Gov. Phil Scott vetoes Act 250 bill
Governor Phil Scott today vetoed H.926, An act relating to changes to Act 250, and signed Executive Order 04-20 to provide regulatory certainty for recreation trails.
Michigan begins new COVID lockdown after state Supreme Court strikes down governor’s emergency powers
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Director Robert Gordon on Monday issued an Emergency Order under a 1978 law restricting gathering sizes, requiring face coverings in public spaces and enacting limitations on bars.
Trump returns to White House after 3-day hospitalization for COVID-19
President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday evening after being discharged from a military hospital where he was treated for COVID-19 for three days. Within an hour, the president released a video in which he urged Americans not to let the disease “dominate your lives.”
Welch supports election of president by popular vote
Congressman Peter Welch wants to eliminate the electoral college and select the U.S. president by national popular vote, he said on a Vermont Public Radio debate with GOP challenger Marian Berry on Thursday.
McClaughry: Jon Margolis on GWSA
Not everybody believes that driving carbon dioxide emissions down by 80% at enormous economic cost will have any effect at all on global warming. And most voters have probably figured that out.
Protect Elderly Votes project aims to thwart ‘ballot harvesting’ fraud
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the push for widespread mail-in voting and other alternatives to going to the polls ahead of the presidential election has increased the risk of vote fraud through “ballot harvesting,” and the elderly are particularly vulnerable.
Alumni, donors should hit New Hampshire Catholic college’s woke theology in the wallet
A student at Saint Anselm College received a failing grade on an assignment about the biblical account of Creation because he repeated the Book of Genesis’ “gendered language.”
McClaughry: Orienting Vermont’s new immigrants
How should we Vermonters respond to this potentially revitalizing influx of new downcountry refugees? A lot needs to be said on this subject, but here are seven suggestions.
Guy Page: Vermont, the Declarative Government State
Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) could have been talking about Vermont’s Democratic legislature when he declared that today’s Democrats prefer “Declarative Government.”
Twitter to remove tweets that wish Trump dead following COVID diagnosis
Twitter will remove tweets wishing for President Donald Trump’s death following his and first lady Melania Trump’s Thursday coronavirus diagnosis, the social media giant told Motherboard.
Mail-in voting and voter fraud: What you need to know
Should you trust the mail with your vote? Why is voting-by-mail so vulnerable to fraud and abuse? How concerned should you be about your ballot getting lost or rejected?
Poll: Support for school choice increases by 10 percentage points in four months
A RealClear Opinion Research poll of 2,020 registered voters in August saw a 10-point increase in support of school choice policies since its last poll in April, from 67 percent to 77 percent.