“Generally Irritable” host Ericka Redic interviews Matthew Strong and Annisa Lamberton of Vermonters for the Common Good to discuss the unseen, harmful impact Proposal 5 will have on the state of Vermont.
Beginning next January, carbon-free power produced by dams 200 megawatts or larger will become 10% less “renewable” every year for state energy standard purposes, according to a bill introduced Tuesday in the Vermont House.
Tomorrow, Jan. 14th at 3 p.m. the VT House of Representatives will meet and they are scheduled to vote on whether or not to subvert the proposal of the Apportionment Board to create a map of single-member Vermont House districts.
A bill co-sponsored by 61 Vermont House members (but no Republicans) would levy steep fees on vehicles with poor miles-per-gallon performance.
We will best meet our environmental goals by good use of Vermont land. Reforestation Hub shows the size of the opportunity. It’s time to change crops, as Vermont has often done in the past, and turn some farms to forests.
To stop the bleeding and secure the future of its pension system, Vermont must follow the lead of its peer states that have already taken action to move to a defined contribution or hybrid system for new hires.
New bills would require informed consent prior to administration of any vaccine and prohibit discrimination based on vaccine status, but another would ban parents’ right to opt-out of any recommended vaccine for school based on religious or conscientious beliefs.
For the third year in a row, the right to keep and bear arms will be first on the chopping block. Those who have been around a while will remain unsurprised by this approach; it seems the government in this state attempts to solve all problems through the expropriation of individual decision making.
It should be troubling to every Vermonter that the first step is to subvert the majority in favor of the Democratic Party’s map. Why aren’t we using the approved tri-partisan map as a starting point, since it already has the most support?
A Democrat lawmaker has proposed a bill that would make it almost impossible to avoid taking most mainline vaccines for a child to attend schools in Vermont.
The House Transportation Committee is about to take up H.552 which would, among other things, impose new taxes (or fines, depending upon how you look at it) on vehicles that get less than 24 miles per gallon of gasoline or diesel.
Hinesburg’s recent vote to eliminate it’s town meeting and move all town votes to a ballot instead of a traditional town meeting has caught the attention of state lawmakers and Town Meeting Day advocates, who say the town improperly applied a pandemic-era safety measure.