In this Statehouse Headliners, UVM Medical Center is performing five abortions a day under the new elective abortions policy, VT pagans are casting spells against NRA and Trump, and the U.S. Attorney General’s Office supports “bothersome” free speech on college campuses.
The Democrats would get the needed pay-down of pensions liabilities they want and successfully avoid the use of one-time funds for ongoing education expenses. Scott and the Republicans could legitimately claim that, when you balance the tax increase with the tax rebate check, they did not raise taxes.
Vermont in the summer is unique. I know because I’ve spent many of my summers elsewhere. Vermont summers are prime examples of the community-building that makes our state strong, and I believe small businesses are at the heart of this.
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu officially vetoed SB 446 on Tuesday. If signed into law, the bill would have raised the state’s net metering caps from its current 1-megawatt limit to 5 megawatts per customer.
The court essentially ruled that all 50 states and the tens of thousands of local tax jurisdictions are now permitted to reach outside their borders and require out-of-state internet retailers to collect and remit local sales taxes.
The second go-round of the Burlington Thought Exchange program took place this week on a rainy Monday evening, attracting about two dozen people who gathered to debate raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
In this Statehouse Headliners, a new Senate budget in the works would insure teachers with state employees, Vermont is not meeting emissions goals, and state candidates have filed for the August primary.
The Student Empowerment Act further broadens 529 accounts, also known as college savings plans, to include “K-12 elementary and secondary school expenses for public, private, and religious schools, including homeschool students.”
Over the past four years states particularly swamped with opioid addiction have seen increases as large as 40 percent in their foster care populations.
In this Statehouse Headliners, the government’s options for detaining children of illegals, why “zero tolerance,” and the seriousness of the immigrant smuggling network.
For 20 years, we’ve been serving, on average, three fewer students every day. Our student-to-staff ratio has decreased from about seven kids for every one adult to four to one. And, property tax rates have increased almost every year. These trends will continue, unless we act to reverse them.
Don’t we have the right to make our own life decisions? Montpelier says no. Our political class finds the clarion call of collective responsibility more seductive than personal liberty.