When this year’s significant housing bill, S.100, arrived at the House’s Committee on Housing, many of the members were looking forward to conducting thoughtful legislation to collaborate and make it possible to increase the housing stock in our state.

Columnist George Will will speak at the Ethan Allen Institute dinner May 31. What would his speech sound like if written by ChatGPT? Could you tell the difference?

According to the Tax Foundation, in 2022 Vermont already had the 4th highest state and local tax burden in the country at 13.6 percent. But, oh, wait till next year!  

Who do you know who is slated to get a raise of 23% plus?  Answer: Your local legislator! And what’s more, that’s only part of the story—it gets worse!

The current supermajority rules and it is all about programs and committees, out-of-state agendas, and a huge growing bureaucracy. Who really stands to benefit? The very few elites.

The term convention of states (COS) can be confusing to the average citizen given its vague federal and constitutional implications. What are the risks if any? 

Doubtless this new religion will eventually be challenged by American secular jurisprudence. The outcome of that court battle will determine whether America remains a land of the Constitutionally free.

H89 and S37, the so-called shield bills, do not extend equal personal reproductive protection as required under Article 22.  

Could the real existential threat to Vermont maple syrup be very actions taken to prevent climate change?

Government should allow and encourage (not require, not subsidize) more building of less expensive housing including rental units.

Banning sales of certain classes of firearms because they can be used in mass shootings – the so-called “assault weapons” ban – was tried for ten years with approximately zero positive results.

House committee clarifies it’s a (very limited) “throttle down.”

You, like me, may not even bother to look out the windows on a daily basis to lament the sad goings on in our world.

Whereas progressive European countries are pursuing science-based policies, the VPA is listening only to wildly biased, unscientific opinions of ideological activists. 

Authentic Vermont embodies agriculture, self-sufficiency and independence, a strong work ethic, healthy communities and families, faith and honorable values and fiscal responsibility.

The Sunk Cost Fallacy is the notion that once an entity invests in something, it becomes harder to walk away from it.

Sen. Ram Hinsdale urges readiness to house massive numbers of climate refugees.

When have we ever witnessed an awards celebration for electric line workers?

Your future financial wellbeing may not be as bright as you might have hoped for.

Green’s point remains undeniable that low-income Vermonters cannot afford the upfront costs of taking even the most rudimentary clean heat measures.

Both youth patients and their parents are reporting the lack of informed consent in growing testimonies and lawsuits against “gender-affirming” health care. 

It is time to pull the plug on the Un-Affordable Heat Act.   This bill should die in the House Energy Committee.

Is Vermont as we have loved it… disappearing?

I have had a clinical nutrition practice in St. Johnsbury for over two decades and I have worked with 68 people struggling with vaccine injury.  The majority of their primary care providers were not familiar with the Health and Human Services’ Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.