U.S. officials are mimicking China’s efforts at tracking and attempting to destroy coronavirus while civil rights activists warn the plans could wreak havoc in a post-virus world.
The permitted processes include mailing a ballot proactively to every active or registered voter, implementing a “drive-up” voting procedure, and holding a polling location outside, among other things.
Gov. Phil Scott on Friday announced a loosening of restrictions on businesses, but many will still not be able to operate as they did before the shutdown.
There are so many questions to be asked by those who are curious and restless. The ultimate one is the hardest to ask: Is the evidence now conclusive that America is no longer the “home of the brave”?
A recent announcement to close three rural Vermont State College campuses (since withdrawn, for now) raises the question, “does Chittenden County govern the rest of Vermont?” There is growing evidence that it does.
The New York State Board of Elections canceled the state’s June 23 Democratic presidential primary scheduled on Monday despite receiving a request from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign urging the primary to take place as planned.
The VSC system may be on the brink of insolvency if nothing is done, but considering the stress Vermonters have been experiencing the last two months, shouldn’t Chancellor Spaulding have considered all other avenues in solving the matter before doing what he did?
Given the length of the “stay at home” order now measured in months, it might be fair to say that the country could very well be facing an unusual amount of infant deliveries by year end and beyond.
Georgians will be allowed to eat in public dining areas again Monday, but safety guidelines because of the COVID-19 pandemic will create a different experience for diners.
What’s not essential in Blittersdorf’s world — and of those who share his ideology — is you, your job and your standard of living. And the big, necessary change he sees for the future is making sure those unessential things don’t come back.
We owe it to ourselves and those we serve to become more self-reliant, more self-sustaining. Governments can only do so much, and the time has surely come for us to recognize this.
The number of Vermonters out of work and struggling to support their families continues to climb as the Vermont Department of Labor processed more than 6,500 jobless claims over the past week.