S.37, the gender-affirming/abortion services law, intentionally lowers medical standards for abortion and transgender care providers, Vermont Right to Life policy analyst Sharon Toborg told the House Health Care Committee Tuesday afternoon.
This is a special episode covering the Burlington City Council’s passage of a resolution targeting Disaffected and local politicians who object to the mutilation of children through “gender affirming” surgeries and chemical castration.
The legacy of Vermont residential school Kurn Hattin continues to be conflicted, as a legislative effort unfolds to provide an on-line support group for victims of abuse at the controversial school.
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that $47,971,000 in federal dollars from the Environmental Protection Agency will be given in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont. The funding is earmarked for upgrades to wastewater and stormwater systems.
The states with the highest effective property tax rates were New Jersey (1.79%), Illinois (1.78%), Connecticut (1.57%), Vermont (1.43%) and Nebraska (1.36 %). Rounding out the top 10 were Pennsylvania (1.29%), New Hampshire (1.28%), Ohio (1.27%), New York (1.26%) and Iowa (1.25%).
The committee heard from several different perspectives, among them a fuel dealer specializing in clean heat options, a home renovation and construction contractor, and a finance expert. They all shared a common thread — this bill will hurt low-income Vermonters.
Vermont’s development regulations have long been weaponized to resist development — and then relaxed if the development satisfied the regulators’ demands. No wonder we don’t have developers ready to build the housing we need.
Federal agents patrolling the U.S.-Canadian border in Vermont, upstate New York and New Hampshire continue to apprehend record numbers of foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S. from Canada. These are the highest numbers ever recorded in Swanton Sector history.
Senate legislation that would likely reduce new construction of urban, single-family homes will get its first look in the House at the House General and Housing Committee.
Support your local farmer, and stand up for cows, a marginalized group who cannot speak for themselves. When researchers peddle beavers, bison, and wolves, it’s probably time to buy a cow as a revolutionary act.
One would hope that the end of the Federal Emergency on May 11 would also mean an end to, or at the very least an evaluation of, the numerous emergency use-approved products, such as masks, that were introduced without proper scrutiny. However, that is not likely.
The Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing, and General Affairs on Tuesday morning heard testimony from sponsors of House Bill 66 and a representative of the Office of Legislative Counsel.