Money from Washington is like blood to the body.

Freedom for some must not decree death for others.

John McClaughry parses the difference between a democracy and a republic.

In many cases these would-be armed patriots have never attended even one town or county party meeting.

Wokeness in the military is a disincentive for many young Americans in terms of enlistment and siphons off resources needed to defend the country, a former 4-star general says.

“Growing up I was taught to treat the police, the FBI, pharmaceutical companies, banks, and big institutions of almost any kind, with skepticism. It was the same for many liberals. But today – because of Trump and his MAGA followers – we rise to their defense?,” wonders a liberal Vermont blogger.

Becca Balint explicitly claimed never to seek PAC/lobbyist money, but she did meet with the crypto-funded PAC “Protecting Our Future” and others.

People feel like their work lacks meaning, and lacks purpose, says a twenty-something candidate for the Vermont Senate.

The City Mice don’t understand what the Country Mice have known all along: sometimes it takes a community to stop a nuisance dog.

To “use this race to tell Vermonters our election will cure climate change or provide health care for all, etc.” would be disrespectful to the voters, Joe Benning advises Lt. Gov. adversary David Zuckerman.

If the SOS program were enacted, a parent-controlled savings account would be established for each participating child.

The Climate Council, charged by the Legislature to find funding sources for reducing carbon emissions, is now discussing out loud and on the record an “economy-wide” carbon tax. Media interest? Anyone?

The State of Vermont failed to adequately publicize a public hearing on a controversial landfill runoff plan, and then didn’t answer many important questions, a critic of the plan says.

Becca, is my right to personal reproductive liberty supported in my rejection of the Covid injections?

Vermont’s Rip Van Winkle fell asleep after 9/11 and just woke up, to discover the waking nightmare gun violence, drug overdoses, a housing crisis, a pandemic and (apparently) rampant racism in the once-bucolic Green Mountain State.