Public health leaders begat this new disregard for disease-acquired immunity because rational reasoning is not politically expedient in a pandemic.
Public health leaders begat this new disregard for disease-acquired immunity because rational reasoning is not politically expedient in a pandemic.
Leftist Goddard College staff push back against vax mandate. Go figure!
Gov. Scott still thinks the TCI is a bad deal for Vermont. He also doubts he can stop it.
Leashed tracking dogs are available for hunters who need help finding the big game they shot.
More than three-quarters of Vermont Covid-19 fatalities in September were vaccine ‘breakthrough’ cases.
Despite raising heavy taxes, the Vermont Legislature has severely underfunded pensions while not reducing poverty. Solution: reduce programs, not taxpayer incomes.
Vermont climate planners care ONLY about emissions reduction. If biodiversity suffers, that’s not their problem.
UVM is researching a way to feed Maine seaweed to Vermont cows.
Headline from VT media today – Those retention bonuses using federal $$ aren’t enough to make Burlington cops stick around. Good job, Burlington City Council! Whoyagonnacall?
Vintage apples, “I do not choose to run” race on tap at Coolidge Homestead Saturday.
What happens in Winooski stays in Winooski? Not when it comes to local elections affecting statewide policy.
On September 24, VT Dept. of Health statistics showed the total number of white people testing positive suddenly decreased by 1800 people. The same day the number of ‘other’ rose by about 3000. A trained virologist and teacher wonders what explains this overnight change.
A leftist group that wants to abolish the police also wants to stop Charlie Kirk from coming to Vermont to talk about Critical Race Theory.
A Celebrate America Flag Wave and Potluck will be held Thursday, Sept. 30 at the Essex Grange Hall on Rte. 15 from 4-8 pm.
Vermont conservatives should fret less about ‘RINO’ Phil Scott and think more about regaining the Legislature. If that happens, they might see a more conservative chief executive, says former Vermont Senate colleague Mark Shepard.
There’s hope with the 2022 elections. The election can provide a roadblock to this socialistic destructive path and protect our borders. We get what we accept. Vote!
The free food program will end this week. A Stowe cop is accused of sex assault. And hospital officials worry about looming staffing shortages due to Covid-19 vax deadlines. These headlines and more from VT media today.
President Biden wants the IRS to audit every bank transaction of $600 or more.
Vermont and national Republicans are suing Montpelier and Winooski for letting non-citizens vote in municipal elections.
The country will be deeply damaged if there is enough evidence of fraud that the result of the coming presidential election is legitimately in doubt.
When climate feds called this July “the hottest July on record,” the Associated Press duly trumpeted the claim. Oops. They missed 1935 (and several other years).
The Border Patrol caught one potential Covid-carrying fish in Derby Line. Too bad about the 12,000 who got away in Del Rio.
A huge, new gob of data will help researchers using the UVM supercomputer study climate change and “the spread of online misinformation,” UVM said Sept. 27.
Burlington’s mayor and the City Council want voters to approve $60 million in new borrowing to fix the streets, rehab Memorial Auditorium, and save the climate.
Many thanks to cartoonist Nitzakhon and Granite Grok (New Hampshire’s conservative news and commentary website) for allowing republication of this cartoon. Submissions from Vermonters are welcome.
A former governor and major Middlebury College donor will have his name stricken from the school chapel, due to his strong advocacy for Vermont eugenics legislation in 1914. Better late than never!
I can’t imagine how much work and cost it must be for a publicly-traded company to extract its carbon emissions.
While Vermont healthcare groups vaccinate migrant workers statewide, the Biden Administration is admitting thousands of unvaccinated Haitians. And why was a UVM dorm told to ‘shelter in place’?
“I feel like I have a gun to my head.”
Two very different Republicans – one from the Northeast Kingdom, the other from Southwestern Vermont – both ridiculed a superficial, highly partisan op-ed written by a former leader of VTDigger’s parent organization.
