I have just published my last post for 2022. Wow, what a year it has been!
I have just published my last post for 2022. Wow, what a year it has been!
Free speech, public safety, and answering the question ‘what is a woman?’ all proved problematic for local, state and federal officials in 2022.
Many Vermonters, even those born and raised here, have never visited either Island Pond or Stratton Mountain. As their live webcams show, there’s a lot to see and do there.
Criminal and civil action collections and asset forfeiture swept more than $2 million into federal coffers and then disbursed to victims, victims’ organizations, and law enforcement.
The only sober person in the room was a teenager without a driver’s license.
A men’s gold Rolex watch was among the items reported missing from the temporary storage room at the state police barracks.
Despite federal funding, a South Royalton dental clinic can’t offer services because it lacks dental hygienists.
Is it possible to have a reasonable conversation with your doctor about COVID-19 vaccines?
The regional natural gas shortage has led two Vermont utilities to request double-digit rate hikes for electricity.
Just a couple of months into legal cannabis sales, Vermont growers now want to cut out the retail ‘middle man’ and sell directly to customers. Farm stands, maybe?
Dozens of Vermont dairy farms have closed in 2022.
$3.9 million in federal funding will help communities across Vermont strengthen community facilities and housing.
A Waterbury musician has put the stirring words of Miriam, the sister of Moses, to music.
Four-legged patients get loving, expert healthcare inside Baby Huey, the rolling veterinary clinic operated by the Mitzvah Fund.
A daycare operator died while trying to enter her Castleton home Friday.
Sure, it’ll be more expensive to stay warm in 2023. But at least we won’t be able to buy some types of fluorescent light bulbs!
Wild birds across Vermont have contracted avian flu.
Just the latest Internet Fear Fest? Or is there something to all of the online stories about rubbery blood clots being pulled from bodies alive and dead? Steve Kirsch is curious.
Our children must be fully supported and our schools must prioritize parental rights and create a space in which all of our differences in belief systems and values are respected.
A state trooper has been suspended for alleged misconduct related to possible theft from an evidence storage locker in the VSP barracks.
Vigilance, good equipment and plenty of chloride-based de-icing.
A Philadelphia woman who posted a social media video of herself socializing at a Burlington bar on Christmas Day was arrested yesterday for firing a gun there early Tuesday morning.
As of 11:38 Tuesday AM, more than 1300 rural customers of Washington Electric Co-op in Washington and Orange counties remain without power.
Commenting on a bill blocking parental rights to stop a child from being prescribed puberty blockers, Sen. Phil Baruth says “I tend to be the sort of person to side with medical experts.”
The bullet hit a pipe in the basement.
The victim was treated for stab wounds to the head, neck and arms and has been released from the hospital.
A dog died in an untagged, illegal trap in East Corinth, the dog’s owner says.
VT Digger reports census data showing wealthy Vermonters got wealthier. Jury’s still out on improvement at the lower end of the income scale.
Pockets of rural Washington, Orange, Addison and Franklin counties remain without power following the ice/wind/snow/rain storm of December 22-24.
Vermont’s two senators brought home a whopping $254 million of earmarked spending in last week’s $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.
Publisher Guy Page and his wife were heading off to the hospital to visit a sick friend on Christmas Eve when we received a wonderful Christmas present in the form of a reader testimonial and contribution. Thank you, Steve Waldo!
Jim Jordan, the hard-charging incoming chair of the House Judiciary Committee, wants the FBI to hand over all communications with Twitter.
Vermont emergency officials have announced hours and locations of storm shelters and warming shelters statewide.
Franklin and Addison Counties show the highest percentage of utility customers without power as of 12:38 PM today.
Facing power outages, Vermonters are told to ‘make a plan’ to deal with living in the cold and the dark. So, why doesn’t the Legislature approve more energy diversity, rather than less?
Colonialism and the massacre of indigenous people was not recognized as wrong, because conquerors had the right to claim new lands and new property rights and to kill for that purpose.
