It’s time to read your town warning for this year’s annual meetings. As you do so, please consider what is certain to be the most expensive article you will be asked to approve: your school district budget.
“We want everyone, including students, to understand that if they encounter what they believe is a hate crime that the FBI is here to investigate.”
Conlon’s experience, while bizarre, gives a glimpse into a future with abundant facial recognition devices — one where our personal information can be accessed and used against us at a moment’s notice.
In the past environmental groups have tried getting multiple bills on the issue of forest fragmentation through the legislature, including last session’s H.606, which made it through the Legislature but was vetoed by Gov. Phil Scott. At this point, forest advocates are bullish on their chances of changing Act 250 this session.
In both his inaugural and budget adjustment addresses this month, Scott placed a priority on closing the economic gap between Vermont’s more populated cities and its small, rural towns. The governor proposed $3 million in his budget to help Vermont’s least-equipped towns take advantage of funding.
This bill will codify the right of educators, school boards, superintendents, teacher unions and activists to teach our children anything, in any way, with any props and tools that they chose and without regard or respect to your children, and without parental knowledge or permission.
South Burlington Police Chief Shawn Burke isn’t pleased with how Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Baruth, D/P-Chittenden, has been representing crime in his city — especially retail theft.
The bill would make straw purchases — when a person buys a gun for someone who can’t, already a federal offense — illegal in Vermont. And it would criminalize defacing a gun’s serial number and bar people under 21 from possessing semi-automatic firearms.
Vermont already pays some of the highest per pupil education costs in the country relative to income — making universal school meal expenditures permanent will increase that distinction.
Sen. Dick Sears is not going to argue if it’s better for the child to be home with a parent during the first five years because there is no argument. Except in extreme circumstances, it’s better for a child to be raised at home by a parent.
Sen. Mark MacDonald suggests reimposing a 55 mph speed limit on all highways and a gas guzzler tax on pickup trucks and large SUVs. Confronted with the regressive impact of these proposals, MacDonald said: “We don’t do things based on helping poor people. We do things to save the world.”
Eleven organic dairy farms in Vermont closed in 2021. The next year, 18 more followed. And this year the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont expects to lose another 28 farms. That data is why the association wants to see $9.2 million sent to organic dairy farmers in this year’s budget.