Black unemployment rate falls to record low 6.8 percent under Trump
That’s the lowest black unemployment has been since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking unemployment in 1972.
Angela Merkel lectured Trump on global warming, now Germany abandoning its climate goal
Germany will abandon its 2020 national global warming goal, a huge embarrassment to Chancellor Angela Merkel, as part of a deal to put together a coalition government in the wake of September’s elections.
Education and marijuana top early legislative agenda at Statehouse
High education costs, pre-K administration and marijuana legalization were priority issues for lawmakers in their first week back at the Statehouse for the 2018 legislative session.
Moore: Chamber’s position on energy, health care, permitting and transportation
The fact is that “profit” is not a four-letter word. Free enterprise is what built the world’s biggest economy, and it is free enterprise that has provided the means for success of individuals and businesses. Burdensome taxation, employer mandates and over-regulation of business stifles business expansion and economic growth.
Town plans subservient to central planners
When we forget that the success of our liberty was based on the rights of the individual, we forfeit our property and freedom to choose, our form of government becomes more collective, and agendas of a few will operate in parallel with it until the individual does not exist.
Roper: If our leaders really want more people to move here
It is time for Montpelier to give up trying to find new things to do to attract new citizens and start figuring out what it is they are doing that drives people away — and stop.
Scott trains focus on taxes, skilled jobs and housing in state address
Memorable lines from the governor’s second address to the state suggest that he will once again oppose increases in taxes, fees and spending while promoting skilled jobs and affordable housing.
Governor sets education fund deficit and opioid crisis as priorities
While House lawmakers occupied themselves with marijuana legalization this week, Gov. Phil Scott stayed true to familiar campaign themes, pledging to address a hole in the education budget while keeping up the fight against opioids.
Deerfield Wind turbines up and operating, but renewables lagging in cold temps
The controversial Deerfield Wind project that took over 10 years and $7.5 million to complete is now generating power, but regional data shows that renewables are not producing as much energy in these cold winter months as some might have hoped.
Do ‘Dreamers’ have right to demand amnesty?
Far from being in “the shadows,” as we are constantly told, these illegal immigrants are unabashedly out in the open at these demonstrations.
FBI takes aim at the Clinton Foundation
The Justice Department is investigating the Clinton Foundation to see whether or not it participated in any pay-to-play or other illegal activities while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, The Hill reports.
Vermont House passes marijuana bill as Sessions prepares federal crackdown on pot states
In yet another chapter of the ongoing saga of marijuana legalization efforts in Vermont, the House on Thursday passed H.511, which allows for ownership of up to an ounce of marijuana and home cultivation of two mature and four immature cannabis plants.