Political cartoonist Dan Jeffries imagines the selectboard rebranding the town of Brandon, Vermont. What could go wrong?
Jeffries: “Let’s Go Brandon!”
Guy Page
Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
“A very special day” in Virginia, former VT state senator says
The impossible is really not impossible, former Vermont state senator Mark Shepard writes from his home in Virginia.
Vermont news goes national
In October, the Chronicle had more than twice as many views and three times as many visitors as any previous month.
Pfizer vax registration available for children ages 5-11
Vermont health officials look to “get as many doses as possible into students’ arms before the holiday break” as the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is now available for children, ages 5-11.
Youngkin defeats McAuliffe in race for Virginia governor
Election Day National Headlines from CLG – Youngkin wins and so does the Virginia lite-guv candidate.
CORRECTION: State GOP meeting in S. Burlington
The annual meeting of the Vermont Republican Party state committee will be held at the Delta Hotel in South Burlington 10 AM this Saturday, November 6.
Water Cooler: shooting in UMall parking lot / spectators banned from Enosburg-Winooski championship game
UPDATE: Gov. Phil Scott today said the media WILL be allowed to cover the Enosburg-Winooski soccer game, following VT Principal Association reports that both spectators and media would be banned. Apparently some First Amendment enthusiasts among the state press corps objected, and the VPA amended its decision today.
VT vaxxed hospitalizations up, non-vaxxed down, but Fauci says we’re on right track
Just stay the course, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine recently.
Bennington elementary school shelters in place after racial slur
Bennington elementary school administrators last week ordered a Shelter in Place in response to a student uttering a racial slur.
Dame, Sexton to run for GOP State Chair
Paul Dame and Jim Sexton will compete for election as Chair of the Vermont Republican Party at the annual state meeting this Saturday in Montpelier.
UVM freezes tuition for fourth straight year
UVM Board approves President Suresh Garimella’s plan to extend the University’s tuition freeze for the fourth consecutive year.
Hunters asked to collect deer teeth
Hunters are being asked to provide state biologists with an incisor tooth from the deer they harvest.
Rally to continue motel program
A rally at the Statehouse to continue funding for homeless people in motels and hotels had support from legislators and about 50 people.
McClaughry: Holding legislators accountable
McClaughry expounds upon the virtues of single-member districts.
Lefebvre: running for GOP vice-chair
Rep. Samantha Lefebvre will seek election as vice-chair of the Vermont Republican Party this Saturday in Montpelier.
Federer to speak on voter integrity at Celebrate America II dinner Friday
Hot topics like voter integrity, education and religious liberty, and health care freedom will be on the table when national speaker/author William Federer comes to Vermont Nov. 5-8 for the Celebrate America II.
Water Cooler: Racial Justice Alliance wants more mandates / VT psychics drew attention of Arthur Conan Doyle / Vax issue getting testy at Goddard College
The creator of Sherlock Holmes was a ‘spiritualist’ who became enthralled with some Vermont psychics.
VT gun groups challenge NYC firearm law
Two VT pro-2A groups say the New York City firearms ordinance doesn’t recognize the right to self-defense by carrying firearms. Unconstitutional, much?
Scott only GOP guv to not sign immigration crisis letter
After eight months of unprecedented illegal immigration, every Republican governor but one signed a letter asking President Biden for a meeting to discuss resolving the crisis.
Holding vigil in the rain: why do they do it?
It’s all about being an ambassador.
Prostitution decrim perpetuates victimization, opponents say
Sex trafficking is inherently dangerous and cannot be made safe by either regulated legalization or decriminalization – as the evidence shows where both have been tried, Maggie Kerrin of NEASE told Burlington City Councilors October 25.
Brock: It Isn’t About You
Senate Minority Leader Randy Brock implies the unvaccinated are prolonging and worsening COVID’s impact on the US.
Murder bust in Greensboro shooting
A Greensboro man intervened on behalf of a Hardwick store clerk. Now he’s charged with second-degree murder.
Brattleboro fentanyl dealer gets time served
A Brattleboro fentanyl dealer and host of a drug making operation was given credit for time served in exchange for a guilty plea.
Jeffries: Angel on His Shoulder
Political cartoonist remembers former Vermont Gov. Richard Snelling – and what he might have said about mask mandates.
The Season of the Political Witch: Manipulation, Intimidation, Domination
We are in a season of manipulation, intimidation, and domination.
