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.
The over-arching problem from the above is that town and village governments have become an expensive burden for their residents, and the future cost could be exponential.
Remote collars won’t control hunting hounds and Fish and Wildlife should no longer be granted the entitled privilege of policing themselves.
Imports of beef from corrupt Paraguay threaten US agriculture.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday evening spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate about Israel, Palestine, and the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
Can Vermont Republicans take advantage?
School boards and superintendents suffer no penalties for poor job performance.
It’s our job as Vermonters to mitigate the effects of climate, whatever it is and whatever it will be, here at home. We can and should think global. We must act local.
In 1920, Winston Churchill blocked off three-quarters of Palestine for Arab settlement only. Just a quarter of the British mandate was left for Jewish settlement.
Public elementary schools have rapidly implemented “Comprehensive Sex Education” , which introduces children at a very young age to sex, gender identity, gender orientation, and more.
On Saturday, I asserted that Lee Morrigan, now a candidate for Burlington City Council, exploited a sensitive incident, embracing a complete victim identity.
As expected, things quickly went sideways. In the first year, overdose deaths rose 200 percent.
Jury finds glyphosate causes cancer.
Chittenden County is actively coddling violent criminals in defiance of state law, and law-abiding citizens are not safer as a result.
We can’t keep kicking the can down the road. We owe it to Vermonters to act now to ensure our State’s future is bright.
Israel’s Defense Forces will, in time, remove Hamas from Gaza, and then what? Three monumental issues must be addressed if this part of the world will ever see peace.
To quote Golda Meir; “We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.”
Age Strong VT focuses our attention on a wide range of things that we – the government and the independent sector – can do to enrich the lives of our growing percentage of seniors.
The “Make Big Oil Pay” hypocrisy.
As the BLM riots burned down my home city of Portland, Oregon, I had to find out what was going on with this group.
Let’s realize this for what it truly is: hogwash.
Counting up the real cost of virtue-car EVs.
Turns out that it is very easy to use AI for fact-checking. It can even be made to check its own assertions.
@pnshdvermonster wrote in apparent sarcasm, “Stop fear-mongering. Burlington is perfectly safe. These clearly have nothing to do with the rampant drug use and unhoused immigrants.”
The Public Utilities Commission rubs salt in the wound for struggling Vermonters just trying to stay warm.
These people have no shame.
Exposing the coordinated global effort to censor and propagandize public opinion against the right under the guise of human rights.
With nearly two decades of experience in government, Paul could only afford to give Burlingtonians more of the same decline.
But the top candidates shouldn’t participate in it any more.
A citizens’ group concerned about street crime gathered recently in Rutland, where city police are down three officers and prosecutors complain how their hands are tied.
The red flag law allows a judge to temporarily remove a gun from a person considered dangerous. It hasn’t reduced homicides – and if we’re honest, that was never the intent.
“We’ve spent more on the War on Poverty than all the military wars combined in the United States without any success,” says Rachel Sheffield.
With their favorite war cry of “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is Great,” resounding repeatedly, the murder of 1400 Israelis, 31 Americans in the October 7 genocide was chronicled online by the proud killers
Leniency undermines the rule of law and perpetuates a cycle of crime harmful to both perpetrator and victim alike. It is time for Vermont Legislators from all parties to stand up.
We may need to scrap the DSM and start over. As someone who has several family, friends and clients who struggle with mental illness I couldn’t agree more.
How all that happened was what we were never supposed to forget. But we are living and watching an alarmingly similar Nazi-like attitude develop today in America.
The State Agency of Housing and Community Development has not ignored the crisis. However, its solutions resemble placing one’s thumb in the dike.
Post-Soviet Estonia is awash in a spirit of freedom and independence. At last we are free! We can learn, create, build, trade, and make our country a prosperous democratic republic! AND THEY HAVE.
“We know that boys like this 14-year-old Black child are not inherently valued by a system and dominant culture that will determine the fate of his humanity,” the Rutland NAACP statement says.
Both Sanders and Welch voted to steal what little profits the USPS had and transfer them to the US Treasury to fund their own little unrelated projects.
We have witnessed not just the crime of the century, but the greatest crime ever perpetrated in human history, with those responsible yet to face criminal charges.
For a party that prides itself on progress, the Democrats’ approach is not only disingenuous, it’s abusive and anti-progress.
With revolving-door regulatory oversight for corporate profit now the obvious norm in America, who on earth would drink milk tainted with chemicals that synthetically alter how cows digest grass?
These kids were exposed to an F-bomb dropping llama, which is a lot more preferable to being isolated and restrained in a locked, padded closet covered in your own excrement for hours on end like the students in Fair Haven.
