The House Committee on Human Services on Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of allowing Vermonters to list their preferred gender — instead of their biological sex — on their birth certificates.
This insulting bill, S.265, is motivated to silence angry Vermont parents who criticized derelict, unrepresentative school boards over the ongoing travesty of CRT, masks and vaccines, and trans-pronouns for kindergartners.
What I am about to relate is one of the most disheartening, if not one of the most outright disgusting things I have ever seen in my eight-year tenure as a lobbyist. Let me explain.
PR.2, Declaration of Rights Clarifying the Prohibition on Slavery and Indentured Servitude, passed in the State House of Representatives on February 4, 2022, by a vote of 139-3.
Instead of passing a series of wide-ranging tax cuts for our most vulnerable friends and neighbors, Vermont Democrats want to send checks to even those in the top 5%.
This bill has the potential to undermine and weaken a large number of Vermont’s small businesses — small, local residential contractors — at a time when we all agree we must prioritize new and revitalized housing.
The “clean heat standard” now being contemplated by the Legislature as part of the Global Warming Solutions Act will drive many these fuel dealers out of business — and where will that leave their customers?
Sue Ceglowski of the Vermont School Boards said her organization is concerned that an increase in non-operating districts will increase the number of students attending independent schools, and particularly attending religious schools.
Are you ready for the coming carbon tax on your home and business heating bill? The Vermont House is working at flank speed to enact the “Clean Heat Standard” (CHS) concocted by the Climate Action Network, and adopted by the Vermont Climate Council.
In its Feb. 6 legislative update, Campaign for Vermont offers an in-depth look at what lawmakers and the governor are doing for fiscal responsibility, workforce and economic development, housing, good government and education.
The latest effort to destroy Vermont culture is underway in Montpelier, in two ill-conceived bills that seek to restructure oversight of Vermont’s fish and wildlife management and ban foot-hold trapping entirely.
As the attorney general reminds Vermonters that they won’t be literally left out in the cold by their propane fuel delivery company, the Legislature is making moves to eradicate those companies and all fossil heating fuels from our landscape.