One of the favorite talking points supporters of the Clean Heat Standard, S.5, like to pull out is that it will at most only add pennies to the cost of a gallon of heating fuel.
This program is extremely expensive and extremely regressive. It will cause a lot of pain for Vermont’s most vulnerable citizens. And the worst part of it all is that all this pain and expense will achieve exactly nothing in regard to “solving” global warming.
“Planet of the Humans” chronicles the environmental movement and the controversial role of renewables. Vermont has a starring role. The film is a must-see for all as we work to engage honest conversations in order to achieve real environmental justice in Vermont.
Does the tale “Frankenstein” offer any lessons for Vermonters and the present legislative situation?
Several publications, including the Wall Street Journal, analyzed the spreadsheets and came to the same conclusions: high tax, heavily regulated blue states are losing people and tax revenue to low-tax, free-enterprise oriented red states.
The end of Title 42, the Trump-era migrant expulsion policy, will bring overwhelming conditions for Border Patrol agents trying to secure the U.S. border with Canada, National Border Patrol Council President for the Swanton sector Sean Walsh exclusively told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The bill, S.103, passed in the Senate late last month and is moving through the House. Its core goal is to get rid of the existing legal requirement that harassment or discrimination must be “severe or pervasive” to be considered unlawful.
The bill provides for huge increases in legislative pay. We are about to get the professional legislature Vermonters shouldn’t have to support.
“The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act” passed the U.S. House Thursday in a 219-203 vote. It would require that “school athletics comply with the Title IX recognition of a person’s reproductive biology at birth.” Not one Republican voted against the bill. Not one Democrat voted for it.
The Youth Opportunity Regional Forums begin this week, the first taking place at Oxbow High School in Bradford on this Thursday starting at 6 p.m. Organizations known to be behind politically left-wing climate and social initiatives are the primary supporters of the event.
Are mask requirements going to be like zombies? Right now, they are on the wane, but might they just wake up again?
These politicians know that inexperienced, developing, often confused young people are more prone to peer pressure, are more likely to do stupid things, and care less about future consequences that they can be easily manipulated. And manipulate them is what they intend to do.