Vermonters will go to Town Meeting today (some went last night) to decide – by ballot or from the floor – on important municipal issues.
Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
Vermonters will go to Town Meeting today (some went last night) to decide – by ballot or from the floor – on important municipal issues.
The clock rolled down to five minutes left in the game…when it happened…
“We crafted a complete hard stop for the plan being developed under the affordable heat act,” Sen. Chris Bray tells a constituent.
Stole a Lexus. Stole a pickup truck. Led cops on eight mile chase, police say. An Alabama man was lodged with $200 bail and will face a judge Wednesday.
Is anyone helping the Rohingya, surely the least fortunate people group on earth?
A bill co-sponsored by a powerful House chair would completely retool the Vermont economy – as advised by People’s Assemblies.
The chair of the Cannabis ‘Control’ Board is taking the marijuana industry’s side on raising the THC potency cap. A medical advocate said, “We know that we are speaking against an industry, and this is a billion-dollar industry, and similar to big tobacco they’re huge and it’s very difficult for lawmakers to vote against them. It’s very difficult for people to not want that revenue.”
Child care funding was supposed to be a top priority for the 2023 Legislature. Now a key Senate committee is in the dark about what it all will cost.
A career IBMer and outdoor enthusiast has been named to the Fish & Wildlife Board.
To lawmakers supporting S.5, people of limited resources are collateral damage.
The bill would create People’s Assemblies to write a Regenerative Economy Roadmap that would make Vermont a 90% Regenerative Economy by 2046.
Vermont’s news media are rattled and upset. They lost control of the narrative on S.5, the Affordable Heating Act.
In the medieval era, the establishment forgave the rich their sins – for a fee. Now it sells them carbon credits.
A Russian-born software and electrical engineer has been arrested for causing an explosion at a power grid transformer site.
A convicted sex offender, who has spent 30 years in mental institutions because he mailed death threats to Vermont news reporters and a state prosecutor, has been quietly released from federal custody to live in Winooski, court records show
A landmark Vermont inn, famed as a conference center and four-season travel destination, is fighting back against a lawsuit charging discrimination against LGBTQ and women employees.
On March 9, 1791, Vermont was admitted as the 14th State of the Union – the first after the original 13 colonies.
Off-an-on heavy snows since Wednesday last week, and at least one erratic driver, led to several reported accidents.
“Your tax dollars fund this group. You tell me if we got our money’s worth.”
“We do not support S.66. It would significantly alter the independent school landscape in Vermont,” Agency of Education Secretary Dan French said.
There is cause for concern about the study period. It establishes the first part of the expanding bureaucracy necessary to implement and supervise the program.
A strong supporter of Vermont’s renewable power industry has introduced a bill to require utilities to buy less and less power from Hydro-Quebec every year.
“I had no idea the General was so upset. He seemed like such a happy guy on the outside,” commented long time friend and former cereal killer Count Chocula.
ChatGPT makes up a lot of stuff.
After City Meeting elections next week, the Onion City will have Vermont’s first-ever all LGBTQ+ city council.
The sounds of fighting were followed by a loud ‘bang’ in a Malletts Bay apartment. Police found a dead man and a dead woman.
Masks requested but not required at Hate Free Forum in St. Albans.
You hear a gunshot. Outside your house you see a half dozen men in camo and toting guns. Within 24 hours are are charged with murder.
Judges are letting scofflaws treat court appointments like dinner reservations or hair appointments, says the Grand Isle County prosecutor.
Back then, the Birkenhaus was my second home, and Ann and Emo my second parents. In one of the more insane decisions ever, my first parents drove from New Jersey to Stratton almost every weekend in winter.
What’s cheaper: paying for someone else’s solar power subsidies, or planting trees? Either way the carbon footprint shrinks.
Faced with a housing shortage and skyrocketing housing costs, the Vermont Legislature wants more urban duplexes and quadplexes. And fewer garages.
A Vermont education newsletter reports on a bi-racial Bennington County teacher who sued and won for wrongful termination.
If enacted as introduced, AHA will be the largest and most expensive social program ever paid for by Vermonters.
