It’s campaign season. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a candidate looking for your vote. Here are a few questions to ask.

Vermont makes a serious mistake when it treats more housing and a larger population as automatic progress. Every subdivision cut into a field, forest edge, hillside or former farm permanently removes part of the landscape that makes this state worth living in.

Does CNBC’s “Best States” ranking make any sense?

Education. Government. Health care. Prop 3 would clear obstacles to a general strike freezing activity in all three sectors.

Twenty-three percent of Vermont residents are over 65, placing it second nationally to Maine, with 24 percent.

Vermont’s display on the National Mall during America’s 250th birthday celebration was a significant embarrassment on many levels.

Amber is striking because it preserves a moment forever—a leaf, a wing, a fragment of life suspended in golden resin. It allows us to look backward through time, capturing a world exactly as it once was. But what makes amber so mesmerizing is also what makes it dead. The moment inside can never change again.

The more a country embraces capitalism, even a little bit (see China here), the better it does, and when a country falls back into the trap of socialism it doesn’t take long for things to turn to a steaming crap.

Just how independent are millions of Americans whose daily lives are enslaved by addiction and debt?

Time to rethink almost everything

Other organizations rank states for economic competitiveness, economic outlook…. But “momentum?” What’s that all about? So, I asked my new AI pal Claude to help me define the term, and, yeah, what is shows is Vermont is pretty screwed.

Will the use of artificial intelligence promote a human-centered economy which recognizes the natural desire of the human person to work towards some end which is his own? Or will artificial intelligence become a new means by which some few impose their will upon the economic sphere and create a machine economy which treats people as objects with no higher needs than the energy required to keep the data centers of industry humming? 

It’s no wonder people die on the water.

The MAHA movement is going strong…

The pot calls the maple trees black.

Father Paolo Benanti, a Franciscan Friar of the Third Order and a well-respected author and teacher of moral philosophy recently noted in his article, appearing in the Wall Street Journal, “What we cannot predict becomes what we must fear.” 

The danger of raising a generation of victims

People lose trust when government becomes hard to understand. They lose trust when enforcement feels uneven. They lose trust when decisions seem distant from everyday life. And they lose trust when state agencies begin sounding like owners instead of caretakers.

Krowinski and Baruth leaving a disaster in their wake.

Even out of power, the Biden administration just keeps on giving.

As we gear up for the 2026 elections, all of our Republican incumbents can be proud of the work that was done and look ahead to doing even more if Vermonters once again grant our candidates their votes and support to keep making a difference the Vermont Way.

After years of studies, hearings, delays, working groups, and repeated acknowledgment that Vermont has a dangerous forensic system gap, I am deeply grateful to finally see meaningful movement forward.

If the tent of democracy is meant to be a shelter for all viewpoints, there must be civility, listening, compromise, and a retreat from hiding behind the veil of social media.

How Vermont’s governing class is destroying the State it claims to serve

Property taxes, student outcomes, demographics, labor force…

To truly fix healthcare, the U.S. must demand the same fair prices that other countries enjoy—and in doing so, force the world to rethink its dependence on American overpayments to sustain their systems.

A pathetic attempt to look like you’re doing something when actually doing nothing.

As Vermont lawmakers continue debating immigration enforcement, public safety, bail reform, school policy, and state authority, a deeper constitutional question increasingly sits underneath the arguments: What legal obligation does government actually owe individual citizens when foreseeable harm occurs?

And they double down GWSA’s “right to sue” provision.

Well, you know what, House Republicans? Your silence and poor arguments for voting in favor of Prop 4 “Equality of Rights” on the House floor yesterday spoke volumes. Volumes of fear of losing one’s seat and pandering to Democrats.

One of my great pleasures – still – is reading the New York Times in detail, in hard copy, in my hands many times a week, especially on Sunday.

Ben Cohen fights to win back Ben & Jerry’s from the corporate overlords

One solution is a Taxpayer Bill of Rights.