The carbon tax warriors are promoting yet another version of “carbon pricing.” This new version is the “Transportation and Climate Initiative,” promoted in nine Northeastern states by the Georgetown Climate Center.
The Commission on Act 250: the next 50 Years issued its “potential legislation” document Dec. 14 after more than a year of study.
“Most colleges impose burdensome conditions on expression by maintaining policies that restrict students’ free speech rights,” said FIRE Senior Program Officer Laura Beltz, lead author of the study.
Unmarried couples are having roughly 40 percent of all births in the U.S., marking a significant increase in births outside of wedlock in the last half century.
As the anti-straw crusade appears to gain steam, it’s worth stopping for a moment to examine why such a seemingly trivial matter has become such a big deal.
Vermont lawmakers are enjoying an end-of-year respite while preparing for the new legislative session. To get a sense of how 2018 election results might impact the 2019 legislative agenda, True North interviewed three senior state lawmakers for their views.
A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center review of Vermont’s highly regarded “hub-and-spoke” model for treating opioid addiction concludes that the system is working very well.
My version of “best” is an outcome that would preserve the state’s solvency and bond rating, restrain spending growth, stimulate economic opportunity, deal responsibly with environmental issues and improve the workings of state government.
The five counties with the highest median income are all suburbs of the nation’s capital, according to numbers recently released by the United States Census Bureau.
Earlier this month, a Virginia school board voted unanimously to fire a teacher after he refused to comply with administrators’ orders to use a female student’s preferred masculine pronouns.
The FBI says that Vermont has the highest amount of reported “hate crimes” since the mid-1990s. But do reported hate crimes amount to actual crimes?
In this Statehouse Headliners, the Tax Structure Commission is set to discuss the future of education funding as the Scott administration urges another year of frugal school spending.