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.
On top of Vermonters dealing with 30-100% inflation and lingering hardships from Covid lockdowns, the Democrat Supermajority in our Vermont legislature have over-ridden our Governor’s vetoes and raised our taxes more than 5 times! You would think they would not want to increase tax burdens on their Vermont constituents at this time.
The October 7th attack was not based on the popularized righteous fight against “the Israeli occupation” or “the brave Resistance of the Palestinian people against European-capitalist-colonial- Zionism,” as taught in too many Western universities and colleges to impressionable and malleable-minded student bodies.
My own two daughters are leaving state and will probably never return because they just cannot afford to live here. As a member of my local fire department and rescue squad, I have witnessed firsthand the destruction that the opioid epidemic has inflicted on Vermont families.
Based on my experience in government, those who are protected from accountability act increasingly irresponsibly.
The State of Vermont believes it is their responsibility to provide mental health care to your children. No wonder mental health services expenses have gone up at public schools! Many people and parents think these services are needed. Please be aware of the potential dangers of turning over mental health services to the State via the public school system without parental direction, consent, and oversight.
Attallah also commented on the pager attacks in Lebanon, in which Israel has not officially claimed responsibility: “Taiwan manufactures pagers, and Israel injects them with a few milligrams of explosives, and then it does it again, and it can do this yet again in the future, in a way that will be much more lethal and criminal.
The shoe of elitism just doesn’t fit John Rodgers: it is time for Dave Zuckerman to pick up his glass slipper and put it back on his own foot where it belongs.
From the passage of Act 60 (school funding) and the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) to a recent data privacy bill, the Vermont legislature seems increasingly comfortable crafting laws that require court action to enforce.
To watch this story develop from the beginning to what it has become is incredible. The work we are doing is truly having an impact, and I think that’s all we could ever ask for.
If elected, I pledge to be a “NO” vote on the “Clean Heat” carbon tax and any bill raising costs to heat our homes. Both incumbent senators twice voted for this home heat carbon tax system and voted twice to override Governor Scott’s veto.
The Rube Goldberg Carbon Tax unworkably complicated? Pshaw! sneered its sponsors. Misinformation! cried the media propagandists.
Facts matter. There was a path to lower property taxes this year and next year. The Legislature chose not to take it.
I am often a Republican but always an American. I voted for Trump in 2016 to a large degree because he wasn’t Hillary Clinton and voted for Biden in 2020 because he wasn’t Trump. Although I disagree with her on many domestic issues, I will be happy to vote FOR Harris if she consistently articulates a strong foreign policy.
And let’s attribute to most of those who are homeless the desire to improve their conditions and obtain permanent shelter. Vermonters are generous and compassionate; we want to help. The question is the best way to help, regardless of a person’s most recent place of residence.
The other day, I finally succumbed to Fear Of Missing Out and saw Matt Walsh’s Am I Racist? in the theater.
Our municipal clerks are doing the best they can, but our laws don’t give them any tools to detect mail-in ballot fraud.
Only a handful of Vermont real estate housing developers could contend with the cost, time, and technical/legal aspects of prosecuting the local/State approvals.
The next legislative session will be critical in many areas, including education finance and property taxes, rising health care costs, lack of housing and heating costs. Our towns were particularly hard hit with education property taxes this year (Chittenden 24%, Killington 29%, Mendon 22% and Pittsfield 29%). Key lawmakers chose to proceed with their property tax bill rather than find a compromise with the Governor.
In Sanders’ speech, there is never any mention of Hamas terrorists consistently hiding behind innocent Palestinian civilians because that would be raining on their proper propaganda parade.
The profound impacts of a president’s judicial appointments can be seen in, for example, President Trump’s handiwork in ensuring Americans were stripped of their right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Dobbs overturned nearly 50 years of legal precedent, dismantled women’s rights to make our own healthcare decisions, and clouded and confused the future of reproductive liberty for millions of Americans
All able-bodied homeless, if a resident, should be required to work to help offset the conditions of their homelessness and get invested in the local workforce to help compliment our labor force.
During the September 4 meeting Kornheiser said, “I honestly don’t know what problem we’re trying to solve.” A line she repeated a handful of times throughout.
This quest will ensure that the massive machinery of the Vermont school system with its highest in-the-country ratio of staff to students stays sufficiently overfunded. The education system has become an entrenched and bloated bureaucracy, concerned primarily with perpetuating itself, which is the nature of a bureaucracy.
