Headlines from Vermont media: the Gypsy Moth will get a new, less ethnically-sensitive name. Cyanobacteria closing beaches. A Burlington city councilor has been accused on social media of sexually assaulting a fellow VPIRG worker.
Tom Breuer of Stowe died unexpectedly early Sunday morning.
Sen. Pat Leahy has introduced a bill to spend billions on U.S. Capitol security, including a brand-new, $27 million U.S. Capitol Protection Task Force, a rapid response team to deal with future threats.
New York City makes it almost impossible to get a permit to carry a firearm for self-protection. Here’s what TV journalist John Stossel had to do when he applied.
The Burlington City Council last night unanimously approved a resolution to decriminalize prostitution.
Do Orleans teachers carefully distinguish between white skin color and the academic concept of Whiteness? Are teenaged students understanding it and accepting it without shame?
You thought college was already expensive? The state wants to tax tuition.And aren’t we told that affordable childcare is already a problem?
Marx, like so many others, virtually plagiarizes the teachings of Jesus.
A hacker discovered child porn and reported it. Big non-profit media in Vermont just got bigger. A NY homicide raises questions about bail reform on both sides of Lake Champlain.
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says many people are having problems with bears looking for food near their homes, and with the food scrap ban in effect the department is providing tips for people who are composting at home so they can avoid attracting hungry bears.
Gasoline has increased 50 percent and building materials 100 percent. Food prices are increasing the fastest in history with no slow down. But Biden says our greatest threat is white racism.
After The Camry struck the moose, the moose landed on a Toyota Tundra.
S79 would have created 6.5 new bureaucratic positions in state government, with an annual appropriation of $850,000 for pay and benefits. That works out to $130,000 per bureaucrat–an insult to every Vermonter.
July 9 at 6:44 pm, State Police stopped a vehicle for a speeding violation on VT RT 62, near the Berlin Town line in Barre City. The vehicle driven by Caleb Deneef, […]
The Vermont Republican Party will pursue legal action against recently passed non-citizen voting laws.
President Biden has appointed Governor Phil Scott to the President’s Council of Governors for a two-year term.
Former South Burlington lawmaker Frank Mazur reports that what prompted several Florida legislators to initiate a new association of former state lawmakers is the increased centralization and overreach of national government that put state sovereignty at risk.
A resolution banning vaccination passports will be offered to the Vermont Republican Party state committee Saturday.
Getting busted for heroin distribution in the federal system doesn’t mean a written citation saying ‘see you in court in two months.’
Seven people tried to enter the U.S. by racing in a car across the Haskell Free Library Lawn. They were apprehended later and returned to Canada.
Fake vaccine passports are being sold to people who don’t want to get vaccinated but want to show a record that they have been.
An informational meeting for Vermonters concerned about Equity/CRT in schools will be held July 14 at the Canadian Club in Barre.
Democrats across America are trying to tear down our country’s constitutional foundations brick by brick. Nowhere is this more evident than in the assault the far-left has launched on election integrity nationwide.
A Calais woman who police say pepper-sprayed three Vermont Liberty supporters and struck one of them on the State House Lawn May 15 was charged July 2 with three misdemeanors. Today, she was referred for court diversion.
Longtime WVMT radio show host Ernie Farrar dead; cartoonist Danziger discusses his Vietnam experience; WCAX investigates Burlington ‘policing’ contract; State House tours begin
Lawmakers in Washington, DC, Illinois and New York City this year are considering legislation that would offer the vote to noncitizens for local elections, such as for city council or the school board.
Family and friends of Rev. Craig Bensen are invited to celebrate his life, legacy and consider how to continue his work at 2 PM, Saturday, August 21 at Hunger Mountain Christian Assembly on Rte. 100 in Waterbury Center.
The States accuse Google of using its market dominance to unfairly restrict competition with the Google Play Store, harming consumers by limiting choice and driving up app prices.
I have a real problem when a wizard comes into Vermont, creates an unworkable $3 billion plan, ignores all criticism, watches it implode, abruptly gets out of town – and then reappears seven years later to pocket $400,000 a year to supply her clear vision that produced a colossal failure last time around.
It’s happened again. Following a long, multi-agency investigation, a suspected heroin dealer has been arrested – and then released with a citation to appear in court more than two months hence.
The Christopher-Aaron Felker For Ward 3 Campaign will hold the first of four scheduled Community Listening Sessions 6-8 pm Wednesday, July 14.
The proponents of this teaching will negatively teach our children and grandchildren to hate, be racist, and to judge all people by the color of their skin.
Headlines in today’s VT media – Congressman Peter Welch has big plans to spend tax $$ in Vermont. Families with minor children will soon get regular checks from the federal government. Vermont’s biggest cannabis company sold out to Big Marijuana.
