Behind the Lines: Rob Roper on Vermont Politics

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Higher Home Heating Fuel Prices Are Just the Beginning. Next Up, Gas & Diesel.
Vermont’s supermajority just put Vermont on the path to significantly higher home heating fuel prices in the future with the passage of S.5, the Clean…
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Analyzing the media bias in Clean Heat Standard coverage
An in depth look at how reporters mislead citizens to promote a political agenda
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The weird irony of school mascot controversies
Over the past few years our Vermont public schools have been dealing with some incredibly difficult issues that have shredded the fabric of classrooms…
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The VT media lost control of the narrative on S.5
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The talking point that the Clean Heat bill will help the poor is a cruel lie.
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The conflicts of interest that lead to bad laws like the “Unaffordable Heat Act”
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Vermont does not need or want a full time, professional legislature.
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Supermajority’s taxing and spending is divorced from reality.
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Vermonters – desperately – need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights
The Vermont legislature went home for the season with an $8.5 billion dollar budget hanging in the veto balance. This budget is 13 percent higher than…
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Unrepresentative, under-qualified legislature gives itself a massive pay raise.
Their argument; not mine.
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The talking point that the Clean Heat Standard will “only cost pennies” is observably false.
One of the favorite talking points supporters of the Clean Heat Standard, S.5, like to pull out is that it will at most only add pennies to the cost of…
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The talking point that the Clean Heat bill will help the poor is a cruel lie.
Veto override vote likely to take place early this week!
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Vermont’s legislature is blowing big bucks on failed experiments.
Census data shows blue states losing people and income to red states.
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All eyes are on Senator Dick Sears
Bennington Democrat holds fate of Clean Heat Standard in his hands.
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Is this what Sen. Kitchel meant by a legislative “check back”?
Promise that “nothing would move forward without affirmative action by the future legislature,” is shown to be very, very false.
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Behind the Lines: Rob Roper on Vermont Politics
Behind the Lines: Rob Roper on Vermont Politics
Rob Roper is a freelance writer who has been involved with Vermont politics and policy for over twenty years.
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