Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
The good news is that Vermont schools have the lowest ratio of students to counselors in the nation. The bad news is that mental health services are lacking amid a post-pandemic crisis.
“O-O-Oklahoma, where Ukrainian missile forces train….”
Vermont Technical College won’t allow the father of a girl who complained about undressing in front of a trans biological male to show a Matt Walsh film, calling it ‘discriminatory.’
Parking Wars! While state prosecutors pursue murder cases she won’t touch, Chittenden County AG Sarah George tries to get their cars towed from the courthouse parking lot.
A white CVU girls basketball team member used the ‘N word’ in a social media video she shot with a BIPOC family member.
A Rutland man was drunk and driving 120 MPH shortly after midnight this morning when he failed to “navigate a corner on the highway,” police say.
Rep. Becca Balint joined almost every other Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives voting against a resolution condemning violence against churches and pro-life pregnancy clinics.
New leadership for the State of Vermont IT agency. And a new civics curriculum to be promulgated by new Secretary of State Sarah Copeland-Hanzas.
A truck driver who stopped to check on the welfare of a crash victim was forced at gunpoint to drive him to the Berlin Mall.
Property taxes will rise despite a $65 million surplus.
Democrats’ mandatory paid family leave will require $100 million in new employer/employee taxes.
Plenty of fun and information and prizes at the Yankee Sportsman’s Classic January 20-22.
Should the law require solar panel installers to have a recycling plan? And do the Capitol grounds need a 24/7 restroom? These questions and others raised in proposed House legislation.
Two twins from Bristol have organized a Holocaust Remembrance Day. Never forget!
In response to a public records request, the Vermont Agency of Education admitted it has no written evidence for mask safety.
The shortform name for this year’s version of last year’s Clean Heat Standard bill is now the brazenly misleading “Affordable Heat Act.”
A new umbrella advocacy group wants equity protected as the Legislature debates court-mandated changes in the private school voucher system.
Big bills come out of small committee rooms.
Public safety, climate, housing, education and workforce, and healthcare are the subject of in-depth legislation briefings by the Scott administration.
Free ice fishing all day on January 28.
Should the state buy breakfast and lunch for all students, or just those in need?
One of the silver linings of the pandemic: the Vermont State House is now more accessible to people who can’t or won’t visit in person.
A famous alumnus delivers a huge grant to his Vermont alma mater – but taxpayers are paying for it.
One crack dealer tried to rob another crack dealer. As a result, one of them died, and the other faces a possible life sentence.
The session is just a week old, and already – as he promised last year – Sen. Phil Baruth has put his name on two gun control bills.
An East Montpelier man is being held without bail for alleged luring and sex assault of a child and sexual exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
Ezra Miller, the disturbed actor who plays the Flash in the movies, will change his plea to stay out of jail arising from a burglary in Stamford, VT.
Vermont prisons are understaffed, have low morale, poor mental health, and an overall lack of activities for inmates.
This is beyond a racket.
A 24-year-old Bennington man with a history of speeding got a big ticket Wednesday.
Rather than allow Vermont’s fourteen approved independent religious schools to accept tuitioning students, many legislators would rather scrap tuitioning to independent schools altogether.
Recently released video footage shows a young suspect being restrained by a Shelburne police officer after spitting on him. Police violence, or acceptable use of force? You decide.
Your blue-flamed gas stove is actually the source of danger emissions and ‘particulate matter,’ the federal government warns. Go electric!
The presence of the super-majority is a risk to democracy by its very existence, says the new representative from Barre Town/Williamstown.
A Vermont public school that vaccinated a child without parental permission is legally immune from lawsuits because of the pandemic ‘federal emergency,’ a judge has ruled.
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger today presented a lengthy list of funding requests for the Legislature.
A teacher sustained superficial injuries Tuesday afternoon after being shot in the back, Barre police say.
Many Republicans care about threats to election integrity, says a county chair calling for a statewide election integrity committee.
The explanation: “YouTube doesn’t allow claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization.”
The poorest town in Vermont has a higher high school graduation rate than its wealthier neighbors.
It costs Moderna about $2 to manufacture a dose of its Covid-19 injection. Now it wants to quadruple its asking price to $135.
Rep. Becca Balint has lost no time targeting the House rules changes, which she fears will further the MAGA agenda in the U.S. House.
Comprehensive listing of information about 2023-24 Vermont Representatives and Senators.
Did Tony Fauci foresee almost every detail of the pandemic and pandemic response? Or did he actually help make it happen? Just asking….
Queen City councilors say requiring less parking for new homes will create more living space and cut carbon emissions.
A Burlington man with more than 100 police engagements in recent years was arrested on outstanding warrants after police found him onsite of a suspicious death on Riverside Avenue.
After he was detained for threatening an ex-partner, a Craftsbury man set fire to the interior of the state police cruiser while handcuffed inside.
A man known to police and possessing firearms assaulted a woman and then barricaded himself in their home.
One of Vermont’s pre-eminent tech gurus thinks 2023 could be the start of something very, very good for the world.
The logic is simple: criminals want easy victims, they do not want armed adversaries.