During the first six months of 2021, federal background checks for Vermont firearms purchases were down – but only slightly – from last year’s record high numbers.
The State House has reopened, and so have most courthouses – but masks are still required in the latter. These headlines and more…..
Just how DO the super-rich avoid paying taxes? Columnist and retired CPA Don Keelan explains.
All of a sudden we see a move to defund the police, move BIPOC to the head of the line, allow 16-year-olds to vote, ensure that mail-in balloting is the way to vote, tax 200 new goods and services and shame all white Vermonters. What’s the hurry?
At Town Meeting this March, Middlebury voters ok’d the operation of cannabis retailers locally. The question remains: where and how will the “weed” be regulated in town?
An adult and four children were rescued after midnight Monday, July 5, by a State Game Warden who found them adrift in a boat without power on Lake Dunmore in Salisbury.
There are very few true ‘vaccine skeptics’ in Vermont, Commissioner Mark Levine said. He also said vaccines are better tested and more effective than alternative therapies ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
Following a month-long mission at the Capitol in Washington DC, 400 Vermont National Guard soldiers are in Europe training for dealing with civilian unrest in Kosovo.
Critical Race Theory is the dominant lens through which the Vermont Climate Council is approaching its mission of greenhouse gas reduction.
Action Civics is the beginning of recruitment efforts to pit children against their parents for not supporting ‘equity’ and ‘inclusion’ – in other words, the neo-racist policies designed for the institution of communism in the U.S.
The car is on a narrow mountain road with a 3000 foot drop off to the left and a solid cliff on the right. It comes around a turn and there are four children unaccountably in the road. There is not enough space to stop or even slow down substantially. The car knows that.
Six years before the Battle of Bennington, the Green Mountain Boys were born when a handful of Vermonters frustrated the plans of a posse of New Yorkers in the “Breakenridge Stand-off.” Re-enactors and historians will celebrate the 250th anniversary of this little-known but important event Sunday, July 18.
A pedestrian died while trying to cross Rte. 7 in Rutland Town Sunday night.
At its annual meeting last week, the parent organization of one of Vermont’s most influential unions rejected a school vax and mask mandate, but backed CRT.
All across the nation, Critical Race Theory is in the news. The NEA is for it, the military is trying to decide what to do with it, some governors have said not […]
An electric car owned by the architect of the Vermont Global Warming Solutions Act caught fire while charging and parked in his driveway. Police say the fire was caused by electrical failure.
My fellow Vermonters, today as we gather to celebrate the glorious history of the Fourth but we too wonder about our nation’s future. Let us take some consolation that many celebrants of bygone Fourths questioned if their nation would long endure.
Gov. Phil Scott today vetoed S79, the rental registry bill passed June 24 during the veto session.
On our nation’s 245th birthday, it would be nice to set our eyes on the window displaying blue skies. Instead, we see storm clouds.
Vermont police will be using new techniques to stop impaired boaters this 4th of July weekend.
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision allowing electoral freedom to states made Sen. Patrick Leahy go all Elmer Fudd.
It is now permissible for UVM student-athletes to earn money from the use of their name, image and likeness.
Vermont has the smallest gender wage gap in the country.
Vermont employers will pay higher unemployment insurance (UI) rates, while the maximum weekly benefit for unemployed workers will increase from $531 to $583 per week.
In what is believed to be the first time a carbon tax has been put to a national vote, upscale urban regions including Geneva, Basel, and Zurich voted in favor of the CO2 law, but 51.6 per cent of voters, and 21 of the country’s 26 cantons, said “get out of here with your carbon tax”.
It could be that in Vermont a new variant may surface that the vaccine will not protect against. It will take at least three months to know this statistically.
Vermont Liberty will offer an Independence Day Celebration on the Vermont State House Lawn noon – 2 pm Saturday, July 3.
The parent organization of the Vermont NEA – the state teachers’ union – is considering mandatory vaccination of all students and staff before face-to-face instruction begins this fall.
A sergeant in the Air National Guard has received a prestigious award from the NAACP.
Vermont’s forests and wood products consume and store 45% of all of Vermont’s carbon emissions – both manmade and natural, VT Forest & Parks Commissioner Michael Snyder said on Common Sense Radio show on WDEV.
The State of Vermont will extend for two weeks its free hotel-motel housing of the homeless.
A new law, crafted and pushed by the special interest group Let’s Grow Kids, could have major negative consequences for children, families, and taxpayers.
A Manchester woman must pay $655 after driving 99 MPH, Vermont State Police say. At 8 pm Wednesday June 30, police saw a vehicle traveling at 99 MPH in a posted 55 […]
