Lawmakers to give cronies literal license to steal.
Lawmakers to give cronies literal license to steal.
The point of this true story is that no one is coming to save you. You must save yourself. We are inches away from a world where the Rule of Law is nonexistent.
The Vermont Defend the Guard Act is part of a nationwide effort to return control of state militias to the states and to the U.S. Congress as specified in the U.S. Constitution
The General Assembly (G.A.) cannot enforce us to abandon our cars or oil heaters.
In his Budget address, Gov. Scott called for cooperation and urged the Legislature to recognize the budget pressures in a year after record spending and with pandemic aid drying up.
A perfect storm of legislative incompetence and bureaucratic bumbling.
Several Hartford residents chided Selectboard Member Lannie Collins for his statement made regarding Drag Queen Story Hour.
His work is a stark contrast to what we see today in the U.S., with any and every excuse given to divide us. We seem to have turned to violence and destruction with very little regard for humanity.
October 7th was about Arabs taking Palestine back by force and moving it back into the House of Islam, or Dar Al Islam.
Legislators would be well served to consider policies that would bolster education and training practices that continue to meet the objective, drive down youth tobacco use.
More ideological virtue signaling with other people’s money.
What Mark Zuckerberg’s cows tell us.
Morristown held its second community Crime and Concerns meeting at the People’s Academy auditorium this past Monday night.
As the censorship stranglehold loosens, risks, impacts and new findings related to covid injections are surfacing.
Rather than replace wild living trees with industrial dead solar panels, rather than surrender the Biosphere and the Ethnosphere to the Technosphere, we need to start saving every wild acre left.
The Act 127 & 173 Follies!
Everything runs on oil products – right or wrong – and no one can change the whole world.
Your local licensed barber has far greater required qualifications.
H.634 is the point of the tyrannical spear aimed to eliminate the statutory language that has empowered Vermont’s School Choice programs for decades.
“Poverty for thee, but not for me!”
If we lack any sense of transparency, limits, or regulation, we might find ourselves subject to man-caused atmospheric effects without knowledge of recourse.
We the American people must not allow bureaucratic “experts” to endanger our lives, lie to us, or curtail our constitutional rights. Never again.
Basically, Democracy means we can rule on anything we like, as long as 50% of people say we can. That is about as dangerous a rule as I’ve ever heard.
Vermont taxpayers paying for this bad behavior to stay high and unproductive in society, and to never seek help – how is that safe or right?
Rep. Laura Sibilia introduces legislation intentionally opposed to her constituents’ interests.
It’s like ending crime by defunding the police.
All social theories sooner or later are shown to be flawed. This is because no theory, no matter how brilliant, can capture all of reality.
If big government ever earns a final epitaph, it will be this ‘Here lies a contrivance engineered by know-it-alls who broke eggs with abandon but never, ever created an omelet.”
Malletts Bay – proclaimed the Jewel of Lake Champlain – is degrading faster than any other section of lake, and it is because of development.
Pay the governor the same as legislators? Some Dem lawmakers are trying to make a point.
If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. (Galatians 5:15)
Soviet-style central planning does not work!
Proponents of climate change action are increasingly coming to terms with the factual reality that renewable energy manufacturing cannot possibly provide the baseload of power the world requires.
This crisis is solvable. But state leaders’ proclivity for short-term, wasteful solutions, hinders effective and lasting change.
This all seems like we are paying for our own destruction.
With School Choice Tuitioning there is a choice. In a monopolized traditional public-school format, parents get what they get.
Apparently, our legislators see the boundaries and shrug them off. This is akin to me getting elected and proposing a ban on all abortions despite the recent limits on abortion restrictions Vermonters put into the state constitution.
Despite being Federally illegal: Bring your own drugs! What could go wrong?
Only half of the homicides were gun crimes, a fact lawmakers choose to ignore.
Efficiency Vermont is not different than most Vermont nonprofits that are, in effect, quasi-state agencies. They have substantial mission creep.
Chick-fil-A is targeted for its faith yet again.
It’s becoming more clear to me that Vermont is not the main target at all, but rather high leverage, political, collateral damage.
Overstrict rules are counterproductive
What is less likely to make news are act of kindness, generosity, good Samaritans, people stepping in to help those who have suffered misfortunes.
Failure to review and reflect on the entirety of all relevant information almost guarantees that the conclusions drawn will be neither justified nor reliable.
“Safe injection” sites are coming to a community near you.
John McClaughry would be deemed a national treasure if Vermont had not claimed him first.
Under Article 22 of the Vermont Constitution, Vermonters may be required to pay for medical procedures related to reproductive choice through increases in health insurance premiums.
A story of global bureaucratic incompetence.
Burlington’s outgoing Mayor lists what he’d like to see Vermont do for energy affordability and climate,
Now it’s in the House, and you have a chance to let your Representatives know what you think about all this. Please do!
At the end of the day, our Democracy is only as robust as our willingness to defend those ideals – even when we prefer different outcomes.
The majority of these bills are in place ready to be taken up and molded into legislation that will serve Vermonters and keep Vermont affordable.
The Vermont Legislature has a modus operandi: “Make As Darn Complicated As Possible”
We are long past the time for more debate. It is time for comparable State action to address wasteful and exclusionary State land use and housing policies.
