.
Vermont dairy farmers have been struggling economically for decades. Now comes a call by the Sierra Club, and its Vermont chapter, along with the organization’s other state chapters, to petition the White House to regulate emissions by dairy farms with 500 or more cows.
“After years with no further offenses, a person’s risk of committing a new crime drops to that of the average person in the general population. Moreover, contact with the criminal justice system has had a disparate impact on people of color and the poor in our state.”
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu’s controversial decision to lift a statewide mask mandate hasn’t dented his popularity, according to a new poll. The University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll, released on Thursday, showed 69% of respondents think Sununu is doing a good job as governor.
For all the corporate denunciations of Georgia and threats to punish the state, almost nothing is said by these same companies about their connection to an authoritarian regime that rampantly disregards the most basic rights of its citizens and puts ethnic minorities in concentration camps.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday took testimony on a bill that would allow guns to be confiscated from Vermonters having a restraining order against them, and potentially without constitutionally required due process.
As Vermont prepares to invest hundreds of millions in expanded broadband internet throughout the state, a low-orbit satellite technology pioneered by the Elon Musk-led company SpaceX could turn out a more taxpayer-friendly option with comparable performance.
According to Sanders’ office, the plan would be funded by taxes on Wall Street, including “a tax of 0.5% on stock trades, a 0.1% fee on bonds, and a 0.005% fee on derivatives.” The plan says that states will be asked to pay for a quarter of the bill while the federal government will fund the rest.
Democrats in the House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday that would make Washington, D.C. the 51st state in the union, a move that would almost certainly strengthen the Democrats’ Senate majority and bolster their ranks in the House.
New Hampshire’s Secretary of State Bill Gardner, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the Democrat-backed voting bill H.R. 1, entitled the For the People Act, an “unjustified federal intrusion” into the way individual states conduct their elections.
Initial media reports suggested that Bryant had been unarmed when she was killed, but body cam footage released by the Columbus Police Department (CPD) revealed that she was swinging a knife at the time of the shooting.
Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos announced the date and towns included in the post-election audit of 2020 Vermont General Election results, which will occur on Wednesday, April 28th at the Pavilion Auditorium in Montpelier, starting at 9 a.m.