The Stamford Selectboard is consulting with its lawyer on how to respond to Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan, who claims the town doesn’t have the authority to assert autonomy.
As Vermont’s budgetary black hole beckons, our legislators and Gov. Phil Scott will soon be forced to reckon with their choice to close more businesses than average.
Know that as this new Legislature begins debating environmental policies — especially around the GWSA, the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI), and the general desire to tax carbon — establishing the permanent misery of economic lockdowns is the goal.
Three months into the flu season, Vermont has yet to record a death by traditional influenza, the Vermont Health Department confirmed Monday, Jan. 4.
With few exceptions, union officials have fought school reopenings tooth and nail. Their fierce resistance would be reasonable if COVID-19 posted a major risk to schoolchildren or to educators themselves. But the fact is that the risk to kids is very low.
Gov. Phil Scott said Thursday at a press conference he and his legal team “feel we are on very solid ground constitutionally” after the Town of Stamford voted Tuesday night to defy the governor’s emergency pandemic orders.
The 2020 word of the year is “lockdown,” which was used more than a quarter of a million times amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Collins Dictionary.
The Selectboard of the Bennington County Town of Stamford voted Dec. 17 to affirm the constitutions of Vermont and the United States, in response to the governor’s restrictions on gathering for worship, work and socializing.
Teachers unions largely won’t explain why they want to keep public education virtual, even though studies have suggested that schools aren’t coronavirus super-spreaders as originally expected and that students’ performance have suffered in remote environments.
Private sector businesses are stepping up to help the homeless this year, and Vermonters are more in need than ever due to coronavirus regulations put in place by Republican Gov. Phil Scott.
Vermont’s response to the coronavirus is forcing holiday-focused businesses to modify their operations, but tree farms are doing everything they can to keep the spirit of Christmas alive.
The Covid-19 crisis is an opportunity to accomplish longterm economic development and legislative goals, Vermont Democratic lawmakers said in a Dec. 5 caucus meeting.