Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
The grandson of a Vermont superior court judge and nephew of a well-known campaign ‘surrogate’ for Bernie Sanders faces charges of threatening terrorism and conspiracy to commit assault.
Crisis struck. With two whole beach days left, I finished my designated beach book.
Despathy is perhaps Vermont’s most outspoken opponent of the hypocrisy of equity advocates supporting S.5, the climate reduction bill that adversely punishes poor rural Vermonters and rewards a renewable energy industry benefiting from horrific third world mining of essential metals.
Major differences remain.
50% of (birth-registered) males experience complications from gender-assignment surgery – pain, surgical site bleeding, urinary dysfunction, sexual dysfunction. For (birth-registered) females, hysterectomy causes sterility.
Remember when the FBI went after Islamic terrorists and the KKK? Now they’re going after pro-life activists in Christian churches.
With the pool of future accountants already thinning, ESG will add another layer of distracting responsibility. And the fraudsters are waiting.
Bruce Erdmann was sentenced for a 2021 cocaine deal which resulted in a non-fatal overdose.
Setting up a rental registry proved so costly that House leaders have dropped implementation in favor of a study.
The House will vote this week on allowing 16-year-olds to vote in local Brattleboro elections.
A big legislative pay hike and hefty benefits package are on tomorrow’s Senate agenda.
A high school principal goes on TikTok to tell students to stop ordering pizza and Starbucks deliveries during the school day – or else.
Rescue workers pulled a two-year-old boy from a brook in Clarksburg, MA after his Readsboro, VT father dropped him while leaving the scene of an early Saturday morning crash.
Windham, Orange and Caledonia counties ranked 1-2-3 in effective property tax rates. Chittenden and Lamoille were near or at the bottom.
A bill prohibiting biologically-male transgender students from playing school sports designated for girls or women has been introduced into the Vermont Legislature – and immediately labeled as “hate” by transgender activists.
The problem is that independent pharmacies are getting paid less than what it costs to fill the prescription for the patient.
Rep. Brian Smith asked Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark if she could defeat a Global Warming Solutions Act lawsuit brought by an environmental group.
I became a self-avowed atheist. Not just a happy-go-lucky atheist. A radical atheist – one that reveled in the oratorical brilliance of Hitchens as he verbally dismantled cohorts of Christian apologists.
At what point do dump fees become so high that people leave their household trash and old couch on the side of the road? Especially if they are feeding their children, or feeding an addiction.
The Vermont House of Representatives voted to give $16 million of state funds to the new BHS demolition and construction project and rejected a lawmaker’s request for a refund if Burlington wins its suit against Monsanto.
A retailer with 39 Vermont stores continues to overcharge customers nationwide, a recent report claims.
John Sandvil lost his battle to PTSD after a distinguished military career, including combat in Iraq. On May 12, friends and loved ones will honor him with a motorcycle ride to his resting place in Randolph.
“All I do out back is knock it down and prevent the water from flooding everybody’s property,” Lyman said. However, the Town of Hinesburg has taken action.
The enviros are sometimes willing to allow more more housing in urban areas – but never, ever out in the countryside.
Burning biofuels and biomass emits as much CO2 as fossil fuels and should not be exempted from S.5, the proposed carbon reduction law, Stop VT Biomass says.
Conceived in Liberty and born to immigrant parents in 1776, America died today after a brief illness. For many, it is hard to believe that she is gone.
As followers of Jesus Christ celebrate Holy Week, Vermonters more sympathetic to other gods are showing support for legal abortion and prostitution.
A 38-year-old resident of a Brattleboro homeless shelter axed the facility director to death Monday, police say.
Police found drugs, cash and guns at a Barre Town home yesterday morning.
The bill sets goals for conserving 30 percent of Vermont’s total land area and waters by 2030 and 50 percent by 2050. This would include all state, federal, municipal and private lands.
Holocaust Remembrance Day will be celebrated in Stowe April 16.
