Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
“In the decade I’ve been involved in Republican politics we’ve never had a better reason to celebrate not only our wins from November, but also the incredible momentum we have with us looking ahead to 2026,” GOP state Chair Paul Dame says.
Whether you are an experienced CDL driver, purchase driver, or owner-operator in this article you will get more information on which states are currently providing the best opportunities for you and which are the worst in order to plan your job and life in the best possible way for 2025.
“ATF is asking for your assistance in identifying any firearms purchases made by Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, a person of interest in the shooting of a Customs and Border Protection Officer,” the agency said in a bulletin to gun dealers.
…..And FBI confirms Youngblut connection to two homicides in Pennsylvania and California.
Vermont is 75% forest (4.46 million acres.) In fact, trees consume half of Vermont’s total C02 emissions,
Legionnaires’ kills VT senior. Big housing project in Shelburne.
Snyder and Youngblut had both attended the swanky, private Lakeside School in Seattle and were interested in computer science.
About those State House lobbyists….
“Taxpayers also made it clear they want us to fix broken systems not just fund them,” Scott said.
The report also suggests that municipalities should have the option to opt out of the ban via a vote at their annual meeting.
Will Medicaid for immigrants and transgender treatment imperil federal Medicaid funding for Vermont? Candidate Bruce Busa weighs in on the Battle of Bennington-1.
This bill is in the House Health Care Committee while the Trump Administration on Tuesday issued an executive order banning federal funds for healthcare facilities that continue with such procedures.
“There are far too many people with hundreds of law enforcement encounters, dozens of arrests and many active criminal court cases. Yet they’re still walking free,” Scott told the Legislature.
Snyder was an award-winning data science student. Bauckholt won national math competitions in Germany and collegiate math competitions in Canada.
The Seattle Times reported both graduated from the Lakeside School: Snyder in 2020 and Youngblut in 2022. Snyder went on to Oxford where he studied computer science and philosophy.
Less recidivism through swifter court action – but not necessarily more jail time.
Pushback against tariffs, psych unit shutdown, suspension of refugee funding.
When the hearing ended, Carla Youngblut attempted to make hand signals to her daughter, but she had no reaction.
Vermonters played a significant role in the colonists’ assertion for independence from Great Britain, from the Green Mountain Boys successful assault at Fort Ticonderoga to the Battle of Hubbardton, and to the Battle of Bennington where Vermont troops helped defeat a British force to set up the victories that turned the war in favor of the new Americans.
Under the Saunders plan, every district receives the same funding per student, adjusted for certain items such as non-English learners.
Details about the killing and the two suspects.
The police report indicated her parents believed Youngblut was being forced to cut off contact with her family and friends due to the personal relationship she had entered, the Seattle Times reports.
The 17 year locusts of school consolidation is back – again.
A former federal inspector general living in Vermont says enforcement must be done to protect our friends, family, and neighbors who followed the rules and fled from the people entering illegally who can and do harass them and recruit their children into the criminal theft, extortion, robbery, and drug gangs they fled in hope for a new life here.
Youngblut is charged with intentional use of a deadly weapon while forcibly assaulting a federal law enforcement and with discharging a firearm during an assault with deadly weapon, records show.
A bill introduced today would allow all Vermont students to attend the school of the student’s choice, paid for by a School Choice Grant issued by the Agency of Education.
Police also seized approximately 31.62 grams of cocaine in 36 individually wrapped baggies, 0.17 grams of crack cocaine, items to suggest drug sales, and $280 in cash.
Maland is believed to be the first federal law enforcement officer to be killed in the line of duty in Vermont since a few deaths in the Prohibition era.
Shiffrin healed, ready to race. Pot dealer sues over advertising restrictions. More opioid settlement $$.
Trump has defeated the media, the Democratic party, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bushes, the Bidens, and the American Dream.
His computer/math skills were so highly prized by the finance industry that the German national was working in the U.S. on a visa type given only to immigrants with “extraordinary ability.”
The gang’s activities, which include murder, gun and drug trafficking, arson, and extortion, have been part of an extensive RICO conspiracy.
Ski resorts look ahead to the holiday weekend.
“The younger demographic is choosing not to drink, not to drink as much. And so those are some trends that are impacting the consumption and the sale of alcohol.”