Rather than misrepresenting in order to malign, as Schubart does, I urge the Reader to employ the “steel man” technique and consider the strongest form of the right’s positions.
Ingalls’ response to Bill Schubart’s critique of GOP included the observation that VTDigger is “an affinity space where old political hacks can gather.”
Hospitalizations and deaths – the most accurate yardstick of harm by Covid-19 – shows white Vermonters have suffered more per capita than blacks. Listening to government officials and media, you’d think the opposite was true.
A New Haven man on the lam all month was found by South Burlington police yesterday.
The 21%, permanent boost in 3SquaresVT payments more than replaces the ‘temporary’ 15% hike implemented during the pandemic, and set to expire September 30.
A Stowe worker died in a zipline accident.
Cartoon by Nitzakhon, republished from http://www.granitegrok.com.
The man in the car with Brittany Bouthiette when she died of a gunshot wound September 15 in Killington is being held on federal firearms violation.
Vermonters 80 and older may get Covid-19 booster shots, starting today.
If government can’t tell people what to do with their bodies, it can’t tell them they have to be vaccinated.
A consultant to the Vermont Climate Council won’t recommend carbon-free ‘next gen’ nuclear power as an option worth considering. Turns out he owns a solar power company. Draw your own conclusions.
Fentanyl, bioweapons, and nukes are among the PRC’s deadly weapons, China policy expert Gordon Chang told a Williston gathering September 11.
A pickup truck driver died after the trailer he was pulling went off the road.
Grant money from the EB-5 Court Settlement is available to Newport businesses and organizations. Newport Renaissance, Take Two.
A hemorrhagic disease is killing deer on Vermont’s borders – and may be here already.
A state agency disbursing federal pandemic relief aid to Vermont businesses may have paid out $4.4 million more than merited. And that money may need to be paid back.
Vermont’s auditor says some businesses got more pandemic relief $$ than they were entitled to.
Bestselling author Amity Shlaes will be the keynote speaker at the Ethan Allen Institute Jefferson Day Dinner Oct. 2 at the President Calvin Coolidge Historic Site in Plymouth.
Harwood Union High School has been stricken by ‘Devious Licks,’ a viral vandalism challenging sweeping the nation’s high schools.
No, Gov. Scott, ‘lack of time’ isn’t why tens of thousands of Vermonters haven’t gotten the jab. It’s more likely their informed instinct for self-preservation.
Apologize for eugenics, push for abortion. Will our Legislature never learn?
As state and national government grow faster and faster, a Cambridge native and selectboard member praises the virtues of Slow Government.
The VT AFL-CIO voted Sunday to oppose gun control laws and carbon taxation. But don’t think they’ve gone all reactionary.
Vermont media today report: noted Calvin Coolidge historian to speak; Fletcher library resists BHS merger; /vt state colleges ponder ‘university’ name
A police investigation belies the claim by a Progressive Barre City Councilor that she was ‘threatened’ after calling her city’s 9/11 American flag ‘intimidating.’ She did get an earful, though.
A $7 million grant to the UVM School of Medicine could lead to breakthroughs in reducing nerve pain and opioid dependence for people receiving chemotherapy.
The FDA watches the pharmaceutical industry. The revolving door between government regulators and Big Pharma is troublesome to some vaccine hesitant Vermonters.
Three more Essex-Westford school board members are now on record opposing flying the BLM flag on school property. Two board members supporting the flag are up for election next spring.
Wanted for attempted homicide in South Carolina, Philip Katon was apprehended while fleeing from justice in St. Albans – just a few miles from the Canadian border.
Which nightclubs require vaccination? What really caused the SBHS lockdown? What happened in the cyberattack on Vermont radio stations? Vermont media report today.
A woman claiming to be a UVMMC nurse told a national TV audience last night that some doctors at the Burlington hospital won’t consider a Covid-19 vaccine reaction when faced with otherwise inexplicable symptoms.
Calmly and factually, a clinical nutritionist explains why many Vermonters won’t ‘take the jab.’ Part one of a three-part series.