Police say a domestic incident at a Berlin motel resulted in the arrest of a 41-year-old man on charges of attempted second degree murder.
A Vermont video news website has published a single link with three years of reporting on vaccine and mask freedom.
The discharge permit requires Casella Waste to develop a pilot system to reduce the amount of PFAS in the leachate.
A St. Albans cop fired after striking a handcuffed woman in a jail cell was sentenced yesterday to serve 3-6 months in prison.
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Rutland is a great place to raise a family, even as city leaders work on housing, police recruitment, and opioid epidemic challenges, Mayor David Allaire says.
Old Man Winter plans to thump Vermont this weekend. Be ready!
Berlin police are seeking this masked man for making fraudulent withdrawals at credit unions.
One of the few fast-growing Vermont communities appears poised to add 93 more housing units.
An early investor in Beta Technologies and legal advocate for transgender legislation, Martine Rothblatt also has created a socially-interactive android copy of a loved one.
A school teacher and Vermont resident accused of repeated sexual assault of a child will spend his Christmas holiday in Nazareth.
A Lake Champlain protection program long favored by Sen. Patrick Leahy will bear his name if his $1.7 trillion spending bill passes.
In the elementary school serving the Caledonia County town of Newark (pop. 589), masks aren’t a thing of the past. The local superintendent wants a mask mandate opponent to butt out.
The red lines on the map show where drivers found no cell service at all. Very few of them are in populous Chittenden County.
Observers are hoping THIS ‘tabletop exercise’ about the next pandemic isn’t as prophetic as the last one.
Many of the players’ overprotective and enabling mothers have come out in defense of their grown baby boys asking such pertinent questions as “Why are you letting this happen to my baby?” “Who is responsible for hurting my baby?” and “Why isn’t the grass softer?”
A Massachusetts man is charged with stabbing someone with a sharp broomhandle and other violent acts.
A former Agriculture committee chair who reportedly urged non-residents to vote in a Windham school election has been named as a county assistant judge.
“If we don’t start working together more, the world’s greatest deliberative body will sink slowly into irrelevance – and, heaven forbid, become our own version of the House of Lords.”
Vermont’s health care reform program just lost the participation of Blue Cross -Blue Shield.
Vermont law enforcement will be briefed by the Border Patrol on the uptick of illegal crossings. “Increased collaboration” is a possibility, but not a certainty.
Legal sports betting will get a serious look in the Vermont Legislature next year.
Federal authorities have added wire fraud to the list of charges related to the murder-for-hire of a Danville man in 2018.
In one of his final acts as a U.S. senator, Patrick Leahy dropped a $1.7 trillion spending bill on the U.S. Congress yesterday.
VTDigger and the New York Times unearth even more donations from FTX founder and fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and his pals to Becca Balint, Peter Welch and the Vermont Democratic Party.
The Vermont Democrat Party should return the nearly $10k it received from Bankman-Fried, so that law enforcement can use that money to make defrauded investors whole.
“The next step is to wait to see if the school board responds to our request to put this on the next school board agenda for January 5,” petition co-organizer Nichole DeLong said Monday. “We will continue this fight – we are just warming up.”
Suppose you’re in the solar energy or nuclear energy or battery business. Should subsidies continue to flow to you or should we have a Manhattan project to commercialize nuclear fusion given evidence that it can be harnessed?
A pro-life priest with a national following and a history of speaking out on Vermont abortion initiatives has been irreversibly removed from the priesthood by the Vatican.
25 governors are concerned about the rise of socialized medicine under guise of the pandemic declaration of a federal Public Health Emergency. But, apparently, not Phil Scott.
The ban on buying gas-powered vehicles was approved November 17 on party lines.
In 2020 the Milton school board ‘buckled like cheap lawn chairs’ and authorized planning for a school district equity policy. Now more than 1000 Milton residents have signed a petition to stop the policy’s adoption.