That which doesn’t kill the enemy makes him stronger.
Trouble is brewing abroad while our military recruiting struggles to fill its ranks.
Lawmakers get tunnel visioned in their climate strategies of choice to the point of ignoring other pressing concerns.
Now a host of — shall we call them “Democrat election deniers,” or would that be unfair? – are hurling allegations of absentee ballot fraud, and it looks like with pretty good reason
Another contender has entered the race to become Burlington’s next mayor, but it’s a rather uninspiring development.
If they ban hunting, people will be less likely to find the bodies.
Renewable Energy Standard committee keeps the truth to themselves about favoring special interests, despite concerns and the impacts of their legislation.
What incentive do companies have to keep the carbon sequestered or monitored? What is to prevent companies from discharging toxic waste as effluent?
Murdering and decapitating 1400 innocent Israelis is not resistance, but a war crime against a tribe that the world has historically treated abysmally.
There is a pattern to the destruction of independent farms and food production. Federal and state rules coupled with subsidies that favor large enterprises farming monocultures have worn down small farms.
It’s vitally important to understand what’s really going on in the Middle East because what we see there today will be here tomorrow.
August 25 Speaker Krowinski made it clear that she and her House supermajority want little to do with driving up energy prices paid by Vermonters to defeat climate change.
EdTech Surveillance is driven by profit, not student safety. States must act to protect their students while they still can.
The public looks to law enforcement for its safety. Well, that safety net has been torn apart. What is worse is that no one has the courage to fix it.
Even if Upside Foods and other meat-dreamers could manufacture steaks and burgers better than God has done in cows, their factory technology would still require chemicals and fossil fuels that degrade the soil and water.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For some states, no amount of federal dollars is worth denying parental rights.
Academics across America are praising the vicious attack on Israel.
If the law isn’t going to protect people, then people are going to protect themselves, a former Vermont police chief warns.
It’s sad that the once principled ACLU has come to this state, but if you want to defend the WHOLE Bill or Rights you’re going to have to keep looking for a home.
If Israel is out of the picture, the full attention of their enemies, our enemies, will become laser focused on attacking America. To think otherwise is naive.
Two bills are under consideration by Vermont’s Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules (LCAR) that will have a substantial impact on Vermonters’ hunting and trapping liberties.
We all want to see the ecological systems of our state thrive. I am certain that we will not achieve this common goal by being cruel to one another.
Former Rep. Dave Sharpe (D-Bristol) just penned a truly execrable op-ed blaming private schools, lack of funding for public schools, and 60s era “white-flight” for the growing school performance gap
Perhaps the council will now act proactively and appropriately. Or maybe it’s too late and this has all become terminal.
It’s doubtful children riding on Wi-Fi equipped buses will work on homework. It’s certain that pediatricians are concerned about exposure to increased wireless radiation.
No-one should miss more than five minutes of class to quickly, privately access a tampon.
DPS poll/focus groups will be spun the other way, but this is what people said.
A bagel shop in Burlington is advertising for new hires at $25 per hour — about $5 more than the state’s Weatherization Assistance Program insulation installers are now paid.
There is a path to deal with what is happening in the world regarding the climate. It should be addressed without hypocrisy. We can start here in Vermont.
Even after an autistic artist said she would kill herself, transgender activists continued social media attacks.
The sheer scale of terror and violence of this unprovoked attack against the Jewish state’s populace far outweighs the repeated rounds of internecine fighting between Hamas and the IDF.
Loving your lawn comes with an expensive but unseen cost.
The fervor that once surrounded the Russo-Ukrainian War is growing stale and going out of style.
Winners: major donors to the Democrat and Progressive parties and their candidates. Losers: those who may supply better, cheaper, more reliable electricity but don’t support those politicians.
I question the whole ‘climate change’ narrative. That makes me subject to name calling…
Raising animals develops its own range of instinctual triggers.
The House, with Republicans theoretically in charge, looks more like a bunch of second-graders in a sandbox than a house of Congress.
Hopefully the continued failure of offshore wind projects is enough to save the whales from the self-proclaimed environmentalists.
Propagandists have their techniques down to a science.
Our most widely read/viewed news outlets are more concerned with protecting a politically powerful special interest than they are about informing the public.
It will help with both social mobility and inequality. It must be taught aggressively and used to its fullest, not banned in the classroom.
If you’ve been searching for an explanation for the persistence of poverty in one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, look no further.
When Senator Dick McCormack called S.5/Act 18 a Rube Goldberg contraption, he was underselling what a mess the whole thing is.
What choice do we have? Our time is getting short. We all need to be climate activists now.