Water Cooler: schools at breaking point / inquiry into long medical wait times / high school locked down after weapon sighting
Please DON’T pass any new laws, school officials told the Legislature. They’ve got plenty to do deal with right now.
43% of October Covid fatalities fully vaccinated
Nine of the 21 October Covid-19 Vermont fatalities this month have been fully vaccinated.
Proposed raced-based hiring quota for Burlington cops criticized
Members of the Burlington Police Commission want a race-based hiring quota. A former city employee says that’s unconstitutional.
Controversial “Gender Queer” book in circulation at Essex High School library
A controversial graphic novel featuring explicit drawings of gay sex is in circulation at Essex High School.
Dark origins of Grimm’s fairy tales
The little-known, diabolically dark, gruesome, and gory ingredients of Grimm’s fairy tales.
Bats on the move, with a reputation to improve
Bats get moving in the fall. It’s a good time to learn about Vermont’s nine native bat species.
VT Fish & Wildlife teaches ‘scats and tracks’ for young students
Vermont Fish and Wildlife is offering a virtual program for elementary school classes designed to get kids outside with their teacher and learn about Vermont’s local wildlife.
My search for Brandon
In a fit of flabbergasty, I yelled out blasphemously, ‘Let’s Go Brandon!’
Water Cooler: Can Vermonters be trusted to use ‘personal responsibility’? / Possible cyberattack at Berlin school / Rte. 7 closure for 4 weeks
WCAX asks if Vermonters can be trusted to use personal responsibility, as Gov. Phil Scott requested.
Waterbury school name changed because namesake owned slaves
The Thatcher of Thatcher Brook Primary School in Waterbury was discovered to be a slave owner. Time for a name change.
Burlington rock-tosser jailed
A man who smashed a window at a Burlington homeless shelter, injured a shelter worker, slashed tires, broke a social service door, and damaged the auditorium in City Hall was jailed pending arraignment.
Billado won’t seek re-election as GOP chair
The Vermont Republican Party will have a new chair soon. Deb Billado has declined to run for re-election.
Flemming: the Mack Truck headed straight for you
High taxes, unapproved by Legislature. Bans on heating and cooking with gas and oil. Fewer cows! Electric vehicles ONLY. Gosh, what’s not to like about Vermont’s proposed “Global Warming Solutions”?
Condos: Beware mal-information! Trust only primary, official sources
“Mal-information” can lead to violence, Secretary of State Jim Condos says. So ‘look only to primary, official sources for your information.’
Dr. Reider: pushing Covid shot on children is medical abuse
Is it ethical to use children as a means to protect the old and frail, particularly when that strategy has never been proven? Haven’t they sacrificed and suffered enough?
Mar-Anon: helping families of marijuana abusers since 1993
Mar-Anon will help Vermont families struggling with a loved one’s marijuana abuse.
Fatal Shooting in Addison
An Addison man is dead of an accident/self-inflicted gunshot wound.
State trooper injured in crash
A state trooper suffered minor injuries when a car pulled out in front of his vehicle on Rte. 2 in Danville, abruptly ending his pursuit of another car.
Evslin: Climate crowd should count trees, too
Vermont’s REAL carbon numbers show we’re already well on our way to meeting stringent goals.
Video: Putney grad helps Soros bankroll U.S. media
George Soros is getting financial help from a Putney School grad and fellow billionaire to bankroll the U.S. media.
Teen killed in West Haven crash
A West Haven teen was killed after his Subaru struck a vehicle trying to pass a tractor-trailer on Rte. 22A.
Water Cooler: latest in padlocked women case / Burlington homeless to move along / Cat V. promoted to WCAX anchor / ER voyeur gets plea deal / Pedestrian killed on Rte. 15
A New York man faces a firearms charge in the Rutland drug and human trafficking case in which women were padlocked into residences.
Wife-killer cut up body and stuffed parts into bags, court records say
Joseph Ferlazzo went out for breakfast the morning after shooting his 22-year-old wife twice in the head during an anniversary celebration trip in their camper Saturday October 16 in Bolton, according to court records.
Only 30 Vermonters re-infected with symptomatic Covid
Just 30 Vermonters who had Covid symptoms have recovered and then got them again. Natural immunity?
