So much for Martin Luther King. Allocating money based on skin color is racism. Rewarding loans to newly-arrived blacks to sell drugs as “reparation” for the drug war is a whole new reefer madness.
The recurring proposals that endorse eliminating or subverting the Electoral College by some kind of “interstate compact” is a bad proposal for many reasons. The Electoral College is necessary to help preserve our democracy.
For years, David Coates has been sounding the alarm about Vermont’s unfunded liabilities regarding public pensions and health care benefits for retirees and their spouses. He joins Meg Hansen to explain this crisis and why no one in power wants to deal with the elephant in the room.
Social media companies have policed coronavirus-related content based on information from top health organizations, even as those organizations have contradicted themselves.
Federal mandating of higher hourly pay rates places the burden of fighting poverty on the employers of the low-wage workers and the customers of low-wage businesses. It deprives the most vulnerable, least-skilled and least-experienced workers of an opportunity to earn their way into better paying career jobs.
Vermont could join more than a dozen other states in an effort to undermine the Electoral College system that has been in place since the nation’s founding.
What just happened in Clarendon is a classic confiscation of fundamental authority, but what makes it unique is it became visible with the implementation of Act 46 when structural changes exposed it.
A new study shows New Hampshire ranks third highest in the country for high property taxes. According to findings released by financial website WalletHub, the state has a 2.18% tax rate with consumers paying $5,701 in real estate taxes on a home with a $261,700 median value.
The Senate held its first hearing on Democrats’ legislation to nationalize elections while eliminating voter ID and most other state election safeguards. Former Attorney General Eric Holder testified that voter fraud “simply doesn’t exist.”
It’s become so bad that Border Patrol agents are being ordered to prevent journalists from taking video and pictures of what’s happening at the border. The photos that have emerged haven’t looked good. The detention centers, or what CNN described as “jail-like facilities,” appear to be overflowing.
We heard multiple times throughout the S.30 hearings that these laws are needed to combat “right-wing extremism” and to prevent an “insurrection like we saw on Jan. 6” from happening in Vermont. Every single one of the anti-gun lobbyists hit those same exact talking points.
There are no conditions tied to the funding, meaning the union pension plans aren’t required to make changes or pay any of the money back.