In your car or while you’re making dinner, listen to an in-depth podcast interview with Vermont’s highly quotable new lieutenant governor.
The suit names Copley Hospital and Lund, an agency that operates a home for mothers in crisis. The lawsuit says the state’s action violates the 2022 constitutional amendment protecting reproductive freedom.
The federally funded ‘all-solar’ initiative (more on that in an upcoming story by Paul Bean) comprises about 10% of that figure.
Government must both protect civil liberties and promote public safety, and “we are clearly not striking the right balance,” Scott said. “The safety of the public comes first.”
Without comment, and with a demeanor described by the sergeant as “affectless”, Jones held up a meat cleaver and pointed it towards the sergeant and raised it over his head.
Vermonters will be keeping a close eye on this EDI committee as they work through the Telecommunications Plan, the Clean Heat Standard report from the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and the mandate for emission reductions as mapped out in the currently enacted Global Warming Solutions Act.
California has withdrawn one zero emissions truck proposal, but the other – which Vermont is connected to – is still in force.
He told the longtime Vermont Yankee operators to take solace in the words of St. Paul: “I have fought the good fight, I have run the race.”
Police staffing (or lack of it) front and center of Burlington City Council meeting.
Use this sortable list to contact your Representative and committees working on bills of interest to you.
“Affordability is about getting by,” Sen. Rebecca White said in her nominating tribute to Sen. Phil Baruth.
Radio station owner and history-making car enthusiast…..sounds a little like Ken Squier.
Nicotine pouch use up. So are egg prices – bird flu? Native American Commission leader steps down.
It’s part of a planned deployment, not a reaction to current events. And the temporary transfer of some Lightnings to an airbase in Japan will mean fewer flights over Vermont skies.
Wanted on six felony charges stemming from a December rape.
In a scenario that will play out across the Legislature’s committees, the administration leaders will offer a brief education on their agencies and departments under committee jurisdiction. Lawmakers will listen and ask questions. Both will put names to faces and build rapport, the better to get their work done.
The Commission on the Future of Public Education issued its interim report ahead of the holidays with very little to show, and now everyone is rethinking their existence.
Also part of the early morning raid at the mobile home on West Hill Road were officers from Randolph and Burlington Police.
It is unclear why the press release is missing the standard information for a somewhat routine case. Is it due to poor drafting by BPD’s Public Information Officer? Or was the news release slashed by the red editing pen wielded by the Mayor?
Market 32 crash caper culprit caught. And a Windham County woman arrested for failing to secure toddler in car seat.
The shocking news of yet another fire in California has been overshadowing the Cinderella story of the City of Angels slowly turning into the Isle of Lesbos.
Volunteers from a venerable social club deliver 25,000 meals.
Teacher, Army officer, Emerge Vermont director, Navy pilot, and Lincoln homestead director comprise the backgrounds of members of a key Senate committee.
The new Republican vice-chair of the budget-building House Appropriations Committee quotes Gov. Phil Scott: “We’re not here to worry about egos. We’re here to do what Vermonters need.”
Wanted on six felony charges stemming from a December rape.
Week #1 in the Legislature. Progressive mayor issues gag order on her cops. What the LA fires mean to Vermont. Please share on your social media.
Vermont News First was among those left off the invitation list.
After presiding over the Governor’s swearing-in as well as the Secretary of State, Treasurer, and Attorney General, Rodgers remarked that “I haven’t heard this much swearin’ since I was back on the farm.”
If the Legislature can be likened to high school (and it can), then committee chairs are the Big Men on Campus, setting the agenda and tone for the rest of the ‘student body.’
Burlington resident to mayor: “This is how you mark Law Enforcement Appreciation Day?”
Vermont man recalls Carter visit. Rhodes Scholar headed to Oxford from Vermont.
Burlington’s Progressive mayor censors police statements about arrests.
Vermont’s state tax burden is already the third-highest in the nation, according to a U.S. Census graph. The #1 state, North Dakota, taxes fracked gas extracted from the earth. “We don’t produce enough maple syrup to make much of a difference,” one State House pro-business lobbyist quipped.
George’s statement calling the November 25, 2023 shooting of three Palestinian men in Burlington a ‘hateful act’ may have violated Vermont’s code of conduct for prosecutors.
