The Race for Last Place
We all know who won the presidential election. But who's bringing up the rear?
We all know who won the presidential election. But who's bringing up the rear?
However distasteful, the First Amendment protects a citizen’s right to give a police officer the middle finger.
"I'm shaking and crying because I'm like, 'Oh my god, I'm gonna get shot,'" one student told a Vermont newspaper. "It felt so real."
FIRE and the ACLU of Vermont are now representing the man in a free speech lawsuit.
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New bills in six states showcase some right and wrong ways to help sex workers, from full decriminalization to ramping up penalties for prostitution customers.
Data show Florida and New York had similar death numbers despite vastly different approaches.
Voters in California, Michigan, and Vermont embraced constitutional amendments to protect abortion rights, while Kentuckians rejected an anti-abortion amendment.
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A new law allows cash-strapped districts to send students to private religious schools.
Good intentions, bad results.
Anyone 16 or older and identifying as BIPOC can get a vaccine in Vermont now. Whites under the age of 50 will have to wait a little longer.
One dynamic that works in favor of both Trump and Sanders is that voters discount their extreme stances, figuring that they just represent opening offers that will eventually be watered down in compromises with powerful interest groups and with establishment lawmakers.
The proposal is parodying, not endorsing, the nanny state.
Green Angel CBD had the proper documentation for their shipment, but that didn't stop the New York cops.
Friday A/V Club: Back in the '80s, Bernie Sanders had a public-access TV show. The archives are now online.
The estate tax is a form of double taxation.
The agency admits that its new bioengineered food regs are "not expected to have any benefits to human health or the environment."
And there's nothing the town can do to stop him.
Student journalists at a Vermont high school had a damning article censored by their interim principal.
Like so many other states, age laws in Vermont are showing themselves to be disproportionate.
The ninth state to legalize recreational pot
Chittenden County State's Attorney Sarah George will no longer prosecute misdemeanor buprenorphine cases.
Today the governor signed a bill that eliminates penalties for possession and home cultivation.
The governor has indicated he will sign a bill approved today.
Vermont is close to becoming the first state in the country to legalize marijuana via legislation instead of relying on a referendum.
Is U.S. Attorney Christina E. Nolan intimidating Vermont legislators who want to keep their constituents alive?
And it always ends the same way. Here's the political and economic reasons why America won't be converting to a single-payer health care system anytime soon.
Bill now heads to Gov. Phil Scott.
Hmm. I wonder what other comparisons might one make?
"Acknowledging the uncertainty we are all feeling with regard to the changes in the political situation in the United States."
The intended consequences of needlessly scaring consumers are bad enough, but now this too.
Preempts labeling requirements in Vermont and other states
It's set to take effect next week and will cost food companies for no good reason.
One of baseball's weirdest players ever wants to be chief executive of America's crunchiest state.
Vermont joins Maryland in extending the "free birth control" mandate to cover vasectomies.
She says Vermont "has the highest per capita number" of New York crime guns bought in other states.
Trying to impugn Bernie Sanders, she falsely claims his state provides a big share of crime guns in hers.
Just another stupid regulatory cost with no discernible benefits to people
Sanders is basically enabling an unscientific disinformation campaign.
(You don't really have to shut up, but here's my money.)
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