Can our State break free from Federal dependency?
Can our State break free from Federal dependency?
How U.S. overpayments prop up cheaper systems
Democracy is many things. One of those things is delicate. May we never live in a society where we believe that either violence or despair are the only options.
The Legislature passed the buck to the Commission to come up with solutions, and the commission, having wasted half a year, passed the buck right back. (Sad trombone slide.)
If this kind of vicious hatred towards Jews in Canada were directed at Blacks or LGBTQ folks, the Vermont Bar would surely have a serious discussion.
The new regulations advocate “reducing focus on chronic disease risk reduction” and more on “improving the lifespan.”
Legislation designed to rescue American students from the ideology of far-left academia.
Thanks to soaring electricity demand in China and India, coal consumption will hit another new record this year: 8.8 billion tons.
Time to repeal this unelected, worse than useless committee.
Total expected cost through 2031, for a system that is not guaranteed to work as expected: $88 M.
Ayotte has been politely supportive, which we should not mistake for a road to Damascus conversion. But on deportation, she appears to be on board.
As a former liberal, conservative, and libertarian and, for years, I am happy to say that I have now freed myself from politics and voting.
The House Republicans plan to introduce legislation to repeal Act 18, the Clean Heat Standard.
Flooding from their base in the northern Idlib province, HTS, or Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, is now Syria’s ruling para-military presence.
The most recent animal cruelty reports, .documented by a federal inspector at the Vermont Packinghouse in N. Springfield, VT, should result in criminal charges.
Understanding the history of the U.S. and World Trade
When growing in-migration and substance abuse collides with decades of elite-driven anti-housing policies, the poorest and the most needy suffer.
Don’t force businesses to install EV charging stations their customers don’t want/need.
How much are you really paying?
The Global Warming Solutions Act, the Clean Heat Standard, and the 100% Renewable Electricity laws are taking us into a cul-de-sac of energy poverty.
Texas lawsuit alleges mega-funds manipulated energy markets for illegal gain.
PUC recommends not adopting obligations; cites lack of data, and harm to low-income Vermonters.
Better a medal like this goes to Vermont’s Mary Beerworth.
Animals in the womb get better pain management than fetuses undergoing abortion.
This comes after Vermont courts ruled schools can vaccinate kids against parents’ wishes.
How policies displace responsibility
At dusk in November, lights will flicker on and in the hills, dales, and deep woods throughout VT as hunters gather for our 16-day unofficial holiday.
Can a state really confer a right on its citizens that so clearly contradicts the Law of Nature?
Not terrible policies voters intelligently disagree with.
Beyond refuting charges; Go on offensive with promise to women
A one-century perspective from Roland Greene
This piece by Ross Barkan reflects my thinking about what ails the flailing Democratic Party.
By banning guns in bars Burlington has broken State law, namely 24 VSA 2295, better known as the “pre-emption statute.”
Recent reports on the status of Our State’s healthcare, education, and housing are the “canaries in the coal mine,” and it seems that they are not doing well.
Money committee chairs simply do not care about taxpayers.
Vermonters are being scammed—and they’re paying for it twice.
Our Legislature’s leaders in recent years have bragged incessantly about “doing the work” when really they’re just been leading endless virtue parades.
This isn’t Welch’s first attempt at such legislation. A similar version introduced in 2021 failed to gain traction in Congress.
So, free advice to Republicans House members here…. Run your own candidate for Speaker. Don’t back either of these two. Put forward a candidate who will run on and articulate the agenda that just propelled you all to a historic victory
“Former Turning Point director indicted for stealing from New Hampshire nonprofit.”
I genuinely feel like in the past four years since graduating college we have been living under a dark, dystopian government.
In 2020, I measured my dad’s care for me with a single metric: his vote.
Appointments to health-related agencies are important bellwethers of how much influence Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will bring to bear in the incoming administration.
If Baruth and White represent the worst kind of ideologically, out of touch radicals who see politics as a means to wield power over their constituents rather than represent them, Ram Hinsdale represents the worst kind of self-serving corruption.
Did the teachers counsel the kiddos that Trump is Hitler, and they will all be deported soon? Nothing like kiddie fear-porn by public servants inflicted on others’ children.
“Why is it socially acceptable – as a form of entertainment – for men to put on dresses, make up and high heels and act out every offensive stereotype of women (bitchy, catty, dumb, slutty, etc.) – but it is not socially acceptable – as a form of entertainment – for a white person to put on blackface and act out offensive stereotypes of African Americans?”
The comparison between drag shows and blackface is clearly nothing more than an excuse to be both racist and homophobic at the same time.