House Republicans will have an enhanced leadership role in legislation about education, taxation, spending, housing and other important issues.
“I’ve been swinging a hammer for a lot of years,” laughed the lifelong farmer/contractor. “I think I can handle a gavel.”
California, you strain at the gnat of EV mandates while swallowing the camel of the fiery destruction of millions of acres of woodlands.
Lt. Gov. (for one more day) David Zuckerman told VDC he will be a regular host on WDEV’s Vermont Viewpoint, the station’s 9-11 AM public affairs call-in show.
Brock told VDC in the hallway that “amidst conversations with the Republican caucus we determined that it would not be the proper action at this time to oppose Senator Baruth but that could be readdressed in the future. Do you know what pro tempore means in Latin? President for the time being.”
Before the ballots were distributed, several lawmakers praised Krowinski’s even temperament.
Sen. Gulick serves as an unpaid regional representative on the VSBA Board of Directors, representing the Western Chittenden Region.
Donald Price was not wearing a seatbelt when his eastbound Nissan Frontier struck a Subaru Outback driven by Cynthia Brown, 67, of Randolph.
The program would provide criminal and civil immunity from liability to participating dealers for any harm resulting from the dealer’s acceptance, storage, return, or refusal to return the firearm.
State’s Attorney Sarah George supports the gag order motion, Reynolds’ lawyer claimed. A joint filing by both defense lawyer and prosecutor is expected soon, he said.
The deceased was not wearing a seat belt.
Harvey is a 5th generation Vermonter born and raised in the Green Mountain State. Over a decade-long career in financial services, he held various roles at the New York Stock Exchange and its parent, Intercontinental Exchange, a Fortune 500 technology and data services company.
Learn the four things that must be true to legally justify the use of deadly force.
Elections have consequences for party leaders who lose a supermajority. Will House Speaker Jill Krowinski be next?
Big changes at the top this month south AND north of Derby Line and Highgate border crossings.
The challenge stems from voter checklist errors that resulted in Pownal residents receiving ballots for the wrong House district, an issue brought to light after the November 5 election, in which Democrat Jonathan Cooper unofficially defeated Republican Bruce Busa by 23 votes.
As the challenger to incumbent House Speaker Jill Krowinski pleads for Republican support, an influential columnist and former GOP State Chair calls on the House GOP caucus to run their own candidate.
Vermont’s Secretary Agency of Natural Resources is now being sued on ‘both sides’ of the political spectrum for a law seeking to recover billions from Big Oil.
With the loud public outcry this week, Deml said he ordered a further review of Breer’s case “due to my concern regarding the significant risk he poses to public safety and the Department’s ability to effectively supervise him in the community.”
After appeals for mercy from his family and employer, and despite the evidence justifying a harsher sentence, Judge Michael Kainen sentenced Robert Maximov, 28, of East Haven to 21 days in jail, citing his traumatic childhood in Russian orphanages as a mitigating factor.
The suspect has said he’d rather be shot by police than arrested.
Burlington Dems name council candidates. Bucks for Barre building stir spending controversy.
The investigation is continuing into the origin and cause of the fire.
The legislature and the majority as a whole have reached a pivotal point where they will have to decide whether or not they want to attempt to implement the CHS by increasing taxes in fees or if they instead want to incentive the switch the energy transition with tax-breaks and “carrots,” Beck explained.
“We can confirm that the person identified in media reports completed an online degree in 2019 in strategic studies and defense analysis,” a Norwich spokesperson told VDC yesterday.
Rather than take voters’ cue to slow down on expensive energy policy, EAN urges the Legislature to stay the course with the fossil-fuel to electricity transition at home and on the roads. But even leading climate hawks in the Senate aren’t so sure.
Warm temps and low water at a nearby pond make for tough sledding in Brattleboro.
“This is an inherent conflict of interest to have a person employed, or even recently employed, by a lobbying organization leading a policy-making committee,” Kinsley said.
The couple from Wilder have named two of their children after Princess Leia’s parents.
A 77-year-old school bus driver has been cited for grossly negligent operation after the Waterbury school bus he was driving struck a 12-year-old.
The adult woman defended herself and struck the man in the face, possibly causing cuts.
The first shot across the bow in the Sanctuary State legal war has been fired.
