Guv OKs $7.17 billion budget, will decide next week on pot, Act 250 bills
Gov. Phil Scott on Friday signed into law the $7.17 billion 2021 state budget, he said at his regularly scheduled press conference.
Flemming: Forest fires and faulty evidence for climate change
“The growth of raging forest fires is evidence of worsening climate change,” we’re told. But what if that narrative is completely unsupported by the data?
Nationwide 911 outage crashed state of Vermont email Monday night
Microsoft still can’t explain the glitch that crashed E911 service nationwide and stripped Vermont state government employees of email and Microsoft Teams service for about three hours Monday evening, state IT officials say.
McClaughry: Woodson Center 1776 project
In this era of racial turmoil and violent protests, it’s good to see something constructive emerging. My leading example is the 1776 Project.
Absentee ballots for November election en route to New Hampshire clerks, voters
New Hampshire officials have started mailing absentee ballots to city and town clerks for the Nov. 3 general election; as of Sept. 22, the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office received nearly 134,000 absentee ballot requests, according to WMUR 9.
Court dismisses gym’s lawsuit against shutdown, says owners don’t ‘recognize the reality of COVID-19’
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the state filed by Rutland gym Club Fitness, Attorney General TJ Donovan announced Wednesday.
Roper: Vermont not ready for mail-in voting says Colorado secretary of state
Secretary of State Jim Condos has argued other states have been operating vote-by-mail programs for years without any major problems. True. But the reason these states’ programs work is because they put in place a number of safeguards that are entirely absent Condos’ plan.
Ilhan Omar’s campaign forced to respond to ballot-harvesting accusations, investigation
The Minneapolis Police Department said it’s investigating allegations of ballot harvesting by Ilhan Omar supporters after a right-leaning group published footage of someone appearing to collect hundreds of white envelopes identified as absentee ballots.
New Hampshire officials accuse woman of vote fraud in 2016, 2018 elections
Mary Kate Lowndes, a resident of Washington, D.C., allegedly used a Derry address to vote in the 2018 midterm election and the 2016 presidential election, but she did not reside there. Lowndes faces misdemeanor charges, including one on a charge of misusing an absentee ballot.
Philadelphia voting equipment stolen from warehouse, election officials say
Philadelphia election officials scrambled Wednesday after a computer and two flash drives used to program electronic voting machines were stolen, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report.
Upcoming ICE operations to target sanctuary cities
Under the Trump administration, cities that have instituted sanctuary policies will be targeted by an upcoming Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation according to three U.S. officials, The Washington Post reported.
Keelan: A government within a government
With the Vermont Legislature’s override of Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of H.688, the Global Warming Solutions Act, Vermonters will now have two governments and a Fossil Fuel Consumption Card.