Alison Despathy: S.5 is rotten to the core
S.5 and its clean heat standard forces the thermal sector into the emissions trading trap — a game where big business and bogus environmental justice win.
John Klar: Vermont child care bill hurts child care
Perhaps Vermont should pay parents to stay home and care for their own children. Many of them would earn a higher wage than they earn in their out-of-home jobs, there would be no need for state regulations and oversight, and fossil fuels would be saved — the parent will stay home from work; the child not be driven to hard-to-find daycare.
Roper: Yes, public schools should not lock 5-year-olds in closets
Houser cited data reporting that at least 587 kids are restrained or secluded each year in our public schools, and these incidents are likely underreported. Disproportionately, the victims of these practices are children with disabilities and children of color.
Tom Evslin: I’m from the government and I’m here to help them
Will we have an Occupy Silicon Valley Movement? Will the Tea Party rise again? In this case the #cronycapitalism center is wrong and the anti#wealthfare fringes on the right and left are correct.
Bill Huff: Our heritage matters
“Outsiders,” those looking in to the natural world rather than being a part of it, will never understand how much every animal hunted, fished or trapped is revered and respected by those of us that harvest them. We care just as much about the well being of wildlife as any “anti” ever did.
Roper: The Vermont media lost control of the narrative on S.5
They are in the tank for the radical left’s climate agenda. But they lost control of the narrative on S.5 and, adding insult to injury from their perspective perched inside their ivory bubble, they lost it to a bunch of blue-collar woodchucks driving around in fuel trucks.
Klar: If China invades America, will leftists rejoice?
With a few more years of Marxist social justice such as Biden’s executive order edicts on race, climate, electronic currency, and transhumanism, the Chinese will have no need to launch an attack. They will simply annex America and Taiwan as allied territories, and drop Hunter another check.
Roper: Senators don’t care what their constituents think about the ‘UnAffordable’ Heat Act
Sen. Ruth Hardy’s attitude is, I’m not wrong. You are wrong. And I’m not going to pay attention to you — despite that being my job to represent your interests in state government. This is what democracy in Vermont looks like today.
Despathy: S.5 is a ‘gut punch to Vermont’
S.5 proponents now want to make everyone pay — literally and figuratively. That is the bottom line and it will undoubtedly bring destruction. We must see this for what it really is: a gut punch to Vermont.
Janet Metz: Lawmakers out to get Pregnancy Resource Centers with S.37 shield law
It is mean-spirited and unnecessary to try to silence RPCs and open them up to investigations by abortion ideologues. The provisions of S.37 regarding PRCs should be struck from the bill.
Paul Dame: Vermont Democrats threatened by Progressives
Democrats are now proving that even in the quaint settings of our beloved Green Mountains, the sense of entitlement to power is leading them to abuse the supermajority entrusted to them merely because they are feeling threatened by the minority of the Vermont Progressive Party.
Bernie Sanders is pushing Biden to expand Social Security — and hike taxes in the process
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders urged President Joe Biden to boost Social Security payouts and expand payroll taxes in order to fund the program for the next 75 years, according to The Washington Post.