The House Education Committee on Thursday voted in favor of creating a work group to recommend new academic standards that recognize the history and contributions of ethnic and social groups and movements.
In this Statehouse Headliners, lawmakers are set to discuss retail pot in the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, while members of the House Human Services Committee will focus on a controversial “fundamental right” to abortion.
Foreign asylum seekers make up the vast majority of Portland, Maine’s population growth and occupy nearly all of the space in its shelters, pushing the city’s abilities to provide resources, according to reports.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has embraced a plan to phase out all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over the next 19 years as part of the country’s plan to shift to green power in the name of global warming.
Two of the most important rules of tax policy: Don’t discourage new investments and don’t discourage entrepreneurship. Wealth taxes break both rules.
If the numbers in the streets were any indication, the Right to Life march on Saturday shows the anti-abortion movement in Vermont is every bit as politically engaged as the pro-abortion Women’s March from a week ago, if not more so.
Pot, psychosis, and violence are connected. Heavy pot users are 3-4 times more likely to develop psychosis. People with psychosis are far more prone to violence when they consume drugs — and their favorite drug is marijuana.
Abortion for sex selection purposes, for organ harvesting, for medical research or experimentation, or even for eugenics will all be beyond the reach of the law. This bill also makes it legal for an aborted child who is born alive to be killed after its birth.
The now Democratic-controlled New York state Legislature on Wednesday passed the Dream Act, legislation that would make thousands of “Dreamers” eligible for financial aid to attend public colleges in the state.
In 2019, 19 states are increasing their minimum wage rates, a trend Congressional Democrats hope to continue by also introducing federal legislation to raise the minimum wage nationwide by 2024.
The ultimate question legislators need to wrestle with now is how much expense, disruption and grief are Vermonters willing to endure to produce no detectable effect on global climate, but only this symbolic triumph.
The Legislature’s paid consultant says the proposed carbon taxes won’t work. Most Vermont emissions don’t come from a handful of power plant smokestacks; they come from hundreds of thousands of automotive tail pipes and furnaces and woodstove chimneys.