You not only failed to question the lies, challenge the lies, call out the lies, you actively enabled their lying. You circled the wagons around the Democrats’ talking points. Made champions out of the liars and silenced the critics.
In the online Marketplace of Ideas, there is no more stimulating Vermont food-for-thought stand.
What is more surprising? A Republican governor in a Democratic state, who stands against everything Trump espouses and who voted for his opponent, wins the governorship for a fifth time with 73 percent of the vote.
In the food processing sector alone, immigrants account for 35% of meat processing workers, 34% of workers in commercial bakeries, 30% of the labor in fruit and vegetable processing, and 25% of workers in seafood and other food processing
The hounds did not first ask whether these individuals were Republican or Democrat. Companion dogs have been attacked by bear and coyote hounds.
Along with their clergy roles, they were 1st Lieutenants in the U.S. Army’s Chaplain Service in WWII. Because of their commitment, they became “Immortal,” as you will soon find out.
There is also the reality of amending the Global Warming Solutions Act. Strike the mandate. Replace it with a Vermont Strong set of goals to achieve any carbon reduction that reduces my cost of living.
“The Democrats’ arrogance is what’s wrong with this country. Bad food, bad education, bad healthcare… is hidden by liberal speech, Obama smiles, and more EMPTY promises, which Trump took advantage of (which any good sociopath will do).”
Going into Election Day, officials and pro-democracy advocates braced for the worst. What a difference a day — and a result — makes.
Vermont Republicans should say as loudly as they can, “GOT IT!,” put forward a full repeal of the Clean Heat Standard, and dare the Democrats to blow it off or vote no.
The Clean Heat Standard is slated to return to the legislature in January for another approval, which is now less likely. The original sponsor of the measure, Senator Chris Bray, D-Addison, was one of the lawmakers to lose re-election last week.
We should make peace with the climate, and each other
At its peak, [VT Yankee] the plant provided around one-third of the state’s electricity, all without emitting greenhouse gases.
Elon Musk wrote on X, “The people of America gave Donald Trump a crystal clear mandate for change tonight.”
With the election in the history books, what will Vermont look like when a new Legislature takes charge two years from now?
The traditional Democrat Party is dead. It’s gone. Progressivism has absorbed it. Progressivism is a euphemism for today’s postmodern-Socialism.
Wrenner frequently emphasizes her independence from party leadership, but her voting record suggests otherwise.
But with vote by mail, what happens at the kitchen table does not stay at the kitchen table where, if we are to take the marital dynamic portrayed in the ad as its presented, this husband would be looking over his wife’s shoulder as she made her choice.
For these reasons, there is no excuse to not know the effect of our vote. We need only compare the policies of the Trump years to that of the Biden-Harris years.
And most of what folks think of when hearing the term is the peculiar leaders of these governments and the antisemitic atrocities of the Nazis.
Imagine if anti-gun advocates displayed a sign in their front yard stating, “This household is against gun ownership; there are no firearms here.”
FoMoCo’s third-quarter losses are being made public just two months after the company announced it was killing a planned three-row, all-electric SUV.
Foremost, with 65% of all women in support of reproductive rights, it’s no wonder why Mr. Trump is failing to gain the support of women. His creepy behavior and engineering the repeal of Roe v. Wade will be the downfall of Mr. Trump’s campaign.
“In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader. Obsessive, disciplined, and dictatorial, he was a rarely seen veteran militant who learned Hebrew over the years spent in Israeli prisons and who carefully studied his enemy
The legislature also needs to be more mindful of what Vermonters can afford, and we need to repair our economy so that our children don’t have to leave the state in order to earn a decent living.
atiently He waits as we build bombs with our tax dollars to have them dropped on innocent children around the world only to spend more tax dollars to have innocent babies murdered in our mother’s wombs.
Rob Roper tells the Public Utilities Commission why supporters’ claims about the Clean Heat Standard “are observably, demonstrably, and obviously false.” So can you.
Because of a lack of a “culture of safety,” bystander professionals fail to speak up.
The only candidates on the ballot that will not destroy the home heat industry, which my coworkers and I rely upon to support our families in Vermont, are Republicans.
As Vermont’s cost of living rises and its tax environment becomes increasingly burdensome, the state’s ability to attract and retain talent, businesses, and investment has come into question.
They love to hate the “MAGA” people (and all the baloney propaganda they have invested in maligning them), and there is no pivot to hating “MAHA.”
In recent decades, the state’s approach to control has evolved into land-use policies, zoning laws, and environmental regulations—most notably Act 250—all of which continue to impact Vermont’s rural communities.
