Deb Billado: Vermont Democrat agrees to ‘dismantle private property’
While one obscure tweet from a lone progressive Twitter profile normally wouldn’t warrant attention, in this case the tweet was “liked” by a Vermont state representative.
John Klar: CRT and Marxism — odd bedfellows
Critical race theory is regularly criticized as “Marxist,” but this allegation — however true that CRT’s “roots” are Marxist — is inaccurate. Worse, this label merely encourages many young Americans and swing voters to view this racist doctrine as acceptable.
McClaughry: Missouri and New Hampshire school choice programs
Last week Reason.com published an update on school choice developments in the states. It’s not too late for Vermont to catch up.
Keelan: Vermont’s potential boycott list
I can picture it now: the Vermont Legislature, which sends considerable money to the University of Vermont, prohibiting the UVM sports teams from participating in competitions with any state whose laws regarding civil rights, climate change, policing and social issues do not conform to Vermont’s.
The Big Lie about election reforms in Texas and other states
President Joe Biden claimed in a recent speech that state election reform efforts are “the 21st-century Jim Crow assault” and “the most dangerous threat to voting and integrity of free and fair elections in our history.” This has to one of the most foolish things he has ever said.
CRT is ‘so very effective and so very pernicious,’ UVM professor says at forum
Friday night in St. Albans City Hall Auditorium, Vermonters for Vermont Initiative hosted a town hall informational forum on critical race theory equity teaching.
McClaughry: Sen. Alison Clarkson’s pension report
Rejiggering the pension commission and creating another task force is kicking the ever-larger can — now the size of a bulk tank — further down the road.
John Klar: The infestation and colonization is in the Bloated Dome
The infestation and colonization is in the Bloated Dome, where bureaucrats rape our resources while pretending to help us, restrict us more and more in our land and homes, denigrate us and our history and culture, and tell us how they are doing all this through their enlightened desire to “help” us.
Deb Billado: The Cuban protesters and that shining city
The Cuban people are at their breaking point. They aren’t asking for liberty anymore — they’re demanding it. It’s no surprise that when they take to the street — much like the protests for freedom in Hong Kong — they proudly wave the American flag as a beacon for freedom.
Flemming: Property tax limits — a modest proposal from 46 states
Vermont has the 4th highest property tax rate in the country, at 1.76%, according to research from the Tax Foundation. We are second only to New Hampshire among the New England states, which has a property tax rate of 1.89%.
Tom Evslin: The internet and the cloud are going into space
Five years from now this transition will be obvious, accepted, and well under way — or this will turn out to be the dumbest prediction I’ve ever made. Starlink is not the cause of the internet moving to space; it’s an early example of the technologies which are enabling the move.
Roper: Climate council says the ‘C’ word
In the span of less than an hour we went from, “We’re not proposing a carbon tax,” to “We are totally recommending a regional carbon tax on motor fuels, which likely won’t raise enough revenue to cover all the spending we want, so we’ll need another source of revenue, which will likely come from a straight carbon tax at the state level.”