What is a U.S. Army infantry company doing in Estonia, 20 miles from the Russian border?
From widespread student-led vandalism at UVM to Vermont teachers demanding mental health training, the signs of mental trauma in Vermont schools abound.
“Legislators can fight crime and respond to hate without violating the First Amendment or drafting me into the speech police,” a critic of New York’s new ‘hate speech’ law seeking $1000/day fines says.
What this means for Vermont is that now other high achieving schools, such as Rice Memorial High School (tuition: $12,214) in Burlington and Christ the King (tuition $5,590) in Rutland are available choices for tuitioning students. That’s a good thing.
The weekend blizzard saw almost 25 inches of snowfall in one southern Vermont town, fallen trees and power lines stopping traffic and power, and the Chain Law invoked for trucks on Rte. 9.
A key speaker at a Banned-On-YouTube Burlington seminar on October 25 talks with Vermont Independent about the new technocratic biosecurity surveillance regime.
It appears that I was mistaken in my attack of David Zuckerman, for which I owed him a meeting, and an apology.
Every ship’s captain needs a good executive officer. Vermont’s elected attorney general, secretary of state, and treasurer – all new to the job – have picked Montpelier veterans as their top aides.
Police will be patrolling through January 1 watching for drunk drivers.
The seizure and forfeiture of drug proceeds is an important component of police efforts to disrupt the interstate drug trade, police say.
Help Wanted at the Vermont Speaker of the House office.
A deputy chief has been picked to sit in the Big Chair – and perhaps the hot seat – of the Montpelier Police Department.
Three Vermonters in their 70’s died earlier this week in separate fire and car crash incidents.
The Milton school board appears to be managed by the administration, rather than the school board managing the administration as duly elected representatives of Milton’s citizens.
Which is worse – the river or the trooper, a habitual criminal may have been asking himself early this morning as he shivered in the Barton River.
Young people started dying in greater numbers and for no apparent reason beginning in 2021. A new book asks why.
If Republican candidates were influenced positively by social media censorship and Justice/FBI departments, it would be front page news and scourged for weeks.
Those Drive Electric ads you see with the huckster trying to sell internal combustion to skeptical Vermonters? The real life hucksters were in St. Johnsbury, trying to sell the Clean Heat Standard.
“The cancel culture is real! YouTube has cancelled us!” Restoring Our Faith leaders said today.
Frank shows how our elections are manipulated and how citizens and elected officials can defend and improve election integrity, a Vermont Grassroots statement said.
Beginning tonight, expect up to a foot of heavy snow mixed with rain, to be followed by possible power outages. And watch out for carbon monoxide poisoning!
A former CNN producer from Ludlow Vermont and former CNN news personality Brian Stelter will anchor a new Disney news initiative.
Burlington police needed help from two other police agencies but were still too undermanned to prevent a rear-window escape.
It’s a brave gesture to burn your ships behind you. But what if you still need them to survive?
A Springfield, Massachusetts suspected fentanyl dealer was arrested in the Hastings Street apartment in September.
The boy asked, “Is there any hope that my mother and father could be together at my house on Christmas morning? Can you make this happen, Santa?”
A Southern Vermont man charged with killing his girlfriend has been sent to a state psychiatric hospital.
I never imagined a readership like this when in January, 2017 I started blogging about State House news for a small circle of family and friends.
Presenters said Vermont has a shrinking window to take legislative action. They expressed concern about a vocal minority in the state that is doubtful or dismissive of climate change as a problem.
Since the USPS announced its plans to replace its vehicles in February 2021, there has been a primal scream from the left for nearly all these vehicles to be electric. But there is seldom any concern about the welfare of postal workers.
In 1994, when he began serving in the Vermont State House, “I could not have dreamt this day would come,” Rep. Bill Lippert said after Joe Biden signed into law a 50-state gay marriage law.
A propane torch being used to thaw manure led to a smoldering fire that destroyed a Grand Isle barn.