During my academic studies (1990’s), this hypothesis of “CO2 Causes Global Warming” was so incredibly debunked, it was not even discussed among students or faculty. So I began researching it to find out what the new evidence was that has caused it to become the foundation of so much taxation and political rhetoric: “The science is proven.”
The qualities of a patriotic citizen can be seen in one who obeys the law, respects authority, contributes to society and community, performs civic duties, shows courtesy and respect for the rights of others, is trustworthy and honest, demonstrates tolerance, accountability, and shows moral courage when needed.
But there are additional issues as well: environmental requirements that are stricter than federal requirements; investigations related to historic preservation and archeological studies; and a permitting process that seems to have no end!
While second homeowners do contribute to the tourism industry, particularly in resort towns, short-term rentals are frequently blamed for driving up property prices in areas already suffering from limited housing stock. This raises important concerns about how these properties affect both home sales and rental markets across Vermont.
It will increase your heating bills, and that is the real issue. Sibilia ignores the many local critics of the Unaffordable Heat act from right here in Vermont – including our Governor, who vetoed the idiotic scheme twice. She ignored them when they testified before her committee, ignored their thousands of phone calls and emails urging her and her colleagues to vote ‘no’ when the bill was up for passage.
“One such reform might be migrating public school personnel management structures more toward merit-based principles and systems while diminishing those based on longevity. Such would reduce pressures on both operating and retirement budgets while maintaining high levels of competency in our classrooms.”
I wasn’t planning on running. What changed my mind? I got my property tax bill!
Many people with a variety of relevant expertise testified before House and Senate Committees that completely transforming how we heat our homes and businesses, make hot water, and cook our food was going to be wildly expensive, incredibly disruptive, and logistically difficult if not impossible because, duh.
But what’s really behind these rising heating costs? Global oil prices, which are completely out of our control. Big oil companies set prices that Vermonters have to pay. And while small, local heating oil companies are doing their best to help, six have closed this past year alone. These closures mean fewer choices for Vermonters and more dependence on big companies that raise prices whenever they want.
Vermont has had a housing issue my entire real estate career. We have been unaffordable for 40 years! Vermont citizens are always last.
Mixed with hatred of former President Donald Trump, Democrats find the identity Trifecta of Harris electrifying. But political honeymoons do not last forever.
As more parents hesitate to vaccinate their offspring, government authorities claim their worries are due to disinformation or misinformation. The conflict has caused states to track medical and religious exemptions from school vaccination mandates.
The assumption is that such inspection is proof of something guaranteeing a better public health outcome when there’s no evidence that this is the case. The COVID debacle aside, State and Local departments of Health combined with national standards have failed to stop every instance of commercial food poisoning or death.
Western journalism stopped obscuring its polarizing left-wing bias by bashing a multitude of socio-politico issues deemed unacceptable to their globalist agenda.
Here’s another fun glitch in this convoluted moronathon: there is no funding source in place to actually set up the program.
Based on gross revenue, staff size, and the actual number of entities, it is indisputable that in Vermont, one of the largest, if not the largest, sectors of the State’s economy is the nonprofit sector.
The final Potential Study of Clean Heat Standard is out. Myers Mermel nailed it.
Its nonsense to say that a Conservative cannot win against a Democrat-Socialist, because we are to Conservative. We are more of a true contrast from anyone on the other side. To me that is what is needed.
The Democrats didn’t even punt. They missed the kick entirely and left the ball on the field as they headed for the showers. Vermont deserves better.
Yes, Vermonters ARE selling their homes and leaving Vermont after receiving the property tax bill, a lobbyist and wife of a St. J real estate agent says.
Our Legislature should abandon the revolving door approach to prosecution of serial offenders. Here’s how to do it.
The higher our tax burden, the more loot they get to divvy up, and, yeah, they are definitely better off today than they were a year ago!
I pledge to you here and now that I will be a guaranteed “NO” vote on this and any bill designed to raise Vermonters’ costs to heat our homes and to keep warm in wintertime.
Get out there, get involved, help your candidates do what it takes to succeed in November! Er… actually September and October. The election effectively will be over by around October 15. Them’s the rules!
There are places that women should avoid for their own safety.
In the course of my short campaign for the State Senate to date, I have been the victim of the train of thought that all Republicans are alike.
