Bad & Getting Worse
by
Hugh Kemper
Tax Commissioner Westman’s December 1st letter with accompanying charts to the Legislature should come as no surprise to Vermont Tiger readers. Based on available projections for the Education Fund through FY12, the bottom line is simply this- if voters [...]
I was thinking about alternative heating recently and was wondering if halogen lighting could be used for heating. Come to find out, there are some halogen heaters on the market. So, interested in trying out the technology, I bought one last night. It's made by SoleusAir. It looks like an [...]
Darren Allen, spokesman for the Vermont-NEA, rejected Lunderville's assessment and said the administration is ... using the bad economy as a "weapon" against public employees.
Herald
What [Secretary of Administration] Neale Lunderville said to get Allen's knickers in a twist was that yesterday's agreement by the [...]
It may not only be the 35 year old mistakes of Viet Nam which the US should take a lesson from but the more recent ones made in Iraq that are being repeated in Afghanistan, with only slight variation. Unbelievably the US is relying even more heavily on private security [...]
Not to bust anyone’s bubble, but it’s common practice for political campaigns and parties to try to manage the comment section beneath any online story key to their current objectives. Presidential campaigns have folks devoted to the practice full-time, on the down-low. When this sort of astroturfing is done well, [...]
In what Gov. James Douglas called a "critical step" toward resolving the state's budget woes, the administration Thursday announced a two-year labor agreement with the state's workers that will cut union salaries by 3 percent.
In addition to pay cuts, the tentative settlement eliminates pay raises and [...]