Biden admin to ‘educate’ cops who refuse vax
CLG collects interesting headlines and links from national and world media. Learn about the two-tiered society in New Zealand – the “haves” with vaccine passports and the “have nots” without.
Keelan: Renewable power anything but ‘local’
The climate mongers want Vermont to stop sending energy money out of state. Problem: almost all of the wood pellet, hydro and nuclear power we’ll need to replace fossil fuels must be bought from out of state.
Davis: Alec Baldwin was responsible
Alec Baldwin personally broke every single rule of basic firearm safety that exists, the president of the Gun Owners of Vermont says.
Coggin: Hackers target Americans’ drinking water supply
Hackers attacked a Maine water treatment system in July. The government didn’t report it until mid-October. Nationwide, drinking water systems are vulnerable to ransomware demands.
Putney school grad joins with Soros to bankroll U.S. media
A graduate of the politically-progressive Putney School is teaming up with George Soros to bankroll local media around the country.
The Jeffries Cartoon: You Have to Be Taught How To Hate
Water Cooler: Murder suspect killed wife, then ate lunch at Maxi’s / Burlington cops seek stabbing suspect
Workers at a Waterbury restaurant are creeped out that a man who police say had just killed his wife then sat down for lunch with his sister and brother-in-law.
Vax-only strategy not working, time for mask mandate, lawmakers say
An 89% vaccination rate of eligible Vermonters hasn’t stopped the pandemic. Some lawmakers now want an indoor mask mandate, too.
All schools must stay masked until January 18
Masking will remain in all Vermont public schools until January 18.
Tennessee senator implores Sanders to stop unlimited Green Cards for Big Tech
Bernie’s all about good jobs for Americans. So why does his “Build Back Better” legislation eliminate caps on green cards for foreign workers employed by Big Tech?
First UVM hoopster to play in NBA released by Rockets
Anthony Lamb, former UVM basketball star and the first Catamount to play in the NBA, was just released by his team.
Climate Council Crack Up
A Mack truck of expensive climate reduction recommendations are coming our way. State officials are already preparing for the worst – electorally speaking.
Conflict of interest in NEK ‘equity’ instruction?
Members of the board of directors of school ‘equity’ contractors are also on local school boards awarding contracts. Conflict of interest?
Young socialist admits socialism hasn’t worked anywhere
The misery of American Indians is due in part to the federal government imposing socialism on native peoples, Charlie Kirk tells a UVM socialist.
Spence: single-member House districts benefit minorities
The Vermont Legislature should walk the talk about systemic racism and do away with multi-member House districts, which minority leaders in Vermont and nationwide say do harm to minority representation.
Water Cooler: nurses needed / volunteers build kitchen at Burlington homeless camp / repeat offender in Burlington / the Baldwin effect: ban real guns in movies
Solution to Baldwin movie killing: give the guns to computers.
Liberal D/Progs demand new State of Emergency, mask mandate
Liberal D’s and Progs demand another State of Emergency and a universal mask mandate. The nation’s highest vaccination rate and all of the vax mandates just aren’t working, apparently.
Lawmaker: Legislature ignored reapportionment recommendations a decade ago
Two weeks ago the Legislative Apportionment Board recommended single-seat districts ONLY in the Vermont House of Representatives. Will the House ignore the LAB recommendation? It’s happened before, Rep. Mark Higley says.
Drunken man denied alcohol purchase, dies in gunfire
When a Greensboro man intervened on behalf of a Hardwick store clerk, the drunken man denied the purchase of alcohol accosted the Greensboro man at his home – and was shot dead, police say.
Prayer vigil participant pelted with eggs
A prayer vigil participant in front of the Barre Planned Parenthood was pelted with eggs.
No sexual identity in sex ed, Agency of Ed advises teachers
Don’t use the words ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ in sex ed. Girls are ‘people with uteruses.’ It’s all in the public school guidelines, thoughtfully provided by Outright Vermont and Planned Parenthood.
Another Windham County fire
At least the fourth fire in rural Windham County this month occurred Friday in an abandoned motel in Marlboro.
Eshelman: bipolar America
America oscillates between moral arrogance and ritualized self-abasement.
Fauci best paid fed ($432,000)
NEW FEATURE – National News Updates you won’t read anywhere else, from CLG.
Law school can hide anti-slavery mural, judge rules
Vermont Law School can cover up an anti-slavery mural painted inside one of its buildings in 1993, a judge ruled last week.
