20/05/2011
by Art Woolf According to an AP story reported on Vermont Public Radio NOFA [Northeast Organic Farming Association] Vermont says the state has the highest number of farmers' markets per capita in the country with more than 85. I was...
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20/05/2011
by Tom Pelham Media coverage of the state budget has fallen prey to covering a contrived budget rather than the real budget. The contrived budget is one where legislative and administration budget staffs add up, as a planning exercise, an...
20/05/2011
The federal health care bill that required many months of legislative toil and came in at some 2700 pages is, evidently, not the kind of law that applies equally to everyone. Which, most of us had been brought up to...
20/05/2011
Stowe Electric's win, win, win solution to the need for more – and more affordable – broadband by Tom Evslin The Nose on top of Mt. Mansfield bristles with communication towers (don't worry; it's still beautiful). Television stations reach much...
13/05/2011
by John McClaughry Ever since Entergy purchased the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in 2002, the company has been the target of ever more ingenious extortion schemes devised by the anti-nukies in the legislature. In 2006 the legislature changed the rules...
13/05/2011
a letter to the editor by Perry Green I went to a meeting at the Maple Street School in Manchester last Tuesday evening concerning our new State's Health Care Reform Law H.202, and left the meeting after several hours with...
13/05/2011
Wanted: Five public servants with extraordinary powers who can solve all the thorny financial, medical, and legal issues of implementing a single-payer system. And then run it. Dave Oliker, CEO MVP Health Care, on his blog Mr. Oliker doesn't like...
12/05/2011
Starting next year [the typical husband and wife who reach age 66 and qualify for Social Security, receiving the average benefit] will begin collecting a combination of cash and health-care entitlement benefits that will total $1 million over their remaining...
12/05/2011
2011 session: the good, the bad, and the ugly by Oliver Olsen Although much has been said about the efficiency of this year’s legislative session, we should be judged by the substance of our accomplishments, rather than procedural mechanics. All...
12/05/2011
by Art Woolf According to a recent study, admittedly looking at nations and not states: we find that a growing roster of young adults (age 15-49) is very good for GDP growth, a growing roster of older workers is a...
12/05/2011
by Art Woolf This short speech on the House floor by Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. is not only a frightening example of economic illiteracy but also a good reason that we don't want these people trying to run our country's...
12/05/2011
The writers on this site tend to have a self-selected set of facts. Anyone who disagrees is either a socialist, Democrat, liberal, or Sandernista and wrong. George Cross in the comment section of this blog Mr. Cross seems to have...
11/05/2011
by Tom Evslin In his 2012 budget plan, President Obama proposed taking tax subsidies away from oil and using the money to subsidize "renewables". Further subsidies for the renewable energy industry would have been relatively easy for Republicans to vote...
10/05/2011
to the legislators who started us down the path to single payer health care by Rob Roper Governor Peter Shumlin spent the legislative session assuring Vermonters that his Green Mountain Health plan will succeed where other governments, state and national,...
10/05/2011
high on government dough by Chris Campion The federal Department of Transportation recently announced the release of federal funds to improve/upgrade the 235-mile railroad track between Chicago and Detroit, using DoT funds targeted for "high-speed rail" projects. The project's price...
09/05/2011
if the government knew how to make business succeed and the economy grow, we'd all be in clover already by Tom Evslin "I can't believe I'm hearing that from a Republican," said Ann Cummings (D - Montpelier), Chair of the...
09/05/2011
by Art Woolf I offer a translation of one of the many acronyms we will be hearing about as we move to a single payer system. In her recent post that Geoff cites, Jeanne Keller mentions ACOs--Accountable Care Organizations. These...
09/05/2011
Who actually believes that simply getting rid of three private insurance companies in Vermont is going to suddenly flatten out cost growth? Governor Shumlin repeatedly says that health costs are going up $1 million/day in Vermont; does anyone seriously believe...
09/05/2011
by Tom Evslin It's no longer acceptable online to make a naked assertion on a controversial subject without at least a link to back it up, at least not for anyone practicing serious journalism and writing a news story. But...
09/05/2011
By Daniel Foty (Enbriefened this week by work and travel and work and work. Regular programming should resume next weekend.) 1. It's interesting to see this plane still in service (at least as of 2003). 2. New York City's new...
07/05/2011
by Art Woolf My weekly look at interesting sites, economic and otherwise, on the web. 1. Brad deLong writes about the problems of modern macroeconomics. When Larry Summers was asked why macroeconomists did not truly understand what was going on...
06/05/2011
the legislature wraps it up. look for the bill in four or five years. Having dealt with everything from health care for all to air fresheners in the schools, the Vermont legislature wraps it up today (Friday) or tomorrow and...
06/05/2011
The final numbers haven't been tallied yet, but it's nearly certain that a UK-wide referendum on "Alternative Vote" (or as we fondly know it here in Vermont, Instant Runoff Voting) has been rejected by the British public. Perhaps the voters...
06/05/2011
the Russians want the world to know that when they produce gas ... they don't frack around by Tom Evslin "Every American housewife is aware of shale gas, but not every housewife is aware of the environmental consequences of the...
06/05/2011
without Yankee, that's what's left by Guy Page A sound energy plan sets forth the “what” of a desired outcome and the “why” of a logical rationale. Its drafters must understand and apply the wide, long view of relevant history,...
06/05/2011
learning how the system works by Aaron Ritchie By now you may have seen that the "Amazon Tax" bill was in fact inserted into the Misc. Tax bill as part of the final negotiations for the bill. The bill is...
06/05/2011
by Art Woolf No, I'm not saying that Act 250 is a disaster, just that Act 250 may be problematic in times of natural disasters. Just about every gravel quarry in Vermont operates under an Act 250 permit, and those...
05/05/2011
Politics by Emerson Lynn When the Vermont Senate voted 22-8 to deny undocumented workers coverage from the proposed health care reform bill, it set off an unintended political tempest. It was decried as unnecessarily vengeful and contrary to the spirit...
05/05/2011
Suppose that groceries were supplied in the same way as K-12 education. Residents of each county would pay taxes on their properties. Nearly half of those tax revenues would then be spent by government officials to build and operate supermarkets....
05/05/2011
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose to an eight-month high last week and productivity growth slowed in the first quarter, clouding the outlook for an economy that is struggling to gain speed. Reuters and According to Zogby,...
05/05/2011
by Aaron Ritchie I, like many, have been closely following the news of the so-called "Amazon bill" during this legislative session. I have spoken with many legislators and most who learn the facts realize the bill would do nothing to...
05/05/2011
by Art Woolf The state is now 10 months into fiscal year 2011. It is now pretty clear how FY11 state tax revenues will end up on June 30, and it's higher than the legislature expects. Consider the following: State...
04/05/2011
Politics by Emerson Lynn Vermont is an expensive place to live, and for the poor, it’s almost beyond their reach, according to both state and national reports. The reports refer to the cost of housing and how difficult it is...
04/05/2011
Greens like to have it both ways. They warn darkly about “peak oil” and global resource shortages that will destroy our industrial economy in its tracks — but also warn that runaway economic growth will destroy the planet through the...
04/05/2011
In Brattleboro, not so good: Brattleboro has been hit hard by the recession, as evidenced by the shuttering of several restaurants and stores in town. They include restaurants such as Bickford’s, House of Pizza, Alici’s, Riverview Cafe, Our Place, 39...
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