Every Vermont consumer and every Vermont business must live in a state of constant awareness that at any time, for any reason, Democrats will at least consider applying any old idea that had died in a previous legislative session to solve a new or unique problem from today.
When Randolph voters hit the ballot box on Town Meeting Day, they will be deciding how to fill four spots on the selectboard and whether to boost the police budget to over $770,000 for the following fiscal year, up 121%.
This unprecedented move to an all-digital library has stirred up valid conflict of interest questions regarding the role of Megan Cluver, Vermont State College System’s current vice chair and chair of the Education, Personnel and Student Life Committee.
Senator McCormack and other legislators may end up owing a public apology to Mr. Goldberg for attempting to trade on his good name and his complex functioning creations by equating their efforts with his successful ones.
This $5 billion cost to provide weatherization, heat pumps, and heat pump water heaters, will mostly be borne by low and moderate income Vermonters. The Affordable Heat act will be the largest and most expensive social program ever paid for by Vermonters.
The question now is whether or not the members of the Appropriations Committee — a money committee —will raise the critical questions about what financial impact this bill will do to people trying to survive Vermont winters.
Given how much high-minded rhetoric has been dedicated to “a just transition” away from fossil fuels, the committee’s failure to even consider reaching out to Vermont’s director of Racial Equity except as an afterthought was revealing.
It turns out the real long-term cost of the Affordable Heat Act, S.5, proposed by the Natural Resources and Energy Committee is $5 billion over a 5-year period as demonstrated in a detailed financial analysis by the Ethan Allen Institute.
I feel an urgent need to contact you to add my name to the growing list of those extremely upset over the decision to close physical libraries in the new state university system.
“The entire bill calls horrifying brutality something nice. This bill is about so-called gender-affirming care — that is, chemical and physical castration and mutilation of children. It passed the House with 24 of 38 Republicans voting in favor of it.”
I have grown accustomed to personal attacks from those who cannot tolerate freedom of thought and speech. The most recent attempt at assassinating my character comes from a fellow Cavendish citizen.
In this video, Gregory Thayer interviews Judy Taranovich, vice chair of the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association, and Manny Fletcher, president, about S.5.