Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
The Legislature knows replacing crumbling old schools over the next two decades will cost $6 billion. Where will that money come from?
Gov. Scott said he’s open to voting for Democrat Joe Biden. Again.
The police cruiser crashed into a stopped fire truck on I-89.
Two young woman died Saturday afternoon after their car left I-91 and struck a tree.
We didn’t think we’d get out of winter without another good snowstorm, did we?
Like good panhandlers anywhere, the Vermont Legislature knows you can’t push you too hard.
The anglers, hunters and trappers on the current Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board are Vermont’s most committed wildlife advocates and conservationists.
Winooski and Burlington were the big winners in the education funding equity sweepstakes Tuesday. Not Bellows Falls.
The legislative pay hike, Fish & Wildlife Board changes, controlling sheriffs, and above all school funding all have fallen or will likely do so because the Supermajority wants to stay the Supermajority.
Not only does Vermont’s smallest in the nation staff-student ratio cost beaucoup bucks, it also may actually hurt student performance.
Maybe we’ll find out WHY Jeffrey Eaton allegedly shot three Palestinians.
The Washington Central Unified School District (Berlin, Middlesex, Worcester, Calais, and East Montpelier) announced Wednesday night that its budget had failed.
Not only did the fired coach receive 17 times his annual pay, the school establishment admitted he didn’t violate the bullying and hazing policy.
The board of the largest school district with rejected budget has returned to the drawing board.
Amelia Earhart had an important personal connection to Vermont – the wife of the Norwich University president.
She’s been gone since March 1.
An impartial poll worker, I kept my mouth completely shut, to the detriment of my tongue which I frequently had to bite.
Two men shot at a passing car, in what police say may be connected with harassment last month.
School districts and supervisory unions across Vermont said no to school budgets at Town Meeting.
Split-ticket delegates to the National Convention will be picked at the state convention in May.
School budgets, Nikki-Donald, and the Burlington mayoral race are the headliners of the tumultuous Town Meeting of ’24. But there was plenty of other big news.
Here’s what’s happening in Vermont BESIDES the tumultuous Town Meeting of ’24.
When feeling unwell, the main options are primary care, urgent care, and the Emergency Department. Navigating these choices can feel challenging.
Burlington voters pick a Progressive mayor and approve their school budget.
Join VDC for a live, interactive review of 2024 Town Meeting results at 8:30 PM tonight.
Minorities hate wars. We support law and order. We love babies. We want secure borders. We work long hours to ensure our families are living comfortably. We want the American Dream, so we work hard!
See ‘n share this brief reel of Rob Roper’s riff on the intentional complexity of Vermont school funding.
A transmission corridor bringing Hydro-Quebec power to New England through the Northeast Kingdom appears to have been shelved.
Wilson suggests that if Vermont takes up trying to feed the world, then it’s Vermonters who ultimately are going to be left out.
The Vermont Supreme Court said it’s okay to grant bail to a man charged as an accessory to the slaying of a teenager in 2022.
Some former Burlington homeless camp residents have migrated to the stairwells and utility rooms of Decker Towers, a city housing project.
Rob Roper says the exorbitant cost of public education isn’t a bug in the Legislature’s funding system, it’s a feature.
First the governor says he probably won’t vote for his local school budget tomorrow. Now the Chairman of the House Education Committee says he’s not sure how he’ll vote either.
A large slate of current, former elected Republicans – and some Democrats – turned out for Haley campaign stop before tomorrow’s Super Tuesday Vermont presidential primary.
Big embezzlement in Rutland and hit-and-run fatality in South Burlington.
State’s Attorney Eva Vekos is back on the job after an embarrassing DUI and equally embarrassing comments about the cops she works with.
On March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state!
So close, but at the buzzer the winner was…..
Our schools are literally out of our control. But there is a solution.
Trying to control costs of housing Vermont’s homeless.
You might be familiar with the phrase “October Surprise,” where a crucial and election-shaping incident transpires shortly before an election.
I need to tell you what happened AFTER I told a group of people Saturday night how to Become Your Own Media.
Nikki Haley is coming to Vermont Sunday afternoon, and some state GOP leaders are coming out in favor of her over Donald Trump.
State officials are urging patience.
Salisbury hatchery ALIVE. Coyote hunting ban NOT SO MUCH. The latest from the State House.
Remember when the Legislature said it would reform Act 250 to allow more housing? Apparently the Supermajority leaders can’t either.
The children are believed to be with their biological father, who police say may be armed and dangerous.
Paul Burns, the executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group in Montpelier, Xusana Davis, executive director of Racial Equity for the state, and Barbara Prine, a staff attorney at Vermont Legal Aid in Burlington are all listed as have zero cases in federal court.
A judge ordering a Fox News reporter to reveal her sources says he supports freedom of the press, but…..
The 10th Cavalry Regiment, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers, was stationed at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester in the early 1900’s.
Any school district without an approved 2024 budget by July 1 will face the 87% Solution.
Luther allegedly sprayed an individual who was, in fact, a paid cleaner who was cleaning the stairwell.
Burlington’s Bernie Revolution started with such hope. In a video expanded from yesterday’s version, a former Prog now running as a Republican talks about his long march to disillusionment.
Like other Vermonters, Gov. Scott is looking at a ‘significant’ property tax increase.
Bill moved to Burlington in the 1980’s because he was attracted to the socialist movement spearheaded by a Brooklyn-born guy who was making headlines across the country.