Sometimes, they get it right.
The Vermont media has discovered the story of David Mid-Vermont Christian School protesting against playing a basketball team with a 6’4″ transgender player. And in two communities, Indian-sounding team names are okay, after all.
Our purpose is to understand what happens when a community organizes itself around these ideas. It will either grow into the utopia that all dream it will, or it will become a dystopian warning.
Unlike some who are leading the charge on the so-called “Clean Heat Standard.” ANR Secretary Julie Moore has nothing personal to gain from it passing, or not passing, Gov. Phil Scott said.
Every time the state’s Child Protection Registry allegations are challenged, the state is found to be lacking the necessary evidence.
NEWS ITEM: Vermont House introduces repeal of state prostitution law.
Why the retreat, dare we call it a rout? (Think Custer at Little Big Horn.)
Original VDC Political Cartoon by F.W. Geer
This year’s big Climate Bill now has a required two-year study.
Rodent’s posteriors came into play in a lively committee discussion about a condom stealth bill.
The Chicago mayor who presided over a shocking increase in murders and homelessness has been voted out of office in a Democratic primary.
Homeless hotels will still be open after May 31, but rules for who stays there will be tightened. Also, a senator wants to make GPS firms accountable for those annoying stuckages in Smugglers Notch.
The State of Vermont will hold public hearings on big game management later this month.
A split power line led to the release of partially-treated wastewater.
It is mean-spirited and unnecessary to try to silence PRCs and open them up to investigations by abortion ideologues.
Despite the radical reassessment of ‘transitioning’ taking place in Europe, a Vermont law would shield service providers from legal consequences and require Vermonters to pay for ‘gender-affirming services’ via Medicaid and other health insurers.
Lively online discussion between pro-S.5 senators and Vermonters who oppose the ‘Affordable Heating Act.’
A bill requiring gun lockup is unconstitutional and education on the firearms/suicide nexus is more effective than regulation, Second Amendment rights advocates told a House committee last week – to no avail.
Love and marriage won’t go together like a horse and carriage for Vermont teenagers. But at the school meals will be free (for them) and DMV won’t suspend anyone’s driver’s license for not paying a speeding ticket.
Winooski officials say they need more antiracism and diversity training before putting someone new in the position.
A woman later evaluated for mental problems grabbed a two-year-old from a mom on a GMT bus, police say. Bystanders helped the mother recover the child.
Today in Vermont, polarization, lack of civility, and disagreement are as present as maple trees.
The more you learn about the misnamed Affordable Heating Act, the less you like it.
Authorities are on the scene of an 11:45 AM collision between an Amtrak train and a tractor trailer on Quarry Road near Vermont Route 14 in Sharon.
Two state troopers are on paid leave – with no official reason given. Their suspension follows reports of off-duty state troopers engaging in inappropriate speech while playing a video game.
Neither Sen. Bernie Sanders nor then-Sen. Patrick Leahy supported a Senate bill requiring a vote on a WHO pandemic treaty critics say threatens U.S. national sovereignty.
It’s official: the public school system is broken – costs are rising, scores are falling, violence is on the rise, and “teachers are literally scared and administrators are at a loss.”
A manhole covered knocked askew by a snowplow resulted in a 15 foot plunge at midnight by a St. Albans woman.
Crime update – everything from a damaged covered bridge to a harrowing kidnapping and attempted murder in the Northeast Kingdom to (another) human smuggling bust at the Canadian border.
Culture commentator Jordan Peterson saw the news about a Quechee girls team forfeiting against a team with a 6’4″ trans center, and tweeted “it’s about time” to his 3.7 million followers.
I’m realistic enough to know H.74 will not be considered in today’s political majority in Montpelier. However, I will not stop in advocating for a balance in what Vermonters can achieve and afford in efforts to reduce our green house gas emissions.
Most of the time when I speak with a legislator in favor of S.5, I hear buzzwords. Enough buzzwords to fall drunk to the floor.
Bird flu spillover to people has already happened. The only question is: will an avian pandemic become a human one?
He served in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of captain and earned the Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal for his service in Vietnam.
