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McClaughry: A course change for public sector unions

Not surprisingly, VSEA and VT-NEA are moaning about the impact of the Janus case. But that case doesn’t restrain the unions from conducting their core functions — representing the interests of workers to their employers.

July 15, 2018 in Commentary.
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Fact Check: Are NFL ratings down 20 percent in the take-a-knee era?

President Donald Trump said at his Montana rally Thursday that NFL ratings are down 20 percent since players started kneeling or sitting during the national anthem to protest police brutality. Is it true?

July 15, 2018 in U.S..

Hillary Clinton running in 2020? It sure sounds like it

Clinton has been making a number of public appearances and speeches in recent months, in part due to her book tour. That, along with a recent New York Post article, have caused many to speculate whether or not she will make a formal run against Trump in 2020.

July 15, 2018 in U.S..
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Gun Owners of Vermont ranks candidates on Second Amendment

In a year in which Vermont lawmakers passed controversial new gun regulations, all eyes are now on the electorate — and the electorate’s eyes are on the new Gun Owners of Vermont scorecard, which ranks candidates based on their loyalty to the Second Amendment.

July 13, 2018 in TNR News.
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Statehouse Headliners: Just days after personal pot legalized, sales loopholes and marketing emerge

Remember back in January, when the Legislature was considering the bill that would become Act 86, Vermonters were assured that legal “recreational pot” would just be grown and smoked in people’s homes? Boy, were we ever naïve.

July 13, 2018 in TNR News.
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About 30k Clinton emails were sent to ‘foreign entity,’ but Strzok doesn’t recall specifics

Gohmert said the ICIG investigator, Frank Rucker, presented the findings to Strzok, but that the FBI official did not do anything with the information. Strzok acknowledged meeting with Rucker, but said he did not recall the “specific content.”

July 13, 2018 in U.S..
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Gun owners mobilize to vote Scott, anti-gun lawmakers out of office

True North Reports takes you inside the Vermont pro-2A/Article 16 movement, which is mobilizing to unseat the governor and those legislators responsible for recent passage of controversial gun-control legislation.

July 12, 2018 in Videos.
National Institues of Health

Hansen: Sticks and no carrots — Association Health Plans in Vermont

Vermont authorities and lawmakers (from both parties) are using sticks such as Act 131, AHP emergency rules and the newly enacted individual mandate to prevent us from escaping the state’s failing insurance exchange in search of carrots elsewhere.

July 12, 2018 in Commentary.
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Strzok testifies that his texts about FBI stopping Trump from being elected ‘not evidence of bias’

Former FBI special agent Peter Strzok told GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina Thursday that he was talking about President Donald Trump when he sent the now famous text message to a colleague that he would “stop” Trump from becoming president.

July 12, 2018 in U.S..
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Leahy’s border-zone legislation would ‘hamstring’ U.S. immigration enforcement, critics say

Border-zone legislation recently introduced by U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., is drawing sharp criticism from illegal immigration opponents who say the bill would “hamstring” the nation’s immigration enforcement.

July 11, 2018 in TNR News.
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Roper: Brattleboro’s plastic bags ban is useless

To the politicians and bureaucrats in Brattleboro and elsewhere, I know you think you’re helping, but you are not.

July 11, 2018 in Commentary.
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Trump to stop Big Labor from skimming Medicaid payments, affecting home care workers in Vermont and other states

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a proposed rule Tuesday that would require Medicaid payments to go directly to healthcare workers, ending a 2014 Obama-era rule that let third parties, such as unions and insurance companies, skim off a share of the paycheck.

July 11, 2018 in U.S..

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