With basic CC interest at about 22% someone’s making a lot of money. They, will make a ton more when we are forced to only use credit cards. But by far the biggest fear is government control.
VP Kamala Harris said in a recent interview that “freedom of speech is a privilege.” To this I would counter that, no – it is a right, and an inalienable one at that. Just imagine how astonished these same powerful people will be if they succeed in collapsing the First Amendment, and then are silenced by opposing forces in the future.
Most letters to the editor report how ‘nice’ the candidates are. But that’s not the main qualification?
Although we can improve the way we pay for education, we have more of a spending problem than a funding problem, and until we figure out how to reduce our education spending, our tax bills will continue to go up, regardless of whether those bills are for property, income, sales, or some other tax!
Is this Vermont’s goal, to force Vermonters out of the state?
And this one really gets the old jaw to drop: “Bake sales.” Yeah, sure! At an average cost of $2 each, we would only have to sell around 100 million chocolate chip cookies to cover the current over-spending gap – assuming parents foot the cost of ingredients. Sound thinking here from the brains of those charged with preparing our young people for future of success.
Agenda 21 is not a conspiracy theory; it is a real plan of action created by the United Nations in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit. The document outlines voluntary steps nations should take to achieve sustainable development, including land use planning, protecting ecosystems, managing resources, and reducing carbon emissions.
Truthfully I do not blame these kids at all. It’s what they’re being taught, (that the world is going to end in 5 years) and its all because of us terrible humans! I went through the Vermont schools system, and I can remember laying in my bed at night as a middle schooler, unable to sleep because I was afraid the ice caps would melt and flood everywhere.
To be crystal clear, I’ve never sent an anonymous letter to anyone, ever. Notwithstanding that fact, the Democrat party continues with the claim that “despite criminal interference on his behalf, Democratic and Independent voters in Guilford and Vernon will reject MAGA extremist Jason Herron.”
The common refrain seems to be, “Don’t worry, the state will pay for it.” However, this mindset creates a dangerous financial spiral that leaves both residents and the government worse off. As state spending grows, so does the expectation that it can cover an ever-expanding list of social programs and environmental goals.
There are many issues that are causing great concern among Vermonters, as I am hearing from most of the people to whom I speak in my Brattleboro District 7. I encourage all to spread the word, raise questions, and speak out. This is a critical time for all of us here in Vermont.
So, for the Republicans to take control of the senate for the first time since the 1990s, they would have to hold the seven seats they have, win eight more, plus that LTG race. Can they do it? There is a path!
Fish and Wildlife is well aware that the fisher population is in danger due to rodenticide poisoning and other threats, however they still allow a recreational trapping season with no limit on the number of animals that may be killed.
Unlike Phil, John was a Democrat when he was in the Vermont legislature. “The Democratic Party, when I first entered politics in 2003, looked after working class and poor people,” Rodgers said. “And they don’t do that anymore.”
John not only supports Vermont’s traditional rural way of life, he lives it. He farms the Rodgers Family 200-year-old farm in the Northeast Kingdom. He harvests timber off the Rodgers land and trucks it to local timber mills.
Frequently, those on the hunt for more tax revenue suggest that the sales and use tax law should be expanded to charge the tax on services—think attorney fees, physician and hospital charges, automobile repairs and maintenance, and the like. How about making the person who cuts or styles your hair a tax collector? Or maybe the neighborhood kid who cuts your lawn?
The cartoon characters laugh and cheer as they sing “…we don’t know where we’re going but we’re merrily, merrily, merrily on our way…!” Well, that’s our legislature and their Clean Heat Standard …and, so, where are we going with VT-CHS?
I also concur with the Governor that the Supermajority’s policies do not represent Vermonters overall views and more importantly their purse strings. Our families expect reasonable legislation with policies that will help hard working Vermonters. Not drive them out of the state. At the Lamoille County Field Days, folks told me they want to see the return of local control of their school budgets, programs, and staffing.
Nothing illustrated their fake news more than the lies told by Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance during the recent two televised debates. Certainly Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz both did their share of embellishing some truths and falsehoods and exaggerating answers. But very seldom did they lie, and when they did, they did not repeat it.
Of course you won’t touch the third rail of questioning why the Vermont political sky is so blue, because it takes courage to push back against the establishment here in the Green Mountain State.
So, is anyone in authority systematically looking into just how rampant these sorts of things are? No! Instead, we are constantly being gaslit that Vermont’s elections are not only just fine, they are the cleanest and most perfectest ever since going in on all mail all the time. This is observably false.