An aggressive Legislature is pushing fear and unaffordable climate, housing and school meals policies.
Why would three separate oil facilities owned by a Mexican company have explosions in a 24-hour period?
Nearly one in three girls seriously considered attempting suicide – up nearly 60% from a decade ago.
Every weekday I go to my post office box in Montpelier, slip the big, industrial strength key into #1547, and hope to see a letter from a reader.
Long-expected repeal of criminal prostitution introduced into Vermont House.
My mother told me when you point a finger be careful because you have four fingers pointing back at you. And there has been no bigger purveyor of malarkey throughout this process than Bray.
Anna Gagne of Swanton says no matter what Montpelier does, the fight to end abortion will never be over. And MM from Montpeculiar wonders about those speeding, cell-phone talking lawmaker/motorists he views around the Capitol City.
Senators spar over the costs, straightforwardness, and even the name of the controversial Affordable Heating Act (AHA).
Bills to repeal state law prohibiting prostitution and disorderly conduct and mushroom hallucinogen have been introduced into the Vermont House.
Samuel Bankman-Fried and others agreed that he and his co-conspirators should contribute at least a million dollars to a super PAC that was supporting a candidate running for a United States Congressional seat and appeared to be affiliated with pro-LGBTQ issues, a new federal indictment says.
The victim of a Feb. 5 shooting is recovering, and the alleged shooter is being held in the women’s prison.
No-one was injured in a big weather-related commuter pileup in Franklin County this morning. However, a single-car crash in Hartford yesterday killed the driver and a passenger.
It’s probably easier to explain how crypto currency works than to explain how this bill will work. Or what it will cost.
“Crumbling infrastructure will not heal itself,” a municipal leader echoed Gov. Phil Scott’s call for budgeting $150 million in matching funds for federal $$ to repair state highways and bridges.
WCAX has footage of a young man looking and acting out of his mind attacked a Burlington woman in a wheelchair at night as she was going to the drugstore.
A woman from Ecuador driving a car with Connecticut license plates was charged in court for attempting to transport three illegal aliens.
Francois Clemmons won a Grammy, played a lead supporting role on Mr. Rogers, and returned to Addison County to teach and perform at Middlebury College.
“We withdrew from the tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players,” a Vermont school headmistress said.
S.5, the Affordable Heating Act, goes to the ‘how much will it cost the taxpayer’ committee this afternoon.
A very low standard of proof combined with bureaucratic timidity makes it very easy to be added to the registry.
Peter Welch wants home energy report accessibility (yawn). Becca Balint joins gun safety task force (no surprise). HEY – what’s Bernie doing in a TikTok dance video?!
Thanks to new American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines, child obesity may join the already long list for which lawyers bring malpractice suits against doctors.
A Hartland woman finally knows who murdered her sister in Burlington in 1971.
Will America soon be begging for immigrants to come? And by the way – all the climate doomsday scenarios are bogus because they ignore Peak People.
In the age of ‘equity,’ wealth-creating home equity becomes less and less attainable for young and lower income Vermonters.
He was only the second African-American on the medical school faculty. With his wife Lydia, he bought, restored, and worked a farm in Charlotte – now the non-profit Clemmons Family Farm.
Two anti-hunting and trapping bills introduced by a former Colorado wildlife worker would leave Vermonters defenseless against problem bears, coyotes, and problem furbearers such as beavers which cause flooding and raccoons which carry rabies, the Sportsmen’s Alliance says.
Youth leaving foster care often struggle on their own. A Windsor County senator wants the State to provide them with a monthly stipend.
A well-known radio personality visits the State House to inform lawmakers, media and visitors about an alternative housing option.
The State House is populated by a climate claque whose only villain is carbon emissions. Nothing else matters to these true believers.
After hitting a woman staff member with a urinal, an ER patient taunted, “this is Vermont. What are they going to do?”
Two epihanies, actually. A senator admits the Senate doesn’t do things to help poor people, but must save the world instead. And, there just aren’t enough workers to weatherize, etc. enough to meet self-imposed carbon reduction mandates.