The idea behind the Essex Plan is to use the revenue raised by the tax to subsidize electric utilities and thereby lower electric rates. While this sounds like a simple proposition, the legal language illustrates how, in practice, this will be monumentally complicated.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would not sign an immigration bill without funding for a border wall — clarifying some doubt left over from a bipartisan meeting with members of Congress a day earlier about reaching a deal on the policy for the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
A group of Republican lawmakers unveiled Wednesday a bill that pairs granting legal status to younger illegal immigrants with a laundry list of conservative immigration reforms and border security enhancements, including President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.
Marijuana was top priority once again in the Senate chamber Wednesday, and senators wasted no time passing H.511 and sending it on to the governor’s desk for consideration.
The most powerful search engine in the world is now displaying fact checks for conservative publications in its results. No prominent liberal site receives the same treatment.
The Environmental Protection Agency could cut its workforce by half by the end of President Donald Trump’s first term in office.
Activists in Vermont and around the country are preparing for a nationwide protest in the event President Donald Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller, despite a lack of evidence a firing will occur.
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, Gov. Scott must decide if legal pot will impede law enforcement, New England keeps lights on with oil during cold snap, and the assisted-suicide death toll in Vermont reaches 52.
As the union-backed “Fight for $15” movement has sought to enact mandatory minimum-wage increases in states and localities across the country, tax reform seems to have spurred wage growth using a different approach.
Pepco recently announced it plans to use funds made available by the newly signed tax reform bill to lower customer’s energy bills, confirming the GOP talking point that savings from the legislation would trickle down to consumers.
Vermont is a wonderful place to live. But despite everything our state has to offer, ours is one of only three states since 2010 to have actually lost population. What is happening that fewer people want to live in the greatest place there is to live?
One million Americans are getting pay increases because of the tax reform package signed into law in December, according to Americans for Tax Reform.