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Vermont health care mandate bill throws affordable insurance alternatives under the bus

The new health care mandate bill working its way through the Legislature would prevent association health plans and health care sharing ministries from counting as adequate health insurance.

March 20, 2019 in TNR News.
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Statehouse Headliners: State law to eliminate faith-based health cost sharing faces pushback

Health-sharing is exempted from the “Obamacare” federal individual mandate to have health insurance. H.524 would eliminate that exemption.

March 20, 2019 in TNR News.
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Trump says John McCain put him in ‘jeopardy’ by giving Steele dossier to FBI

“You hear about the dossier? It was paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton. And John McCain got it. He got it. And what did he do? He didn’t call me. He turned it over to the FBI hoping to put me in jeopardy.”

March 20, 2019 in U.S..
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Gun-rights groups stunned after court lets Sandy Hook families sue gun makers

The Connecticut Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling allowing victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre to sue gun manufacturer Bushmaster Firearms left Second Amendment groups bewildered.

March 20, 2019 in U.S..
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GOP Rep. Devin Nunes sues Twitter for $250 million

Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes filed suit against Twitter and some Twitter users Monday for $250 million in compensatory damages, alleging the social media platform engaged in “shadow-banning conservatives.”

March 20, 2019 in U.S..
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Bernie Sanders pledges to ban ‘fracking’ if elected president in 2020

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 presidential candidate, pledged to ban the drilling technique that’s turned the U.S. into the world’s largest oil and natural gas producer.

March 19, 2019 in U.S..

Rep. Cynthia Browning: Insufficient state funds?

Vermonters may wonder why there is a continual struggle to fund state initiatives, and why raising taxes is often discussed. One cause of this complex problem is the state’s unfunded pension liabilities for the state employees’ and teachers’ retirement systems.

March 19, 2019 in TNR News.
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Statehouse Headliners: House committees to discuss minimum wage, retail cannabis, raising smoking age

This week Vermont House committees will review bills passed by the Senate and look at new House bills whose sponsors have been waiting patiently for a few minutes of the committee of jurisdiction’s time.

March 19, 2019 in TNR News.
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Dismissal sought in Max Misch firearms case

The first person charged under Vermont’s new law banning high-capacity magazines has asked the state to dismiss the charges under the claim that the ban is unconstitutional.

March 19, 2019 in TNR News.
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Warren wants to get rid of Electoral College

Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced Monday at a CNN town hall in Mississippi that she wants to get rid of the Electoral College.

March 19, 2019 in U.S..

John Klar: Flying Black Lives Matter flags at Vermont schools

I assert that the two paths towards a goal of equality still remain — one is violent, the other peaceful. It is eminently unclear which path BLM represents, and it is therefore incumbent upon our school leadership to explain their position.

March 18, 2019 in Commentary.
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Statehouse Headliners: Senate marijuana cultivation, retail sale bill goes to House committee Wednesday

Tax and regulation of cultivation and retail sale of marijuana, S.54, is scheduled to be reviewed by the House Government Operations Committee at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

March 18, 2019 in TNR News.

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