A college student was arrested in Springfield with the help of the Springfield Police Dept. for allegedly threatening to kill a member of congress.
There are so many reasons for compassionate, conservation-minded people to oppose S.5 – pick at least one and tell your House representative, Alison Despathy advises.
Did you know that 12-year-olds can keep insurance information confidential from parents? The Vermont House Health Care Committee didn’t, until yesterday.
A human/canine search and rescue team yesterday found the body of Rebecca Ball in a wooded area in Weybridge.
Link provided to Alvin Bragg’s 16-page indictment of former Pres. Donald Trump.
The Senate bill allowing more housing density in cities but not in rural areas gets its first look in the House this afternoon.
Sandra Dragon was a force of nature.
Beta Technologies, Vermont’s emerging electric air transport manufacturer, will get a visit from First Lady Jill Biden tomorrow.
UVM’s announcement of a ‘voluntary resolution’ of a federal investigation into campus anti-semitism contains no admission of wrong-doing, no apology, and no specific plans to address anti-semitism.
Middlebury College quietly removed Mead’s name from the marble building on the morning of Sept. 27, 2021, for what it said was his role “in promoting eugenics policies in the state that led to the involuntary sterilization of an estimated 250,” the lawsuit filed by former Gov. James Douglas stated.
After participating in a post-game brawl that shocked the state and made national news, an Alburgh man suffered a fatal heart attack in his car.
A Hartford CT man is dead in what police say was a targeted shooting.
A former congressman who almost became NY governor last year will speak at a GOP dinner in South Burlington.
A disease first reported in Nantucket in 1969 is now endemic to Vermont.
C-130s are HUGE. Landing them on ice requires a special rig of landing gear, as Vermont soldiers discovered.
Do House leaders have enough votes to pass a bill restricting public tuition to private schools? And are they worried about the overburdened camel’s bite?
In its first year, the paid family medical and safety leave ‘contribution’ would be .55% of earnings. Every year, it would be adjusted to cover all of the likely claims.
When males are allowed to compete in women’s sports, they routinely displace women and girls, robbing them of their constitutionally protected right to equal opportunity and victories they’ve worked so hard for.
A man arrested on drug charges died in Bennington police custody yesterday afternoon. Also, police report several other deaths and death-related incidents this week.
Somebody needed to do this because nobody else dared. So thank you, Julie Moore!
A Montana lawmaker says that with the Border Patrol overwhelmed on the southern border, terrorists and cartels are focusing on the less-defending northern border.
The pandemic is over. Unemployment is near an all-time low. The federal funding ends March 31.
Workers comp will cover firefighters for on-duty related forms of cancer under a bill that passed the Senate.
We’re going fishin’. But you will still be able to read new news and commentary in the Chronicle next week.
$200K to convert a former high school into a multi-purpose community center, etc..
The truth is solar is very expensive. You must pay for it three times over.
In California, the peaceful prayer presence on the sidewalk has resulted in a doubling of no-shows for scheduled abortion appointments, a Planned Parenthood executive fumes.
Climate-minded senators want to expel fossil fuel stocks from the pension fund portfolio. The state’s fund investors say it’s a bad idea.
Two Springfield, MA men and a Holyoke MA man are wanted in connection with a shooting over a year ago.
Black made an emotionally-charged, first-person appeal to her House colleagues during a lengthy floor speech yesterday afternoon in support of H230, the suicide prevention/gun control bill.
Of all the background-check-passing gun store purchases conducted in Vermont in the last 10 years, two have resulted in suicides.
Critics of H483 worry it will create hardships – and maybe even close – private schools now receiving public tuition.
The Supreme Court specifically prohibits requiring locks on guns stored at home – one of the provisions in a bill on the House floor today.
The optimistic name is gone, but the controversial contents remain: S.5 is now in the House.
“Anybody who was ever in the military or the Boy Scouts probably has marched to that song,” lead sponsor John Arrison said yesterday.
