Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
The U.S. government has ordered millions of doses of a vaccine that protects against monkeypox. The news follows the first confirmed case in the states — a man in Massachusetts — following an outbreak in the U.K.
The Chester town librarian has resigned over pushback from the library board about her plans to hold a Drag Queen Story Hour on June 4, the Chester Telegraph reports.
453 Pine Street, Burlington is next to the Pine Street Canal Superfund Site, the location of a coal gasification plant that closed in 1966.
Avian flu is spreading among Vermont’s wild fowl population, Fish & Wildlife reports.
Moose the animal-attacking dog won’t be euthanized but instead is in the supervised custody of a dog-lover in Highgate.
Covid, too many Zoom hearings, the desire to retire, looming fiscal challenges, and just feeling like ‘it’s time’ are among the reasons why lawmakers are leaving in record numbers this year.
California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, via executive order is dictating what Vermont vehicle consumers can and cannot buy, if we go along, but we don’t have to.
The bill claims that leaving forests unmanaged would benefit wildlife habitat and slow climate change – but forest science shows the opposite is true.
A federally-funded grant will move Vermont closer to universal afterschool and summer programs.
The seventh theft of a catalytic converter was unlucky for an alleged Newport thief.
On May 11 the short life of the Clean Heat Standard (CHS), promising “clean heat for a cooler planet,” came to sudden but probably not final end.
“Vermonters expect Democrats and Republicans to work together to make life better for everyone,” former Governor Jim Douglas said yesterday, explaining his decision to support Christina Nolan for U.S. Senator.
Fake news reporter Johnny Bananas says the story of the demise of formulating babies is greatly exaggerated.
Boaters, it is up to you to protect Vermont waters from invasions of exotic plants and animals.
There is no simple “the science” according to which a leader can govern.
A young child was hospitalized following an I-89 rollover accident that ejected her and three other people from a pickup truck.
The oldest daughter of Georg and Maria Von Trapp was a missionary in the Pacific and resident of a kibbutz in Israel.
This is a partisan government office created to pass judgment on any speech that might diminish support for the Biden Administration’s program and performance.
In a sure sign of the Apocalypse, Vermont is running out of lawyers.
A Vermont conservative activist upset with Ben & Jerry’s call to defund the police is urging others to ‘never buy another tub.’
Tyranny is tyranny, and the only solution to stopping or escaping it is universal school choice.
42 Vermont legislators, including 9 House committee chairs, won’t be seeking re-election to their current seats.
As of May 16, there have been 24 crash fatalities on Vermont’s roads in 2022 – a 33% increase over last year.
The bobcat that entered a downtown Windsor home last Friday the 13th and bit the homeowner has tested positive for rabies.
Eating disorder study, and a teen walks tightrope in heels – these headlines and others from VT media today.
Randolph students disciplined for profanity-by-association chant, “Let’s Go Brandon.”
Buffalo shooter describes himself as leftist.
In the Northeast Kingdom we have seen hasty green energy policy push subsidies for industrial wind turbines, and it has given us much pause before enacting further policies that are unclear and undefined.
Governor Phil Scott promulgates a perception of Prop 5/Article 22 that is not based in reality.
Lindsay scares the left – a confessed liberal Democrat, college educator, and atheist warning Americans against the new secular religion.
Phil Scott is seeking his fourth checkered flag in this November’s race for Vermont governor.
In Vermont, we have many young people, perhaps upwards of 20,000 or more, who are disengaged from a workforce that reportedly has over 26,000 open positions.
May 26 is the petition filing deadline for petitions to run in the August 9 primary for the Legislature and statewide and county offices.
An even dozen state senators have announced their retirement. What’s going on?
Spending and Senate/House retirements – both unprecedented – are the hallmarks of the 2022 session of the Vermont Legislature.
The following Vermont State Police reports were edited and published by the Newport Dispatch. A man died after trying to fight a wildland fire in Rochester Thursday May 12. Authorities were notified […]
Jailed last May for allegedly selling heroin out of a Barre apartment, a Springfield MA man was selling fentanyl out of a home in nearby Washington before a SWAT team raid last Friday.
“It was kind of a pain the way they do it. They just had our case worker give us an absentee ballot and we had to fill it out and mail it,” an inmate said.
The MAGA crowd believes inflation is a tax increase that deflates the value of their income, while Biden’s fiscal and energy policies have fueled the inflation spiral.
Last month, Welch put out a statement on his official congressional website stating “It’s long past time we created a dedicated government agency to regulate and address the wide range of issues raised by social media platforms…That’s why I am working on legislation to create a federal agency to do just that.”
Elected officials issue press releases about mass shootings in other states as Vermont’s drug violence grows and our police leave.
Thoughts on powerhouse Patricia Posner commentary on the erasure of the feminine lexicon.
The final bill to pass the 2022 session of the Vermont Legislature was the $8.3 billion budget, which provides the funding for general government spending and the major policy bills this session.
Whether you’re fighting Russians in an Eastern European country devoid of working power lines or just RV’ing in low-cell country, Tom Evslin says his favorite LEO satellite system might be just the thing.
A child tax credit and income tax relief for retirees were approved on the last day of the Legislature.
St. Albans plans to kill a dog that has attacked people and killed other animals – that headline and others from VT media.
Among the interesting one-time expenses in the state budget passed yesterday is $115,000 for a State Food Security Action Plan for “times of disruption to the national food distribution chain caused by emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic.”
State police are looking for a Jeffersonville road rage & shooting suspect; Clark pleads innocent to attempted Murder 2; SWAT teams hit drug dens in Town of Washington.
Of the 169 use-of-force incidents recorded by VSP in 2021, 10 involved black people – seven of whom were men.
