With the explosive growth of online shopping, states and municipalities complain that they are losing out on billions of dollars in sales tax revenues, and the laws hindering the sales tax collection, which were made for mail catalog companies, are outdated and ill-suited to today’s economic realities. They have a point.
Matt Viser, deputy Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe, tweeted Thursday that only 11 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the U.S. in 2018. Is that true?
Portions of former FBI Director James Comey’s new book on the end of his law enforcement career conflict with the facts as presented by the Trump administration, Comey’s recently fired top deputy, and both Republican and Democrat leaders.
A member of the Board of Civil Authority for the town of Victory says the Secretary of State’s office has not taken responsibility for the town’s election woes, even after a Vermont Superior Court judge ruled that the voter checklist contained unqualified voters and non-residents who voted in recent elections.
Bernie seems to have no problems at all hawking his dog-eared revolutionary garbage on Amazon so he can make a buck on it. One can only assume Bernie takes his evil, capitalistic profits from his Amazon sales and spends them at the local retail shops near any one of his three houses.
The new report from the Justice Department inspector general concludes that McCabe, the former FBI deputy director, lied to then-FBI Director James Comey, to other FBI agents, and to officials of the Office of the Inspector General. Some of those lies came when McCabe was under oath.
Earlier this month, the Senate Committee on Government Operations reviewed H.910, an act relating to the Open Meeting Law and the Public Records Act. What constitutes an open meeting? What doesn’t? How might that change? Watch video of the committee hearings held at the Vermont Statehouse.
Many Republican Vermonters are reacting strongly to Gov. Phil Scott’s decision to sign three gun-control bills into law, and some say his flip-flop will have serious consequences come election time.
The secretary of state’s website provides that individuals with a subjective intent to move to a town are eligible to vote. The website states, “The law creates a subjective standard.” That is not what the law provides.
It is troubling that those who use substances that are deemed safe today would be held liable should those substances be deemed to be toxic at some unknown time in the future. Insurance underwriters have told me that these conditions will make it virtually impossible to obtain insurance for companies that use chemicals in their normal operations. Lenders have told me the same thing regarding financing.
Exorbitant battery storage costs prevent rooftop solar installations from paying for themselves in the long run, making home energy storage an impractical use for average consumers in the foreseeable future, a new study determined.
The Department of Justice Inspector General report on the “lack of candor” by FBI deputy Director Andrew McCabe documents for the first time the Obama administration’s effort to shut down the bureau’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation.