In his 1968 book “The Population Bomb” biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s, 65 million Americans would die of starvation in the 1980s, and that England would disappear by 2000. None of that happened.
There are people on the registry who have consciously, repeatedly abused children and others who have seriously neglected children in their care. However, there are also people on the registry who were just regular parents.
So far in fiscal year 2023, some 55,736 migrants have been encountered at the northern border, nearly as many as were encountered in 2020 and 2021 combined. If the trend continues, the northern border will experience a record number of encounters this year.
A new bill would require Vermont public school students to take a personal finance course to graduate high school. If the bill, H.228, passes, the mandate will go into effect July 1 and apply to all public high school students graduating during or after next school year.
The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday began its review of House Bill 127, taking testimony from state officials involved in the logistical details.
Maple Broadband is now servicing Cornwall, Middlebury and Salisbury a total of nine customers through its initial build consisting of 25.7 miles of network, with another 62 customers signed up to receive service.
The Statehouse is populated by a climate claque whose only villain is carbon emissions. Nothing else matters to these true believers. They are driven by the fear that if the monster of fossil fuel emissions is not vanquished, the world will end.
There is no chance that this transition occurs quickly and efficiently due to the lack of a labor force. The old heart will be removed, but no surgeon is on call to put the new one in. The patient will die on the table — or more literally by freezing to death in their home one cold winter night.
More than a dozen House Republicans are looking to repeal the Global Warming Solutions Act and scrap the Vermont Climate Council.
Provided Gov. Scott vetoes the legislation, a coalition of Republicans, Democrats, Independents and Progressives will dig in at our Alamo and make one last stand to prevent this short sighted and poorly engineered legislation from becoming law.
The Reason Foundation released the policy brief “State policy agenda for telehealth” which focuses on all 50 states and what they can do legislatively to ensure patients receive top quality health care from their providers.
“S.37 and H.89 propose to codify gender-affirming care as the only type of care for minors experiencing gender dysphoria and incongruence. Meanwhile countries in Europe are now reassessing and changing their standards of care due to negative impacts of exclusively gender-affirming care.”