A member of the Board of Civil Authority for the town of Victory says the Secretary of State’s office has not taken responsibility for the town’s election woes, even after a Vermont Superior Court judge ruled that the voter checklist contained unqualified voters and non-residents who voted in recent elections.
The new report from the Justice Department inspector general concludes that McCabe, the former FBI deputy director, lied to then-FBI Director James Comey, to other FBI agents, and to officials of the Office of the Inspector General. Some of those lies came when McCabe was under oath.
The Department of Justice Inspector General report on the “lack of candor” by FBI deputy Director Andrew McCabe documents for the first time the Obama administration’s effort to shut down the bureau’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation.
“I understand I may lose support over the decision to sign these bills today. Those are consequences I’m prepared to live with.”
Most federal student loan programs do not require a credit check, nor do they require a cosigner. Rather, the loans are backed by nothing more than the borrower’s future earnings with a college degree, but the kind of degree isn’t a consideration in the loan process.
Statistics matter, and they can help households, businesses, and governments make informed decisions. But statistics — particularly selective and incomplete ones — can also be misleading, and even detrimental. The pay gap is the perfect example of statistics gone awry.
More than 38 years after the Department of Education became operational, it has become clear that federal intervention in K-12 education has failed to achieve its primary goal: reducing gaps in academic outcomes between disadvantaged students and their more advantaged peers.
What these folks are actually advocating is that Vermonters live with both the natural impacts of climate change plus the self-inflicted economic wounds of useless climate change policies.
As Vermont looks to advance its own net neutrality rules in the wake of last year’s FCC ruling that rescinded the policy at the federal level, one expert is warning that such efforts will fail, and a trade group is already threatening to sue.
The history of guns, gun control and the Second Amendment is the topic of this week’s episode of “The Right Side of History,” a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens and busting left-wing myths about figures and events of America’s past.
The House Committee on General, Housing, and Military Affairs on Wednesday examined raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, despite signals from the governor that such a measure would get a veto if gets to his desk.
In Vermont, the pros and cons of universal pre-K fall along party lines. Democrats and Progressives largely support it; Republicans and libertarians mostly oppose it. Yet much to the surprise of Vermont conservatives, Republican Gov. Phil Scott has been supportive of state pre-kindergarten expansion.