Vermont consumers may indeed want greater fuel efficiency, but you wouldn’t know it by the vehicles they buy. Sales and registration data show they like relatively low MPG all-wheel or four-wheel drive vehicles.
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey revealed he leaked confidential documents to The New York Times relating to the judge’s work in the George W. Bush White House. “I’m saying I’m knowingly violating the rules,” Booker said.
A California-based summer camp whose leaders allege acts of racism in Stowe have a history of instructing campers as young as preschool age to speak out against police brutality.
You may have taken it easy on Labor Day, but our electricity grid worked extra hard to keep the lights on — and boy, does it ever charge for overtime.
As Vermont policy becomes increasingly obtuse through the input of experts, there is only so much well-meaning representatives can do to prevent our government from becoming more informed by expert opinion than citizen input.
Electric utilities in Vermont are speaking out against the state’s solar subsidies, calling the current rules needlessly expensive for companies and ratepayers.
The event has already sparked criticism from citizens of Denmark’s Kolding Municipality, which is providing 750,000 kroner, or $117,000, in taxpayer funds to support the behind-closed-doors event titled “A Conversation with President Barack Obama.”
American newspapers, their workers, and readers dodged a protectionist bullet last week when the U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously blocked the Trump administration from imposing tariffs on Canadian newsprint.
“Sitting during the national anthem is a way of making a broad-based, generalized, and therefore impossible-to-rebut attack against the country that made him and Nike rich.”
Since Vermont’s recycling law passed in 2012, the expectation has been that newspapers, cardboard, cans and bottles must be separated from trash to be shipped off to places like China and processed into new materials. Now the costs are rising dramatically, and policymakers must reassess the viability of recycling.
The “freedom of the press” referred to in the Bill of Rights is a concept, not a class of people (i.e., journalists). It is a fundamental right that applies equally to all citizens.
It’s not surprising that legalization supporters don’t want to see more research. Most of it points to the dangers of increasing public access to marijuana.