Teacher union bosses’ stubborn opposition to any sustainable and workable reform of the way public educators are compensated highlights why they should never have been granted the legal monopoly-bargaining privileges they now enjoy in nearly 40 states.
Border Patrol agents have already seized 1,500 pounds of drugs at the northern border between October 2022 and February 2023, surpassing the 1,300 pounds seized in all of fiscal year 2022, according to CBP data. Agents are not only dealing with a surge in drugs, but also an influx of illegal migrants.
The estimates are that S.5 will add somewhere between $0.70 and $4.00 to each gallon of oil, propane, natural gas, and kerosene sold in Vermont. That means it will cost Vermont sugar makers somewhere between an extra $2.80 and $16.00 to produce a gallon of syrup.
Joyce Manchester testified that one aspect of the bill would be “challenging” to live up to in reality: the social equity promises to protect low-income Vermonters from the spike in home heating fuel prices brought about by the requirement to purchase clean heat carbon credits.
H.89 will protect every unknown person participating in the one direction of “gender-affirming” care, leaving no protection for parents, mental and medical doctors, and others who do not agree.
To figure out what this kind of age disparity looks like in the day-to-day of state politics in Vermont, Community News Service interviewed four state legislators to have a candid conversation about generational politics and perspective.
Speaking Wednesday afternoon during his weekly press conference, the Republican governor said that while he has been critical of the governing body recently, he said the Legislature had made progress this session. At the same time, he remains concerned over the state’s budget.
Gov. Phil Scott on Wednesday threatened to veto the Brattleboro charter change allowing 16-year-olds to vote in local elections.
A bill was introduced to the Committee on General and Housing last week that aims to prevent discrimination when hiring or offering services to the public based on vaccination status.
A news release by Planned Parenthood of New England details a federal court ruling in Texas that has implications for the availability of Mifepristone, a type of medication that apparently can induce an abortion.
We can have the vacation and housing stock we need. It will be built largely with private money — if government does what it should do in keeping the peace and does not do what it shouldn’t do and decide exactly how each property is to be used.
State Treasurer Michael Pieciak, in a meeting of the House Committee on Appropriations on Tuesday, delved into the next stage of 10% in Vermont, a nearly decade-old economic development initiative.