Regardless of how Emerge candidates performed this year, one thing is clear: women are running the show in the Vermont Legislature. Jill Krowinski will lead the House. Emerge grad Becca Balint will lead the Senate, which will be presided over by Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, another Emerge grad.
Sen. Randy Brock (R-Franklin) will be taking the reigns when new members are sworn in on Jan. 6, according to current Minority Leader Sen. Joe Benning (R-Caledonia). Sen. Brian Collamore (R-Rutland) will continue to serve as assistant minority leader.
For all of the above and more, “The Ten Rules for Business Success,” a recently published book by retired Dorset, Vermont, attorney David Meiselman, Esq., is a timely and much-needed read.
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned on a series of labor policies, which would dramatically cut back on state right-to-work laws and potentially empower fading labor unions, experts said.
President-elect Joe Biden’s broadband plan indicates he will push for more government-owned internet networks, which would be bad news for taxpayers.
A recount held in North Hero Friday confirmed the election of Republicans Leland and Michael Morgan to the two seats in the Grand Isle — West Milton House districts. The recount was requested by Rep. and House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, who trailed by 20 votes in the Election Night tally.
The reason that 2021 is the year to finally disband the Green Mountain Care Board is because not only have they have been benign, they have actually done harm.
Vermont’s general obligation debt and the Vermont State College bonds outstanding each had a “stable” outlook after being downgraded from AAA in 2018, but both were changed to a negative outlook after a press release last week.
Vermont Daily posed a follow-up question: “What software is used to tabulate the votes? Is it Smartmatic?” Winters’ response is printed verbatim below. “Our tabulators do not use Smartmatic software,” he said.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said in an interview published Friday that it would be “enormously insulting” for President-elect Joe Biden to leave progressives out of his cabinet.
Five percent of Vermont schoolchildren — 1 in 20 — are being home schooled, according to statistics received from the Vermont Agency of Education.
Since the Transportation Climate Initiative emerged as a serious policy proposal, the most eager proponent of the multi-state carbon tax on motor fuels has been Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker. If he sees the writing on the wall for TCI, perhaps it’s time we all did.