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.

S.157, a win for Vermont recovery

The problem is a too-powerful teachers union and their political allies.

Leading VT Democrats advocate for letting SNAP beneficiaries waste over $25 million a year on junk food.

This Wednesday evening, April 29, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will hold a controversial forum, “The Existential Threat of AI.” As an added draw to the doom and gloom, he has recruited two AI experts affiliated with China’s government, incurred the wrath of U.S. Treasury Scott Bessent, and received much other attention for the event.

If Republicans continue to focus on delivering on the affordability agenda while Democrats look for new taxes and to take away land rights voters may continue to move because Democrats seem to be particularly unresponsive to the voice of the people.

Covid-19 has waned, but the shot-pushers double down.

Be aware, rural Vermonters.  With the push to build more towers, Vermonters in rural areas can expect they, too, will be thrown into the volcano, without compensation and with the potential for your property to lose value and your health to be harmed.  That is our state’s and our country’s policy.

The federal and state income taxes that exist today are progressive by statute. The more one earns, the greater the tax. It has been such since 1913, when an income tax was allowed under the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. It has been reported that about 80% off all income taxes are paid by the top 10% of filers. They are also the major contributors to the non-profit community. So why is it that they are allowed to be ostracized by the Bernie crowd without any support at all from the non-profit world?

Vermont is at a tipping point. Vibrant little towns like my beloved Wallingford—where one still sees mothers pushing strollers, school kids trooping home with their backpacks, and deer hunters hanging out in driveways to show off their trophies—could become frigid, exquisitely-maintained mausoleums inhabited only by one or two affluent summer people whose children have long since left.

I know a lot of you have been exasperated by the reaction to the Iran war, from the Democratic grandees in the House and Senate, the liberal media.

The Green Mountain State is a textbook case of how progressives employ social justice causes to drain the wallets and dreams of citizens.

The emergency was over. The remote work was not.

VT Democrats will apparently never learn.

But Illinois technocrats and Democrats keep throwing more money at it.

Achieving scale through larger districts isn’t controversial because it won’t work — it’s controversial because it’s hard work. The proposal that passed the House Education Committee last week takes the easy way out.

The people who work the land and those who care for animals are not the type of people the Legislature wants here anymore.