Thanks to quick-killing fentanyl, overdoses in Vermont continue to climb – either with greater availability of Narcan.
I am looking at you, climate warriors in the State House sporting Caribbean tans this week.
Only men could oppress women for thousands of years, then turn around, put on a dress, and complain they are the most marginalized group in society.
E coli bacteria could have been entering the river for weeks afterwards.
Some Vermont teens have their Greta game on.
Two children and a family dog survived the blaze.
House Ed bill clamps down on private schools.
It’s not V-for-Veto time yet, but Gov. Scott really, really doesn’t like a senate committee’s removal of Act 250 housing exemption for 25-unit housing developments.
The influx of illegal immigrants into Vermont has overwhelmed authorities’ ability to return or hold all of them. Now some are being left by the Border Patrol at a Northeast Kingdom bus station.
Discriminating against another person causes long-term outcomes for youth, Sen. Becca White said on a CNN interview. “They’re hearing rhetoric that tells them they are not valuable, that they’re dangerous.”
Sanders knows well how the Left dropped the worker. But, as he knows all too well, to spell out how and why would be political suicide.
The “Eisenhower Media Network” is the latest anti-military peace offensive mounted by Ben Cohen, founder of Ben & Jerry’s.
Multiple juveniles were engaged at a drinking party at a lawmaker’s home Friday night, state police say.
Bear incidents have been on the rise over the past several years. 2022 saw high numbers of bear homes break-ins, and two bear attacks.
“The charges against former state trooper Giancarlo DiGenova as outlined in court documents represent an extraordinary betrayal of the public’s trust, his oath as a sworn police officer, and his colleagues in law enforcement who serve the state honorably every day,” the head of the Vermont State Police said yesterday.
State Police today reported an arrest of a former state trooper for a lengthy, diverse list of thefts and other abuse-of-position offenses allegedly committed before his resignation last month.
This land is our land, this land was your land.
A House bill giving the State of Vermont taking oversight of rental housing away from municipalities has survived crossover. So has the latest gun control bill.
Caught in the men’s room with $500 of stolen merchandise.
When police saw two men carrying brand new woodchippers on a Colchester sidewalk at 4:45, their suspicions were aroused.
Crazy stuff happening with nuclear power plants, CDC buying your phone data, leftist law school students browbeating professors – read it all in CLG.
How’s this for hypocrisy…if you’re burning kerosene in your trailer to keep from freezing in February, you’re part of the problem. But if you need to create just that right ambiance to score with the very special someone you just met in the apres ski bar, fire up that Danforth Pewter oil lamp!
A Burlington sober house for women – since closed – was the scene of a fentanyl deal in January, 2021. A day later, two residents were dead of overdoses.
A Senate bill passed out of committee goes large on child care funding, and slower on paid family leave – at least slower than a $100 million-plus House bill.
An herb farmer with a Masters in education will fill the seat vacated by the resignation of Kate Donnally (D-Hyde Park) earlier this year.
Fuel dealers could provide a useful educational service to the senators who sponsored S.5, the Affordable Heating Act.
Key Senate committees are at odds over S100, the Legislature’s signature effort to relieve Vermont’s housing crisis.
The chief of Vermont’s Agency of Education will leave the job next month.
The State of Vermont failed to jail a repeat offender even when he carried crack cocaine into the state probation office. A federal judge jailed him this week for using his home as a drug dealer haven.
Half of the Senate is signing on to a bill to keep state libraries open and the book collection intact.
Once the roads are plowed and the lights come back on, we quickly forget about a crippling snowstorm. But they’re in Day Four of darkness in Windham County.
Two abortion/transgender services bills passed, one passed by the House and the other by the Senate, take parents out of the decision-making process.
A former teacher at Founders School in Essex has been charged with years of unlawful sexual contact with a girl who was 10 years old when it began.
The owner of a cleaning business significantly overstated lost earnings in order to receive Pandemic Paycheck Protection funding.
