There was a time when a 22-year-old college student could walk into a Vermont bar carrying a perfectly valid Massachusetts driver’s license and discover that Massachusetts had apparently lost the power to determine the ages of its own citizens.
The
Vermont has fourteen counties and fourteen State’s Attorneys. None of them is the State’s Attorney for the entire State.
That would be too easy.
The official with statewide criminal authority is the Attorney General. The State’s Attorney is the locally
Last time, we wandered into administrative-law country, which, as it turns out, is most of state government. Permits. Licenses. Benefits. Taxes. Utilities. Professional discipline. The pieces of paper that arrive in ordinary envelopes and somehow contain very serious words like
There is a tendency, when we say “the law,” to picture a courtroom. Robes. Benches. Witness stands. A wooden gavel judges almost never use.
But for most Vermonters, most of the time, “the law” arrives in a less dramatic form.
Its been a while but I felt compelled to blog about the piece in Seven Days that came out yesterday regarding the relaxation of homeschooling requirements in Vermont – – ostensibly because the Agency of Education (AOE) doesn’t have the
To say that public service isn’t all sunshine and roses, would be – – well a bit of an understatement. Especially for one at the top of the so called food chain (like a President, Governor or Mayor) and the
It’s been a while. No blogging since the pandemic started (other then my last piece offering to assist licensed professions with pro bono help during COVID). It occurs to me that I haven’t been blogging in this strange new
Governor Phil Scott of Vermont just issued this call for volunteers for folks from a wide range of health care professions to volunteer their services during this time of need. I’m not a health care professional, but I’ve worked with
A few weeks ago the Vermont Secretary of State, Jim Condos, made a mistake. He posted… and then deleted an “offer” regarding a $75 coupon from Costco…. that turned out to be a scam.
Fellow blogger John Walters covered the
Most of my readership is in Vermont (at least according to Google Analytics) but even those of you outside Vermont, even outside of the U.S. may have heard about the most recent news coming from our little corner of the