Women padlocked behind doors freed, trafficking suspected
Women padlocked into Rutland apartments were freed Friday by Homeland Security and State Police tactical teams.
Weaponizing the IRS
If Biden REALLY wants to stop tax evasion among the rich, why would he target bank accounts and transactions of $600?
McClaughry: school choice would lower heat on CRT
Vermont’s professional class of educators agrees: decisions about our children’s education are too important to be left to unqualified parents.
Water Cooler: prepping for Afghans / selectboard member recalled / Maria von Trapp daughter dies / embezzlement in Dorset
Today’s headlines from Vermont media.
Biden banking nominee’s Soviet-style economics ‘might make even Bernie Sanders blush’
Saule Omarova is an enthusiastic supporter of centralized government planning, which resulted in constant, massive food shortages in the Soviet Union in which she was born.
Fatal shooting in Greensboro
A 27-year-old East Hardwick man was shot to death Wednesday.
Evslin: how many have died due to booster delay?
Inaction by the Biden administration is killing people willing to be vaccinated by denying them the shots they need.
Rehabbed bald eagle back in The Wild
An injured adult bald eagle that went through three months of ‘rehab’ was released back into the wild in Berlin on October 20.
Water Cooler: VT principals crack down on sporting events / school meals affected by supply chain woes / Airport manager wants his job back
As school principals crack down on sexist and racist comments at high school games, a black Winooski soccer player is looking at possible assault charges for head-butting an Enosburg player. It’s all in today’s Water Cooler.
Ferlazzo shot wife in head twice, police say
Emily Ferlazzo died when her husband Joseph shot her twice in the head with a handgun Saturday in their converted bus/camper, police say.
VT podcaster predicted pandemic, vax mandates in September 2019
Her language may be salty but Claudia Stauber of ‘Cabin Talk’ in September 2019 accurately predicted the coming pandemic and vaccine mandates.
Bloody side-view mirror leads to arrest in fatal hit-and-run
The side-view mirror that broke off when a pickup truck killed Mendon pedestrian Henry Miles was traced back to its owner, Dylan Gunnip of Rutland, police say.
Fatal collision with tractor-trailer
A Fairfax man is dead after his Volvo struck a tractor-trailer head-on in Sheldon.
Gagne: a living child is a sign of hope
A woman’s lost sense of dignity is not restored when she is lying on her back with her feet in stirrups having the contents of her uterus sucked out.
Pandemic $$ awarded to fight dumping untreated wastewater
The Scott administration is targeting federal ARPA money to help towns and cities eliminate the need to dump combined stormwater/wastewater into lakes and streams.
Water Cooler: Permanent housing for homeless / Charlie Kirk / 235-year old home torn down
The Scott administration’s decision to extend homeless hotel funding through Dec. 31 isn’t good enough for some advocates.
Navy Seabee, former VT lawmaker explains decision to vax
We can never become a force that weighs its obedience against our own political ideologies. “Embrace the suck” or get out.
So far in October, 47% VT Covid fatalities were fully vaccinated
Slightly less than half of Vermont’s October’s Covid-19 fatalities were fully vaccinated.
Hospital treatment for Covid-19 described
Patients with Covid-19 admitted to Vermont hospitals are treated with oxygen, anti-inflammatories, and (sometimes) the anti-viral drug remdesivir.
Burlington Council progs relent, agree to hire more cops
Two Burlington City Council Progressives finally saw the light and agreed to hire more cops. Politically incorrect from a cultural Marxist point of view, and maybe ineffective too. Who would want to be a cop in Burlington?
Pandemic relief $$ to weatherize 550 homes
$7.9 million of fed $$ will help the Scott administration weatherize 60% more homes.
Essex school board chair resigns, replacement sought
The chair of the Essex-Westford school board – now living in Grand Isle County – has resigned. The board will select a replacement to serve until April.
Husband murdered wife in Bolton, police say
The 41-year-old husband of a 22-year woman will be arraigned today for murdering her in their bus in Bolton Saturday.
Biden to revise $600 IRS oversight to $10K
Backlash against the Biden plan to give the IRS oversight over bank accounts and transactions of more than $600.
Violence in Vermont classroom not isolated incident
To some Vermonters, the well-publicized incident of a seven-year-old trashing a classroom and terrorizing fellow students illustrates the need for school choice.