I take leave of the Ethan Allen Institute, and of my 30 years of biweekly efforts to defend and advance the principles that over the years have made our little state strong, proud and free.
I felt compelled to correct misleading statements that misrepresented the values and goals of wildlife advocates. It’s okay to disagree, but the continued misinformation needs to be addressed.
Any legislator who cannot refocus efforts away from carbon should move to China and help them deal with their rapidly growing coal situation.
Instead of raising the fees on every Vermonter, why don’t state lawmakers draw their wanted revenue from their political paymasters?
You’ll often hear Southerners claim the Civil War was an issue of state’s rights. They aren’t wrong. They are just lacking a bit of detail: state’s rights over slavery.
There is some discussion that at least some Republicans will offer a Taxpayer Bill of Rights bill for consideration in 2024. Let’s give them support when they do.
If housing costs and interest rates were half of what they are today and a labor force was available, multi-family housing (which is what is needed) would never see an ounce of concrete poured in Vermont’s towns and villages.
Canada represents the cutting edge of progressive thinking where socialized health care meets socialized mass murder under the guise of your having asked for it.
The real disaster is the lack of awareness by the participants of the unintended consequences that double digit spending increases wreak on current and potential future community members.
More from the Front Porch Forum/VT Legislative Cartel – this time on the Education charade.
The old standard is not illegal to own or use. You simply cannot sell them in Vermont or transport them into the state for sale after the first of the year.
King represents a class of political actors who make progress impossible.
If Progressives keep getting elected, then the bed Burlingtonians are laying in now will be their bed of the future, and the most important City in Vermont will continue to erode.
VDC readers are confirming the totalitarian nature of Front Porch Forum (FPF), couched in the guise of a so-called Public Benefit Corporation.
As a young black Vermont man who holds conservative views, I do not feel oppressed.
Vermont’s governance of the wild amidst changing values
What’s really going on with the Colorado Ballot Ruling.
Antony Blinken explained that well at a press conference which got almost no coverage.
The children of the district are woefully behind / In mathematics and literacy, but not manipulation of mind / “Social and Emotional Learning stands strong in our midst” / Says Director of Equity, with smile affixed.
Vermont Republicans are currently earning an F for our participation in government with over half the municipalities having no representation. But it is not too late.
A prelude to future resource conflicts?
71 percent of Vermonters oppose any carbon tax/fee/surcharge on gasoline and diesel, 59 percent strongly oppose it. So, lawmakers, how about you listen to your constituents for a change?
China is now building 22 of the 58 reactors under construction around the world, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The country currently operates 55 reactors.
The legislative majority in Montpelier seems to think that Vermonters will rejoice at their enactment of a radical agenda, even though it will have no detectable effect on the Earth’s future climate.
Palestinian authority textbooks contain incendiary statements about Jews and Israel.
The Democrats holding the supermajority have given Vermonters the wrong prescription for how to deal with the problems we face with these kinds of major weather events.
Welch calling on Biden to swiftly nominate candidates to fill upcoming vacancies on the USPS Board of Governors who will fight for our rural communities and hold Postmaster Louis DeJoy accountable.
I suspect some want this to be a hate crime to fit prevailing divisive narratives, but the investigation will continue on.
I don’t get it about the self-proclaimed “richest town in Vermont” needing to be bailed out by the mostly-not-so-rich other towns in Vermont.
Why do those opposed to hunting and trapping ignore this reality? The answer is simple really. They don’t actually care about wildlife, they just care about removing human influence from wildlife.
He is more than a song and a set of legendary stories. He is the God who made you and wants to know you, and you to know Him, at Christmas and every day unto eternity.
Presenting a cost/benefit proposal is really the only accurate way to gauge genuine support or opposition to a policy. Almost anybody will support almost anything if they think it’s free.
But the protection can’t be selective.
What is of grave concern is the precedent this decision may set for all hunting dogs and equally disconcerting represents yet another attempt by so-called wildlife advocacy groups to chip away at our hunting culture.
VTDigger no longer bothering to hide the bias! Gaye Symington is made the new president of the organization.
In the second batch of poll results released by CFV, we discover that Vermonters identify housing, cost of living, and public safety as the top issues.
Canary in the coalmine….It’s not that only half of the high school students can read to grade level. It’s that half of them can only read to a first-grade level.
We don’t have a “Climate Emergency”, we have an Education Emergency and common- sense problem.
A group called Campus Voter Project is encouraging out-of-state college students to vote in the college town in which they happen to be on election day.
Principal tries to keep a stabbing out of the media. Hard drugs and a gun found on a playground by children. The infamous Blue Room where children are kept secluded…..a huge property tax increase won’t keep school leaders accountable.
The pupil weight changes mean that in the next fiscal year, some districts will increase school budgets and see tax rate reductions, while others might experience a tax rate hike even with flat spending. In addition, it has been nearly 16 years since Vermont provided school construction aid.
Intelligence agencies changed their focus from working together to counter terrorism to countering populism, which spread via social media and resulted in the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.
Even when the books are cooked, the numbers still don’t add up. And our virtue-signaling lawmakers know it.
The 2024 Vermont legislature will convene a month from now and its members will have to laser focus on the shocking increase projected for education spending.
If these are the best ideas that Burlingtonians can get from their next mayor, we are really screwed.