A few hundred of Vermont’s top education leaders met at Norwich University on Monday to discuss the direction of education amid a looming 9.4 cents property tax hike if the state maintains the status quo.
There are increasing rumblings that some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are looking for ways to give legal status to illegal aliens currently in the United States.
A national atheist organization gave a big “bah humbug” to Christmas with Nativity scene billboards that say “Just Skip Church, It’s All Fake News!”
The results of the tests showed that the TSA screeners failed to detect weapons, drugs, and explosives almost 80 percent of the time. While the exact failure rate is classified, multiple sources indicate it is greater than 70 percent.
According to a recent survey by the personal-finance website WalletHub, when it comes to charities among the 50 states, Vermont has the most charities per capita. Yet the state did not make the top 20 list of most charitable states.
The California study concludes that, “In these industries [food services and retail trade], we project 10.7 and 9.5 percent of jobs will be eliminated as a result of a $15 minimum.” Tell us again how a $15 minimum wage is supposed to help low-wage Vermonters?
After nine overhauls of our public education system in less than 30 years, the U.S. has fallen in world standings for education, to 39th in math and 24th in reading. We are officially behind Estonia. The schools aren’t getting the job done.
The economic numbers clearly have improved on President Donald Trump’s watch, with unemployment down and consumer confidence stronger.
VPIRG will never give up trying to get legislative majorities to tax, mandate, prohibit, spend, regulate and penalize the people of this state until its every imaginable goal is achieved — and that imagination has no limit.
In this episode of Vote for Vermont, co-hosts Pat McDonald and Ben Kinsley interview Commissioner Lindsay Kurrle about the challenges that employers and employees face in the state.
The Trump administration will reportedly remove manmade global warming from its list of national security threats, reversing an Obama-era policy putting the global climate at the center of foreign and national security policy.
A 2017 survey by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation revealed some disturbing facts about what millennials think of communism and socialism.