McClaughry: Election law reforms worth considering
This turbulent election season is now over, at least for Vermont. It’s a good time to peruse a menu of election law reforms that the next legislature should seriously consider.
Todd Fillmore: Give me liberty, or give me COVID?
Despite his obvious good intentions, Gov. Scott’s most recent move is not an advisory or a warning. It is an authoritarian overreach which cuts right to the core of bedrock constitutional rights.
Here’s who progressives want to see in Biden’s cabinet
Justice Democrats and the Sunrise Movement created a list outlining the groups’ top three picks for several Cabinet positions like secretary of state and attorney general and included Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Bernie calls for $2,000 per month for every ‘working class’ American
Senator and possible Labor Secretary Bernie Sanders has upped the ante on proposed stimulus payments for all Americans: he now wants the government to pay $2,000 every month for every working class American.
Governor bans multi-family gatherings, including at Thanksgiving — bars and clubs to close
The multi-household ban includes extended families gathering for Thanksgiving. Celebrating this holiday will be a single-household event, under the new guidelines.
An open letter to AOC
You should feel uneasy, AOC. There was once another group of Americans threatened by authoritarians like you. They stood up — at Concord, at Lexington, at Bunker Hill. In Philadelphia their names appeared on the Declaration of Independence.
Roper: Who’s really racist in the fight over mascots?
Rutland High School is engaged in the latest case of attempted virtue signaling by changing the name of a sports team. The Raiders, whose logo is an arrowhead, are on the chopping block because, allegedly, racism. But what’s really racist here?
New Hampshire working to set up vaccine registry
As New Hampshire fine tunes its blueprint for distributing a coronavirus vaccine, once it becomes available, the state is planning to set up its first immunization registry to track how many people have received the drug.
Opinion: Cancel culture canceled all media credibility
Cancel culture became the weapon of mass destruction by the left to quench their thirst to banish a popular leader, to shame his supporters, and discredit everyone who refused to buy into socialism. They rewrote history to engender race and ethnicity to portray our founders as racists.
Video ‘mockumentary’ describes no-win life as Burlington landlord
Ericka Redic describes how she can afford to keep the Staniford Road home of four generations of her family — by renting every apartment in the house (including her own) and building and living in a “temporary structure” on the nearby Burlington Bike Path.
In February, Biden chief-of-staff nominee dismissed ‘pandemic of fear’
Ron Klain, Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s appointee for chief-of-staff, February 13 tweeted “We don’t have a Covid-19 epidemic in the US but we are starting to see a fear epidemic.”
Vermonters respond: ‘Should mass mail balloting become permanent?’
Perhaps it was something in the air, but a day after the election I started to think, I wonder what the chances are of Vermont extending the mail-balloting initiative for 2020 indefinitely?