In the 18th episode of “Travels With Charlie — Vermont Politics in Real Life,” host Charlie Papillo discusses cell and broadband coverage with Rep. Laura Sibilia and Sen. Ann Cummings.
A independent Democratic legislator who last month on the floor of the House called Speaker Mitzi Johnson “deplorable” now says she may run for speaker of the House.
The politicians who created this problem are slow to take up the task of fixing this because the numbers are huge. But who should take the hit: taxpayers or union members? Actually, morally speaking, neither.
A graduating in-state student who has lived on campus the past four years has saved over $12,000 compared with the rate increases at other universities; and an out-of-state student has saved over $31,000.
A recently released study found that the perception that professors are indoctrinating students is fairly universal at one of the nation’s large public universities.
The electric co-op Washington Electric is proposing to raise its electric rates by 5.95 percent, and the utility estimates that at least 1.67 percent is due to net-metering solar installations.
Among the takeaways from today’s coronavirus press conference were masks don’t keep healthy people safer, and Vermont has no plans to enforce quarantines.
Former EPA Chief Scott Pruitt in 2018 proposed reversing the practice of relying on secretive data in crafting rules. Conservatives have-long lambasted such studies, noting that such “secret science” has been used to craft billions of dollars worth of environmental regulations.
The legislation at the center of Wednesday’s Supreme Court case was originally introduced by a black, pro-life, Democratic female state senator who says the legislation will “make sure women are protected.”
“We oppose this bill that is designed to shift the tax burden from residents to businesses,” David Juvet, senior vice president of policy at the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire, said during the hearing. “It is the wrong road.”
Lawmakers’ explanations of their votes of S.54, commercial cannabis, and H.926, the revision of Act 250, offer insight into why both of these bills drew both support and opposition from members of both the Democratic and Republican caucuses.
Climate activists in the Vermont Legislature keep trying to force even the poorest Vermonters to buy electric cars that can’t drive very far and electric heat pumps that can’t keep a house warm on a cold Vermont winter.