John McClaughry
John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute.
Recent Stories
Guest Viewpoint: Gut check on climate change
"The Shumlin Climate Theology"
For the past 20 years, Vermonters have been fed a heavy diet of terrors originally labeled the menace of global warming—then renamed “climate change” after the predicted warming failed to appear.
What to expect from the 2013 Vermont State Legislature
Commentary
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) has a sweeping program of action for Vermont’s new General Assembly, and it’s a safe bet that he’ll get ninety percent of what he wants. Here’s a quick snapshot of the leading issues...
Citizen questions for Vermont office seekers
The Ethan Allen Institute
The candidates have filed and the campaign season in full swing, heading into the primaries on Aug. 28 and the general election on November 6. Now is a good time, a very good time, for citizens to start thinking about putting serious questions to candidates for the state legislature.
More taxation by unaccountable strangers
Ethan Allen Institute Report
The Public Service Board issued its long-expected order agreeing to the consolidation of Central Vermont Public Service and Green Mountain Power into a new combined company.
Decoding the language of Green Mountain Care
Common Sense from the Ethan Allen Institute
Vermont's Shumlin administration is proceeding at flank speed to realize its breathtakingly ambitious promise of “comprehensive, affordable, high-quality, publicly financed health care coverage for all Vermont residents in a seamless manner regardless of income, assets, health status, or availability of other health coverage, Green Mountain Care.
It could have been lots worse
Ethan Allen Institute Report
The 2011-2012 legislature has given up and gone home, and pretty much on schedule to boot.
SCOTUS ObamaCare decision fallout may get ugly
Letter to the Editor
A leading leftist political group, Health Care for America Now, is mapping out a full bore media campaign to either celebrate or denounce the coming U.S. Supreme Court decision in the ObamaCare case, expected sometime in June.
Ethan Allen Institute Report - It could have been a lot worse
The 2011-2012 legislature has given up and gone home, and pretty much on schedule to boot.
Ethan Allen Institute: Health Insurance Exchange
Many members of the Vermont House uncomfortably confided that they really didn’t understand what they did last month, when they voted 88-38 to pass Gov. Shumlin’s health insurance exchange legislation (H.559). The bill is now under consideration in the Senate, so this easy to grasp format may prove helpful to legislators and citizens alike.
Ethan Allen Institute: Those school choice rascals
An evil plot is afoot to pressure the states to adopt “school choice schemes”, according to onetime Rutland Northeast Superintendent Dr. William J. Mathis. He is currently a Shumlin appointee to the Vermont State Board of Education and Managing Director of the grandly-named “National Education Policy Center” at the University of Colorado.