If a serving state senator doesn’t know what Article 22/Proposal 5 is – not even its name and general intent let alone its potential impact – how well informed do you think the average voter is?
Hey humans – leave those cute, sleeping fawns alone.
Humility will be required to admit that the Global Warming Solutions Act is a failure; courage will be required to repeal it.
This weekend is a busy one for conservative-minded inquirers and activists: an election integrity event in Rutland, the first GOP debate for statewide candidates, and a symposium featuring Marxism opponent Dr. James Lindsay.
The Rutland School Board will delay action on the controversial school mascot issue until August.
The son of the world’s most famous chronicler of the Holocaust speaks out against the Burlington Boycott/Divest/Sanction movement.
The Vermont National Guard is partnering with another European ally – the Republic of Austria.
Sen. Chris Pearson (D/P – Chittenden) will not seek re-election, he announced on Twitter yesterday. “Today I have started to let people know I will not be seeking re-election. It’s been an […]
How did YOUR representative vote on giving the State of Vermont authority over naming local school mascots?
The updating of Act 250 will need to wait another year, if this year’s effort remains stalled.
The House voted today to urge the prevention of nuclear weapons on Vermont soil and taking the decision for nuclear war out of the hands of the president alone.
Police say Parker Clark was doing ‘donuts’ with his truck, struck a man standing nearby, and then tried to abandon him in a creek in a remote ravine.
Sen. Bernie Sanders wants a national law supporting legal abortion and he’s willing to waive the filbuster to get it.
H746, the Burlington charter change legalizing prostitution, has passed the Senate and now goes to Gov. Phil Scott.
Two controversial hunting and trapping bills passed the House yesterday, as did a police data collection bill that critics say will discourage police officers from staying in Vermont.
A Vernon man is charged with killing his mother in 2016 – as well as his grandfather in 2013 – to obtain money from their estates.
A father shot his son in a turkey hunting accident in Hartford Sunday.
Vermont’s court system will remain in a Covid ’emergency’ through August.
A Springfield Democrat won’t change his vote supporting the Clean Heat Standard veto, despite pressure from House leadership.
Since late March, vaxxed Vermonters have been hospitalized for Covid-19 at a greater rate than non-vaxxed, investigate reporter Alex Berensen reports.
A county prosecutor criticized her over-lenient treatment of suspects of violent crime will face a primary challenge from a trial lawyer who promises more protection for the public.
When a former Vermont Air National Guard pilot gave then Lt. Gov. Howard Dean a ride in an F-4, the aftermath wasn’t pretty.
Dutch politicians wonder why the president of Ukraine is (like Putin) uber-wealthy.
More than 3000 criminal cases have been pending for more than two years.
The school mascot bill is all about cowering to ‘woke’ parents.
Alexander Twilight, Japanese hand grenade, and low-flying helicopters in St. Johnsbury.
A rare sighting of the Northern Lights from nearby Mt. Washington.
Burlington’s ‘just cause’ eviction charter change won’t become law, and the Clean Heat Standard veto has yet to be challenged in its second day on the House calendar.
Howard Dean doesn’t trust Elon Musk to handle Twitter fairly because he’s full of craziness and hate.
In the garden today, I was thinking about the many amazing Vermonters who are committed to the land and to each other.
The Chittenden County Republican Committee is sponsoring a Republican Congressional Candidate Forum at the Milton Grange on Saturday, May 14 at 8:30 am.
A Springfield man attacked with a shovel in February was shot in the leg on Monday; it was the third shooting on Valley Street since April 5.
The Vermont House listened to the science and not the dependency-pushing Big Marijuana industry when it kept THC caps on legal retail marijuana.
Drop boxes, universal mailed ballots, and ballot harvesting – all crucial to the electoral fraud in six battleground states in the 2020 presidential election – are permitted in the pandemic election law passed by the Legislature in 2020.
Does Vermont need another bridge across Lake Champlain?
The Legislature is scheduled to vote today on expanding the bottle bill and allowing hunting rifle noise suppressors.
For different reasons, pro-business groups and some environmentalists want to sustain Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of the Clean Heat Standards.
H.715 misrepresents the word “Clean”. 350vt’s analysis of H.715 shows that more than 50% of it will be met by biofuels. The biofuel marketplace is exploding globally, trading the damaging effects of fossil fuels for the damaging effects of biofuel production.
An early Saturday morning car chase resulted in the shooting death of a Swanton man.
The Vermont Legislature recently passed a long-sought ethics law.
In separate crashes, a pair of Harley Davidson riders died on Franklin County VT roads this weekend.
Not often a Northeast Kingdom Republican defends a Chittenden County Democrat.
Don Keelan explains why housing is scarce and new housing almost non-existent in Vermont.
The CDC planned to track lockdown compliance with cellphone data.
Hit & Run Visual Commentary by RW Geer
Gov. Phil Scott this afternoon vetoed the Clean Heat Standard, citing inadequate legislative ‘checkback’ on the PUC implementation plan.
Local school districts can’t be trusted as the final authority on naming their own team mascots, the Vermont Legislature decided today.
The not-for-profit responsible for feeding Vermont’s neediest says food costs and demand are growing even as federal funding is in decline.
Several pro-abortion candidates for office have issued false and misleading statements about abortion and the effect Proposal 5/Article 22 would have in Vermont, according to a Vermont Right to Life statement.
I urged vaccine requirements for air travel and some professions like medicine thinking that vaccinated people were largely not spreaders. I was wrong. The “science” was wrong.
The City of Montpelier in June is tentatively scheduled to revisit a conversation begun last year about legalizing prostitution.