Thefts ranging from businesses, homes, vehicles and theft of vehicles themselves are rising and raising concern across our community, region and state.
The key roll call votes driving up property taxes, energy costs, health insurance premiums and more.
Trump’s past comments on immigrants seem hypocritical, especially given his family’s, VP’s backgrounds.
Rules no liability even for experimental shots administered against parental wishes
It’s time we stop trying to “lead the nation” and start trying to “save our neighborhoods.”
“Let America Vote Act of 2024”: Noncitizen cannot vote in ANY taxpayer-funded elections in the US, held by or in any State, nor permitted locally.
A question every Vermonter should demand every candidate answer RIGHT NOW.
America deserves better than Donald Trump and JD Vance. Their brand of weirdness is not who we are.
The reporting of WCAX, Burlington Free Press, and Vermont Biz did not feature the cost per unit for the Main St. Family Housing multi-family apts.: $525,000.
The plaintiffs in the Vitale v. Bellows Falls Union High School case must take another bite of the School Choice judicial apple.
It is shocking to see how far Europe has fallen from traditional Western values, and where America is headed if we don’t get back on track.
And what are the right lessons?
Modernized voting, or election tampering?
“Maladapted” environmentalism does more harm than good.
As the Dems push extremist candidates, the VTGOP embraces moderates.
Now Rs have the wrong player at bat.
Why I am supporting a former Democrat to lead Vermont.
Poor Dave…. He thought he was being all good and woke, checking his white male privilege and using it to be a feminist ally and what does he get? “Creeper!” written in lipstick on his locker right before the prom.
Bought a copy and, reading it, quickly realized why he had stopped.
Coca-Cola’s single-use plastic bottle boondoggle.
Vermont has been a “California Car” state for many years, along with several of our neighbors.
Increased property assessments won’t increase the amount of the property tax credit.
EPA and UN eclipse logic with methane gaslighting.
Not to “non-public” charging stations.
It isn’t moderate to impose $17B in carbon fees or increase electric rates by $1B, the super majority voted for these over the Governor’s veto too.
What exactly is going on in Vermont with all of these studies? The State is paying big bucks to fund “studies” on how to spend even more tax dollars.
Clean Heat Standard was designed for the benefit of special interest groups and climate legislators with no understanding of economics, science, or Vermonters.
The defamation suit that Nina Jankowicz, former dir. of Homeland Sec.’s disinformation board, filed against Fox News was dismissed in DE, July 22.
Vermont does not have to struggle continuously. There’s an opportunity right in front of all Vermonters for themselves and the 14th star to shine bright. Seize the day.
Mass. Bill H4750 To eliminate Fathers and Mothers from birth certificates passes 40-0.
Spews misinformation about her Party’s misleadingly named “Affordable Heat Act” fiasco.
The 2024 election has completely changed with a single letter. It happened so swiftly and so absolutely that no one can be blamed for being a bit confused.
Why? You have to read it to believe it.
Pew Research indicates more than one in two (55%) “white women” who identify as liberal in their political ideology suffer from some form of serious depression or anxiety.
Two maxims that used to be part of investigative journalism have now fallen to the public: (1) do your own research and (2) follow the money.
We have witnessed an unprecedented amount of convoluted government activity shedding light on its current state.
Solar panel fields have been reclassified as farms.
Would require $3.20 per gallon carbon tax on home heating fuel.
Before Act 60, regardless of the funding formula then in place, every time the property tax reached about 70% of the cost of education, a tax revolt ignited..
Government counts solar panel arrays as agricultural lands.
Vermont taxpayers will foot the massive bill for legal costs
Harris has many disadvantages and questionable decisions to account for.
Republican Chairs must use this opportunity to mobilize all voters to see the necessity to shift the Senate with 11 or more Republican Senators.
The overarching question is whether education choice is constitutional. In most states, the answer is yes, as we highlight in a new study.
The real scandal here is that the Democrats are choosing a nominee for president in a manner like the Soviets in their day chose a General Secretary.
Meet the ‘Blob’: Vermont’s new Commission on Public Education or just another tax-and-spend scheme?
Cheap fakes of climate science.
As individuals we still possess the power to engage our political enemies with honor and integrity at a time when both of those appear to be passé.
Void, mistrial, or delay? Trump may not be a felon much longer.
A guide in Plain English!
