Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
Cows are dying from eating broadband wire. The Artificial Intelligence Commissioner founder is trying to give it new life. And racial equity in landownership will get another look in House committees this week.
Computer nerd Tom Evslin has written a program to determine why your Zoom is freezing.
Why did House Democrats ask a tri-partisan Reapportionment Board its opinion if they were going to ignore it and take the party line?
Alfred Charest has an active extraditable warrant for his arrest from the state of New Hampshire and will face a charge in Vermont of being a fugitive from justice.
Charlotte town residents could see a 30% increase in taxes.
A young woman and UVM graduate raised on a Vermont dairy farm is running for lieutenant governor. And her name isn’t Molly Gray.
Little did Barre City voters know, when they voted almost 2-1 on a City Hall Park flag-flying ordinance, that their own legislators would quietly eliminate it months later.
The old-fashioned cold remedies have worked well for Jacqueline Brook of Putney.
No-one – except John McClaughry – is asking what we will do when the flood of federal money ends.
National leaders in the field of law, ethics, and medicine will meet this weekend for the Vermont Covid Summit.
A worker shortage means fuel truck drivers will need to work longer hours.
Congress Candidate Ram pushes ‘environmental justice’ bill at noon today.
Vermont officials are ready to spend big on creating new housing. Problem: a house that once cost $300K now costs about $400K, thanks to labor, supplies, land, etc.
Almost a third of Vermont’s ICU beds are empty today.
Omicron is too quick for contact tracing and PCR tests. So the Agency of Ed is moving to at-home antigen testing instead. But will there be enough tests?
Meg Hansen discusses with Bill Sayre how Covid-19 should be treated early.
Canadian provinces are likely to introduce mandatory vaccination policies in the coming months.
Secretary of State Condos says voter integrity measures are meant to reduce the vote. Rather, they are prudent and fair efforts to ensure free and fair elections.
Merrill Lynch will pay $4 million to settle claims brought on behalf of the receivership estate for Jay Peak, and $500,000 in lieu of penalty.
When Bernie Sanders says the rich don’t pay their fair share, you’ve got to wonder if he’s actually looked at the data.
If you think it’s cold in Burlington in January……just try running in Antarctica.
A Senate bill would end the practice of excluding participation at government meetings on the basis of race.
How can parents and other adults help at-risk youth deal with the added pressures of legal marijauna? Online event next Thursday.
The VT tax code is being changed to include non-taxable welfare payments to taxpayers with children.
Condos decries the Jan. 6 ‘insurrection’ and bemoans the fact that in many states, candidates doubting the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running for Secretary of State.
500,000 rapid tests will be delivered to Vermont homes.
A bill striking the religious exemption from school vaccinations was introduced last January and is still pending review by the House Judiciary Committee.
Concern about side effects, vaccine safety, and distrust of both the vaccines and the government are among the reasons why Vermonters won’t take the jab.
It will come as no surprise to people following the Democrat-controlled House Gov’t Ops dismantling of Legislative Apportionment Board recommendations that Vermont is at high risk for electoral district gerrymandering.
No Vermonters were arrested in the Jan. 6 incident at the Capitol building. Police seeking missing teen. State looking, again, for options for housing troubled youth. These headlines and others from Vermont’s media.
Using the distraction of Covid, Vermont Democrats are ignoring a popular plan to eliminate two-seat House districts in favor of the partisan-favoring status quo.
Proposal 5 would protect any abortion, for any reason, until the moment of birth. Doctors and nurses whose consciences forbid them from taking the life of the unborn would have no protection.
Krowinski believes VT needs to focus on climate change, racism, and Covid recovery.
A group of lawmakers who last year wanted Gov. Scott to impose a mask mandate in high transmission areas now have introduced a bill to accomplish the same goal.
Charlie Root, 43, was naked from the waist down Tuesday afternoon when he punched a Burlington police officer twice in the face.
A Rutland man has been using drugs to coerce women to perform commercial sex acts, and has ‘pistol-whipped’ multiple people, police say.
Sueing police and getting unlimited abortion into the state Constitution are part of Senate leader Becca Balint’s 2022 legislative agenda.
The proposed amendment to the Vermont Constitution would enshrine unlimited access to all abortions.
The Chinese government and Joe Biden’s US Agency for International Development are funders and supporters of new research on coronaviruses.
Vax ‘resisters’ seeking treatments should have to go to a field hospital, a Mountain Times letter writer says.
No Omicron tsunami has swamped Vermont’s 17 hospitals yet. A third of the state’s inpatient and ICU beds are unoccupied. Covid-19 accounts for 7% of inpatient beds, 14% of ICU beds.
Kassandra Medellin, 34, of Newport has been charged with selling heroin.
The decision to go remote for “just” two weeks puts the Vermont Legislature off to a pathetic start.
Tinsley the German Shepherd is the first bone-a-fido hero of the New Year.
There’s a new candidate for Vermont lieutenant governor – a centrist Democrat little known outside the State House but well-regarded inside it.
Just what Vermont’s critical police shortage needs: a new law that would make it much easier for crooks to sue the cops who apprehend them.
A majority of Vermont House members decided today to Zoom through the first two weeks of the Omicron Legislature.
The Chair of the House Judiciary Committee wants a misdemeanor ‘personal use’ defense for people caught with hard drugs.
The localvore ethic is being practiced in the forestry industry by a former environmental studies teacher.
An inmate at a state prison in Newport died of unknown causes Jan. 1. Police say the cause of death was apparently not suspicious, but autopsy and toxicology tests are pending.
