These 3 charts show the importance of economic freedom
Three charts highlight some of the abundant fruits economic freedom brings to people fortunate enough to live in countries where it is cultivated.
Vermont’s ability to affect climate change is a mirage
Many facts make stopping climate change as impossible as stopping the tides. Let me just give you a few numbers to think about when you talk about a sustainable environment.
Why the left is wrong about Jefferson’s ‘wall of separation between church and state’
Groups like the ACLU, Freedom from Religion Foundation, and the American Humanist Association among others have used this phrase as a call to arms in a never-ending litigious assault. Hell bent on exorcising religion from American life, they have no shortage of plaintiffs from sea to shining sea.
Trump issued a call for welfare reform. Here are 4 actions policymakers can take
We have spent $28 billion on welfare programs since the War on Poverty began, yet the ability of the poor to achieve self-sufficiency has actually decreased. Government spends $1.1 trillion annually on the same failed programs while hoping for different results.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has suffered more than 1,000 data breaches
Mulvaney is the first CFPB official to admit the agency’s massive data mining of consumer mortgage and credit card information is vulnerable to hackers and that data bases have been breached.
Increased special ed requirements for independent schools will hit taxpayers
According to testimony from both the public and independent education sectors to members of the House Education Committee, proposals to increase special education requirements for independent schools will ultimately hit taxpayers.
Roper: State education policy is hurting students
The latest test scores for Vermont students are here, and they continue an unsettling trend of decline for our student outcomes.
Meet the man whose hometown defense of the Second Amendment went viral
A North Carolina man who became an internet sensation by speaking at a city council meeting in support of gun rights says he was standing up for freedoms that the nation’s Founders died to give all Americans.
Pruitt to end tactic Obama used to justify massive EPA rules
EPA will soon stop relying on “co-benefits” in crafting new regulations, Pruitt said Wednesday. President Donald Trump’s administration would soon stop the “social cost of carbon” estimate from being used crafting regulations. EPA used the metric to justify the Clean Power Plan, which is now slated for repeal.
California residents being asked to house booming homeless population in their backyard sheds
The number of Los Angeles’ homeless in the past six years greatly increased by 75 percent from 32,000 to 55,000. The number grows to 58,000 if Glendale, Pasadena and Long Beach are included in the statistics.
Keelan: The curse of large real estate projects in Vermont
What has been so disappointing has been the silence of the Vermont State Legislature. This body has turned a blind eye at any attempt to determine how Vermont laws might have been ignored. It is only a matter of time before the next sizable real estate project fails.
Transcript: Gov. Phil Scott’s speech defending gun control for Vermonters
“I understand I may lose support over the decision to sign these bills today. Those are consequences I’m prepared to live with.”