Cut us in, California.
Brochu was serving a life without parole sentence for the aggravated murder of 18-year-old Tara Stratton, in Barre in January of 2003.
“Hospital staff noted Paramedic Dame appeared to be impaired. After an evaluation, Ms. Dame was determined to not be fit to perform her duties,” Vermont Health Department spokesman Ben Truman said.
Vermont’s Medicaid pharmacy system has suffered the same cyberattack that struck much of New England.
Stormwater permit compliance will cost up to $1 million per county fair. “You just can’t make that kind of money up at the fairground,” Folsom said.
Moose hearings. Utility scams. Struggle over short-term rentals. Party chair urges GOP to “bank” Town Meeting votes.
The situation was so dire that, the Campaign for Vermont reports, a Democratic state senator looking at a $3,000 property tax increase herself said the pre-H.850 property tax would “put people out of their homes.”
A House bill now under committee review would make it much easier to charge a suspect with felony shoplifting – but would reduce the sentence.
Vermont’s diversity chief, the president of VPIRG, and a Planned Parenthood lawyer are on the selection team for the next U.S. federal judge.
Paintball vandals. Barre man arrested for Bradford traffic disturbance. And border cops and state police collaborate on a bust.
Vermont doctors argue the risk to mental health if THC caps are eliminated. The marijuana industry claims keeping the current cap will be bad for business.
Is it even constitutional to tax unrealized capital gains?
A 15-year-old Maine native now living in Springfield, MA has been charged with felony second-degree murder for a shooting in St. Johnsbury.
In a case with ramifications for S.258, a judge has ruled in favor of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife coyote regulations.
You can almost hear the governor saying “I told you so'” to the Legislature.
A documents search of the Vermont Legislature website shows a strong U.N. advisory presence – especially in one key committee. And just what is a ‘polycrisis?’
“We expect to see a large volume of visitors to the region in the days before, during and after the event. With this in mind, the Lake Champlain Chamber is encouraging cities, towns, and businesses in the region to plan accordingly.”
Opponents of S.258, reconfiguring the Fish & Wildlife Board, speak out in this VDC video of a Tuesday, February 20 State House gathering.
A Bigfoot heard in Orleans County? You decide. NOT Satire. Because it’s Friday.
A woman who dragged and injured a police officer with her car served four months after her sentence last November. Now she’s free.
The woman’s mother reported her missing. Hours later her body was found in woods in the small town of Washington.
The Bennington lawmaker won’t be contesting the charge, a spokesperson for House Democrats said.
The Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee Wednesday has made a bill strongly opposed hunting advocates even more restrictive.
“We should know more within 12 hours,” a Verizon boilerplate message says about an inquiry into “potential network disruption” in Barre.
Big power plant’s effort to recover heat loss gets a look by regulators. Cops banned for cellphone pix, voyeurism. Popular speakers join Supreme Court free speech case.
Ley: “We failed when we support a Governor who refused to vote for the best president in recent history.” Dame: “I think the blame goes both ways – right? There’s plenty of Republicans Donald Trump refuses to support.”
A frustrated – or just rude – state senator interrupts the testimony of a Vermont Family Alliance advocate. See brief YouTube clip.
A patch of thin ice was the scene of a family riding a side-by-side plunging into the icy waters of Lake Memphremagog Saturday.
The same influential lobby group that wants to remove local control from energy siting also wants ratepayers to pay more to fund the reconstruction of Vermont’s energy grid.
Senate committees this week will ponder amending the Constitution to control sheriffs and make gender ID a protected civil right.
The Legislature’s War on the Age of Consent is fought on the battlefields of schools, libraries, voting booths, and health clinics
Mid-December flooding that produced some PTSD in flood-shocked Vermonters has elicited a request of federal disaster relief from Gov. Phil Scott.
A bill expected to pass the Legislature this week will allow towns to postpone Town Meeting in hopes of voting on reduced school spending.
Two House committees punt on the billion-dollar price-tag of an energy bill rumored to be ‘the Speaker’s bill drafted by a renewable energy lobbying organization.
Most bills need to be approved in their committee of jurisdiction by March 15 in order to be taken up for a full vote this year. Committees will be pushing hard until then.
S.258 would seize rule-making power from the Fish & Wildlife Board, expand the role of non-hunters, and prohibit coyote hunting with bait and dogs.
Montpelier Police tried unsuccessfully to get Sicely to surrender during the day. Later the State Police Crisis Negotiators also made a try, but he still refused to budge. State Police eventually deployed a form of tear gas and Sicely surrendered.
Lately I am realizing that the “you” in “we need you more than ever” is a plural that refers to our whole team – me, my indispensable copy editor Tim Page, reporter Mike Bielawski, and social media director Paul Bean – as well as the score of other regular contributors.
A new House bill takes the option out of the local option tax.
Closing the Salisbury fish hatchery is a budget cut that will have disastrous effects for fishing in Vermont.
A Vermont mammal has died of the highly pathogenic avian flu.
The Public Utilities Commission ‘checkback’ report resisted by climate hawk supporters of the Clean Heat Standard has been issued – and it’s not good news for them.
Public safety dispatch upgrade planning: two years. Unemployment insurance computer: four years away.
Among the many issues connected to the board are complaints from former members of bigotry and racism while townsfolk have complained of incompetence and social justice activism from members violating the stated charter function.
The Ukrainian mastermind behind the devastating 2020 ransomware attack on Vermont’s largest hospital has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court.