While there is some evidence to suggest that masking in schools is an effective mitigation measure, it is not backed by the most rigorous research.
A cold snap could result in rolling blackouts if the Vermont Climate Council gets its way.
In the last hour of 2021, the suspect’s brother asked what a gun was doing in his bathroom. A fight broke out. Shots were fired.
92 towns and cities are saying no to a public places mask mandate. 20 have said yes. At least another 11 reportedly have taken no action at all.
We’ve already lost so much. Could loss of more gun rights be next?
The YMCA of Burlington now requires everyone who enters to wear a mask and show proof of vaccination.
The Legislature – including Rep. Vicki Strong, she hopes – will meet in person tomorrow, then go to remote meeting for two weeks.
Those vacant Vermont teaching positions are slowly but steadily getting filled.
Lyndon’s tired of drivers crashing into its covered bridges.
The founders of the influential legal-pot Marijuana Policy Project are directing the political and IT efforts of a national prostitution legalization group funding Vermont organizations.
Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64, and most of the claims for deaths being filed are not classified as Covid-19 deaths.
Mother and son in car found victim of gunshot wounds.
With Build Back Better in limbo, Democrats have a renewed focus to take control of state elections.
A Vermont legislator in the thick of the battle for vaccine and mask mandate freedom is also a pastor’s wife. And she has a word for Vermonters facing an uncertain 2022..
Gather this Sunday, January 2 on the State House lawn to celebrate the Nativity and pray for Vermont.
Despite the evidence, Health Commissioner Mark Levine calls the vaccine extraordinarily safe. And doesn’t respond directly to concerns about people losing jobs because they won’t get vaccinated.
As bad as 2020-21 were, the four years on the home front of WWII were worse, its veterans recall.
In November, for the third month in a row, Covid-19 killed more fully vaccinated Vermont residents than unvaccinated.
School officials admit a Brattleboro first-grader was vaccinated for Covid-19 against his parents’ will.
This news story went viral: more than three-quarters of Vermont Covid-19 fatalities in September were vaccine ‘breakthrough’ cases.
Changing crops is Vermont’s only hope.
Sanders writes a letter to Warren Bufffet demanding he stand with striking steelworkers.
While Texas led both in crude oil production and bankruptcies, New Mexico became second-largest oil producer in the U.S.
The Vermont Legislature will meet remotely for the first two weeks – at least.
An Essex Junction man and challenger for both governor and GOP Party chair wants the Vermont Republican Party to remove party affiliation from any elected officials who fail to follow the state party platform.
About 75 people gathered Thursday evening July 8 in Orleans to learn more about how Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in our schools. What they heard from middle school and high school students surprised many.
Newport man David Perry attacked and assaulted a Burlington police officer, seriously injuring the officer’s leg.
South Burlington man Ian Gardner used a knife to force a Simon’s employee to open the cash register, police say.
Political collectives of special interest are depriving humanity of its just priority.
It takes a village to attack a teenager.
Alex Katsnelson was fired by the Village of Essex Junction from his position as a lifeguard at the Maple Street pool due to his public opposition to Critical Race Theory as taught at Essex High School.
In this June 3 news story, a slew of resignations in the past year had left the remaining Brattleboro cops exhausted, the town’s police chief told selectboard members. As a result, patrol coverage dropped from three shifts to two.
Free antigen tests for students K-12 . Registration required. Testing NOT required for returning to school.
The annual Vermont Rally for Life will gather in Montpelier Saturday, January 22 – the 49th anniversary of Roe V. Wade.
A new reader thanks all the Chroniclers.
Gender fluidity is a religion because it affirms that individuals have an identity which transcends physical reality.
Covid treatments (as opposed to vaccines) are hard to come by in Vermont, Commissioner Mark Levine explains.
Debate about mask mandates was intense during a recent WDEV radio program.
Fear of the Omicron variant is what’s to blame for those added nights in an airport.
Paul Dame says encouraging moments from 2021 show the VT GOP has momentum.
A smaller deer herd and challenging hunting conditions resulted in a lower than usual harvest this year.
Health Commissioner Mark Levine said in a late May press conference he was unaware the CDC website shows eight Vermonters have died as a Covid-19 vaccinations.
Journalist Auditi Guha bashed communities “full of white people” as “boring” on Twitter on March 15, just two days before VT announced her hiring as a senior editor at VTDigger.
Tuesday, April 13, School choice supporter and BLM organization critic Liz Cady won a three-year seat, beating six-year incumbent and self-described racial and climate justice activist Liz Subin.
Every Tuesday morning Gov. Scott’s press office sends Covid-19 Data Modeling to the media before his noontime press conference. Now see it for yourself.
Vermont’s most famous current Olympic skier has tested positive for Covid-19.
A 49-year-old New York Times editor dies of heart attack a day after getting booster and writing, “Okay Omicron, hit me with your wet snot.”
Campaign for Vermont sees pension reform, water quality, and tourism, workforce and broadband development as crucial areas of improvement in 2022.
A 39-year-old man from Rhode Island is facing multiple charges following an incident that began in Sheffield on Sunday, police say. Authorities were alerted by several 911 calls regarding a wrong-way driver […]
Vermont Daily Chronicle publishes first Readable House Journal – a blow by blow account of legislation moving through the House of Representatives, one day at a time.
Today, as I prepare to write about crossover in the Vermont Legislature and a meteor that flashed across the Vermont sky Sunday night, my heart is with the family of a dear friend, Heather Sheppard, who blazed her own beautiful path until Sunday morning at 11:55 when she crossed over into eternity.