The House holdouts won out against the tyranny of the one and tyranny of the many.
A heavy-hitting Vermont lawyer is taking a swing at some of the biggest names in the U.S. government.
Approval of new procedure would make cavity treatment affordable under Medicaid.
Humanity seems to be playing chicken with stupidity at a record pace.
The Vermont Senate, under the President Pro Tem leadership of gun-control advocate Phil Baruth (D-Chittenden), is off to a fast start with gun control.
The homeless don’t have a home because we, as a society, have not built enough affordable housing, blogger Kevin Ellis warns his fellow Democrats.
Their corporate creators say new GMOs will save the world by sequestering carbon. Don’t be fooled, farmer John Klar says.
Arrested three times, released “on conditions” three times. In one week.
PUT DOWN THE PHONE! Highway deaths are up in Vermont, and distracted driving is the main reason.
Vermont’s premier indoor event for outdoorsmen and outdoorswomen will be held at the Essex fairgrounds the weekend after next.
With about a third of the Vermont House of Representatives comprised of new members, a list of all members and their contact information might be helpful.
The universal mailed ballot shifts responsibility away from the voter, and also sends ballots to the wrong address, a sponsor of H23 says.
Another relic of the pandemic – free bus fares – is on its way out, WCAX reports.
Two former candidates from opposite ends of the Vermont political spectrum address Jan. 6 and climate change.
The people of the United States elected 432 people to represent them in Congress, yet even before they start their first day at work they are completely controlled, unable to vote their conscience.
The tail continues to wag the dog, and the ten percent continues to deny Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California the votes he needs to get on with the people’s business.
14 months in federal for cocaine distribution.
441 apprehensions, 135 gotaways in December alone.
A jailhouse assault sent a homeless man to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
‘Officer Clemmons’ added flair and a climactic final note of the National Anthem to the inauguration of Gov. Phil Scott yesterday.
Krowinski “adamantly denied it was because of my Article 22 advocacy, but her assorted rationales, as I told her, ‘didn’t meet the straight face test,” Donahue said.
I am especially proud of how my team here at the Secretary of State’s Office responded during the global pandemic,” departing Secretary of State Jim Condos said.
Second interview in a VDC interview series: a Bosnian immigrant and nurse who teaches soccer and life skills to Winooski children, including many children of immigrants.
The CDC has analyzed VAERS data on two prominent Covid-19 vaccines and flagged hundreds of ‘safety signals.’
The school’s planned BIPOC Affinity Group is not open to all students and therefore violates the 1964 federal civil rights act, the lawsuit claims.
A Lowell man with a 16-inch knife tried to force his way into a drug/alcohol rehab recover center.
There’s no proof the Rolex a state trooper brought to a jeweler and the Rolex stolen from a state police barracks evidence locker are the same watch, says the lawyer for the suspended trooper.
The Burlington Police Department has just 22 active patrol officers to provide 24/7/365 coverage in the state’s largest city, and crime is rising.
Tundra the Siberian husky was stolen from his Tunbridge home on Tuesday.
Saying hello via video to four new lawmakers, including three who have served previously.
Toss out misdemeanor cases, legalize switchblades, and designate golf courses as protected areas – these ideas and others are among newly introduced legislation in the Vermont House.
Last year, how well did the state’s well-funded programs work? Auditor Terry Hoffer offers a 2022 year in review.
A Republican lawmaker had her say before the Vermont House of Representatives – over her objection – re-elected Jill Krowinski as Speaker.
It’s a serious national security problem when a majority of the people dislike this country.
The bows and rifles of Vermont hunters yielded a bountiful harvest of organic meat for Vermonters facing rising grocery prices.
Warnings for warm winter ice-fishing.
Company-operated worker housing was a ‘thing’ back in the heyday of Burlington/Winooski area mills. Now it’s returning as large employers like UVMMC are struggling to find workers due to the housing shortage.
A church built in the 1890’s was already seeing declining membership. Then the pandemic hit.
A man with a Massachusetts drug crime record was treated for gunshot wounds at a Newport hospital Tuesday morning. He’s not saying how he acquired them.
One police officer tased 17-year-old Mischa Fay as he threatened others with a knife, but another shot him in the chest.
A Vermont education newsletter says the tension is growing between elected school board members and their senior administrative appointees.
With the opening of the 2023-24 Legislature still a day away, new bills already are rolling in.
Lawsuits are challenging laws that kick parents out of the village regarding their child’s reproductive experiences and choices.
Many citizens depend on the government and nonprofit organizations for food, housing, medical/dental, and addiction recovery services.
With a veto-proof and disciplined 104-38 majority in the House, the Democrats are eager to pass a renamed “Clean Heat Standard” whether Gov. Phil Scott likes it or not.
We have come a long way from the socks (or was it gloves?) that President Obama sent after Russia’s invasion of Crimea.
$730,000 homes aren’t the solution to Vermont’s affordable housing crisis. But what is?
Two people, including a Hartford CT man, were arrested for felony possession of cocaine in Montpelier.
Sugar houses across Vermont were making the first maple syrup of 2023 during the cool nights and warm days of the new year.
The dictionary defines crowdsourcing as “the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.”