The pro-CRT school board chair in Essex won’t resign even though she no longer lives in town.
UVM renewable power systems scientist joins with DOE research center.
Volunteers needed to help prepare nesting sites for endangered baby turtles.
Fear rules in electoral politics. And fear of the virus helped Gavin Newsom defeat the recall.
A Barre man coerced a 10-year-old girl to email him intimate photos. He then sold them on the Internet. He’s doing 10 years in federal prison.
At the present rate, Social Security will be broke by 2034. And none of the fixes are easy.
The Biden administration Saturday returned Cuban boat refugees to Cuba.
Nope, there weren’t 314 new cases of Covid last Thursday. Just an IT glitch.
$25 million in state money has been allocated to clean up enviromental disaster sites in Springfield, St. Albans and Burlington.
Burlington’s leaf blower ban. A Democrat lawmaker remembers when Donald Trump campaigned at the Flynn in Vermont January 7, 2016. These and more headlines from Vermont media.
Bernie Sanders decries government overspending – at least by the Pentagon.
Parents in Mendon and Chittenden “understood the issues: that school choice is more equitable; that each child is different and has different educational needs– that without school choice, those needs will not be met.”
Gordon Chang, a China expert frequently quoted in national publications, indicates that the Chinese Communists Party (CCP) has declared war against Americans. With current policies proposed by President Biden and his party, the CCP objective is on its way to fruition.
A 19-year-old teen, possibly under the influence and not wearing a helmet, died when his motorcycle struck a utility pole in the NEK.
Democrat leaders’ caterwauling about a Vermont Right to Life seminar shows they fear health care providers demanding conscience protection. It also shows their fealty to Planned Parenthood.
100 Afghan refugees – reportedly eager to find jobs – will be resettled in Vermont. Plenty of work here for people who want it.
Burlington tries to manage a homeless camp that will need to be moved when a new highway goes through it, anyway. If you build it, they will come.
In the last two years many civil liberties have been curtailed. Where will it end?
We can all agree that containing this virus must not inflict irreparable damage on the developing minds and bodies of children. Masks optional!
Marsh was arrested after police found cocaine, other drugs, paraphernalia, and $14 grand in his truck.
Who are the REAL purveyors of “a growing narrative coming from outside of our borders”? The parents complaining about CRT, or the Santa Monica High School grad pushing it?
An Enosburg man died in a head-on crash in Sheldon yesterday.
Her boyfriend says she was despondent and shot herself. Police are investigating.
More than $1 billion is coming to Vermont from the federal government. The Legislature is asking you how to spend it.
The Feds can’t control news coverage at the southern border.
The Vermont Dept. of Fish & Wildlife wants to add the bumblebee to the endangered species list, and take the bald eagle off it.
Almost as much as nurses and doctors, the hospital cleaning staff keep people alive. The much-traveled Louis Porter adds yet another gig to his impressive resume. And will Slate Ridge become a non-profit?
An anti-gun professor is giving a speech Sept. 21 in Springfield entitled “Do We Still Need an Armed Citizenry?” Guess what her answer is.
Participation and enthusiasm at town GOP caucuses has picked up steam.
Due to heightened national demand or government restrictions – or both – ivermectin
State police crime investigators want to know why a woman died in car Wednesday night in Killington.
The annual 40 Days for Life prayer vigil outside the Barre Planned Parenthood begins Sunday, September 19. Rutland and Burlington also will see 40DFL events.
Vermont pharmacy won’t fill ivermectin for Covid-19
The Liberty Union Party does NOT want to be confused with lag-waving patriotic zealots. So it’s changing its name. That story and others in the Vermont media today.
A Burlington man accused in numerous assaults is now behind bars.
“Buy Nothing” groups — places where members can ask and give goods and services for free — are growing daily, including in Winooski.
Vermont is suing Big Oil for saying it’s to solve climate change.
A member of the Vermont Climate Council spilled the beans: even if Vermont gets to zero emissions, it won’t improve the environment at all.