Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
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.
A bus full of basketball players escaped serious injury last night when icy roads caused a collision.
President Biden’s porous border policies are to blame for the alarming spike in illegal crossings of the northern border, the congresswoman for Plattsburgh and much of northern New York says.
“When we left the motel about 5 to 10 mins later, she gave birth to her baby on the sidewalk, cut the umbilical cord, and continued to walk in hopes of making money. She knew not making money meant her receiving bruises.”
The FDA will now allow retail pharmacies to dispense mifepristone to people who obtain a prescription for it. As a result, Walgreens and CVS are seeking FDA approval to dispense the drug.
Recent laws have improved telehealth, but improvements could be made, a recent study says.
A Senate bill would deliver what the holy grail to Vermont abortion providers: free abortions to all, required to be paid for by Medicaid and private health insurance.
Not until the close of the 20th century did a black woman sit in the Vermont Legislature.
An appeal to recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions has led to striking a controversial proposed Senate ban on under-21 possession of semi-auto firearms.
Supporters of a bill banning 16-17 year old marriage with parental consent raised the spectre of child abuse, excess child-bearing, coercion, and human trafficking.
Mr. Goldberg’s complex contraptions were easily understood by everyone who looked at them and could in fact be recreated proving that they actually worked.
the world’s mining can not and will not be able to supply us with the required quantities of the two dozen or so minerals needed to make the machines of our world’s “Energy Transition”.
It’s time to stick it to that redneck Republican who has been hauling the #2 fuel-oil hose up your posted, habitat-fragmenting driveway to ensure all 4,000 square feet (and three-car garage) stays at 70 degrees when the heat pump succumbs to the laws of physics.
An 18-year-old stabbed his victim several times at the Montpelier bus station last night, police say.
Administering mandated insurance would double size of Treasurer’s office The House Committee on General and Housing passed out H.66 Thursday February 16, which would create the most generous paid family and medical […]
The proponents of the bill themselves can’t or won’t tell Vermonters what it will cost and how much fuel will increase to pay for it, as no financial analysis has been requested or developed by the committee.
On behalf of my fellow Earthlings, we would like to offer the people at the World Government Summit as a lovely parting gift for taking so much of your time to come all this way. Seriously, feel free to take as many as you’d like.
A dog rescued from starvation and a heavy chain found his way to a loving couple in Addison County. They call him Buckshot Willy – and in this video, he tells you why.
For many seniors, their home is their last large asset. They can’t make expensive renovations on fixed incomes.
State police were busy this weekend enforcing traffic laws and investigating another highway fatality.
Often, Vermont’s elected leaders respond to conflict of interest concerns with four words: “we’re a small state.”
When two U.S. Army vets took their son/grandson out into the woods to prepare him for his upcoming military training, a nosy neighbor could have reported them as a ‘paramilitary training camp.’
The fascinating, unlikely story is told in “The Man of the House,” a 2022 memoir by Robert Wallace Bennett, a former Vermont journalist, public relations and marketing executive, Brooklyn Dodgers hero Johnny Podres biographer, internationally-recognized expert rabbit breeder – and diligent, committed husband and father.
The new boss at DCF is an old hand in state government. More moose calves are dying in the Northeast Kingdom, thanks to a tick infestation, and the proposed solution is a moose hunt. And mail delivery in Hinesburg (and elsewhere) is sllloowww.
Is it a coincidence that the CDC drastically reduced the official toxicity of vinyl chloride two weeks before the Ohio train wreck? And was there really a push for locals to sign up for biometric tracking in the event of a major disaster?
On some days, Vermont public schools don’t have enough school bus drivers and cafeteria workers to transport and feed students.
Vermonters already expect vaccine outcome data are being compiled and monitored – but incredibly they are not.
Xusana Davis: “It’s now my third or fourth session in the state and one of the things I often hear from legislators is, oh yeah, sorry, the equity piece isn’t quite there but we’ll fix it in January. We’ll fix it later. And what that says to me is there is something that motivates us to do this that is more important to us than justice. So the justice will have to wait.”
No technology can replace the quiet solitude and person-to-person educational learning experiences found in a library environment.
The unprecedented move of making the Northern Vermont University library almost all-digital has raised conflict of interest questions about Vermont State College Board Vice-Chair Megan Cluver, who is also a senior manager of Deloitte, a digital technology firm.
If Rice and others forfeit tuition vouchers for including religion in their curriculum, why can the public schools teach woke?
The tide has turned to what is now a social welfare state, implementing similar programs that have been a failure in California, and closer to home, in Burlington.
The 40 Days for Life prayer vigil begins this coming week in Barre, Rutland and Burlington.
Despite testimony about how the ‘Affordable Heating Act’ would actually raise energy prices for poor and middle income Vermonters, a Senate committee unanimously approved S.5.
A bill that could add up to $4 to the cost of heating fuel passed the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee this morning.
Lawmakers’ ears appear to be stuffed with cotton.
Longtime news reporter Mike Donoghue broke one of the biggest crime stories in Vermont history on Thursday when he reported that the rape, beating and strangulation death of a Milton teacher more than 51 years ago in Burlington has been solved.
