What do you think, True North readers? Is socialism on the rise in the U.S., or is free market capitalism where we are heading? The answer has broad implications for a range of issues in Vermont, from education to health care.
In a surprisingly accurate report contrary to the establishment media’s recent tendency to downplay Antifa violence, The Washington Post recounted visceral details Monday of the violence the anti-fascists unleashed on “peaceful right-wing demonstrators.”
Neighbors abutting a hop farm under construction in Charlotte are opposing the landowner who is developing part of a 59-acre tract to capitalize on the microbrew craze in Vermont.
Now that the Green Mountain Care Board has signed off on a new independent surgery center after two years of push-back from the local health care industry, HealthFirst executive director Amy Cooper spoke to True North about the long journey and what the approval means for health care in Vermont.
As reported by Tony Mecia in the Aug. 21 Weekly Standard, Duarte faces a $2.8 million fine plus a mandated outlay of as much as $13 million in “mitigation credits.” His crime: plowing a vacant 22-acre field to grow wheat without a Corps of Engineers permit.
The Vermont League of Cities and Towns is asking lawmakers to review Act 46 to hold the education governance law accountable to its promises.
They were voting by absentee ballot in Vermont, deciding who would represent in public offices people who actually live here. That’s vote fraud, right? Wrong! At least according to our Secretary of State’s office.
Anyone watching the network news lately or following the mainstream media would think that Adolph Hitler, the entire Nazi army and a legion of Civil War Reconstruction klansmen had risen from from the dead and invaded the United States.
State Rep. Bob Frenier defeated an incumbent challenger by resurrecting a nostalgic ad campaign from the 1950s. Now he wants GOP candidates across Vermont to use similar ads to win their races in the next election cycle.
In this episode of Vote for Vermont, co-hosts Pat McDonald and Ben Kinsley interview Treasurer Beth Pearce about smart initiatives her office is working on, including financial literacy programs, secure retirement and health care plans, and cleaning up Vermont’s waterways.
Despite Vermont Yankee’s closure, it is encouraging to see that, via the Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund (VCEDF), the plant’s owner continues to deliver benefits to the local community.
Automatic voter registration has passed the six-month mark in Vermont, and the secretary of state says the new program has produced “dramatic increases” in voter rolls.