The Vermont Democratic Party has decided not to send established figures like Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Instead, they are sending a group of very young delegates that includes a host of next-generation political activists.
The religious test is not a fluke. It is evidence that the patients are running the asylum. You can see the results. Higher taxes. Declining services. Dumber students. Increased lawlessness. Drug crimes. Drug deaths. And the only answer the inmates can think of is for you to give them more money and power.
Plain and simple, the supermajority chose REV and VPIRG, special interest groups, and their high cost, impulsive Renewable Energy Standard.
The RES Series, Part II: The advice of Annette Smith, Executive Director, Vermonters for a Clean Environment (VCE).
With iSun filing for bankruptcy, one might wonder if legislators will think twice about overriding the Governor’s veto of H.289.
Mayor Stanak is knowingly eliciting another eventual confrontation and dispersant of at least one if not many, encampments.
The RES Series Part I: The interests of renewable energy industrialists versus those of Vermont and the the environment.
To celebrate BTL’s 150th post, cast your vote for who made the biggest ass of themselves in the 2023-4 legislative session.
Black voices about Christian America.
There’s a real chance President Trump is convicted of felony charges and sentenced to prison. Bluntly, that’s part of why I’m supporting him. I believe our justice system is being weaponized against him.
How is it that our legislature is passing bills that will double your home heating and electric bills when so many Vermonters are struggling to make ends meet?
Unlike Vermont, their legislators spend taxpayer money wisely.
The trans-justice case against Trump.
The full legislature will return to Montpelier on June 17 to take up any bills the Governor has vetoed.
This gem from Gemma: “My electric bill [plus rent increase] could go up ninety dollars a month…. Now I’m willing to pay a little bit more if it means a cleaner environment. But the reality is I don’t want to pay THAT much more.”
Forget about birds, bees, bats and bears. All public policy must be laser focused on reducing carbon emissions, no matter the cost.
What has evolved is the building of ‘silos’ by NGOs and the avoidance of collaboration.
Scientific inquiry jeopardized by ideological taint
There’s a compelling reason that even the most progressive states can’t generate any momentum for taxing unrealized gains: it’s pure guesswork.
The environmental costs of food production. Biden’s “Social Justice” undermines food supplies
What has the legislature done?
Mostly about productivity
Lifelong Dem says his old party taken over by Progressives/ Socialists.
Current and future students, faculty, staff, and the greater community are left to grapple with the appallingly bad decisions that are being forced upon them.
Aid illegal Palestine protests, lose tax exemption
When it comes to energy affordability, 2024 may be the year Vermonters look back on as the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Many of these impressionable imps of ignorance hide their entities behind keffiyehs and hijabs, but remain oblivious to this conflict’s facts.
Vermonters hold legitimate fears and anxiety about the decisions made by our Democratic supermajority.
Somehow it is OK when their former equity contractor, now mayor, who ran on equity, defunds the very equity initiatives they fought for.
by Aaron Warner Christopher Rufo has emerged as one of the most strident opponents to woke culture. Raised by a family who embraced communist ideology, Rufo broke from his family’s way of […]
Hiring increases reported for first time since 2020.
Will national mea culpas from Uri Berliner and Nellie Bowles be followed by anyone at, say, VTDigger?
It is clear to me that offshore is not as steady as the pro-wind rhetoric would have you believe.
In layman’s terms, the Fed is going to keep the financial heroin in the system.
No public show up; person hired to explain the program admits he doesn’t understand it; reveals chaos behind the scenes.
Vermont is a culture of individualism, not government dependency; farming, not commuting; free speech, not stifling autocracy; of seeing all people as equal.
The Biden administration used the FACE Act to prosecute her for supposedly blocking access to abortion.
While still in the design phase at the Public Utilities Commission, the economic devastation of Act 18 is already hitting home for small fuel dealers.
Washington, wake up. History should have taught us, particularly the history of the 1930s, the cost of waiting, of vacillating.
Snooping in the area close to the home, which courts call the “curtilage,” is flatly forbidden by the federal constitution.
As a well-funded, big-name headliner, Howard Dean will force Phil Scott to campaign. For real.
While I may have lost the adjournment pool, it is a very safe bet there will be gubernatorial vetoes over the next several weeks.
H.766 will add estimated 3-7% increase on top of “normal” annual premium increases.
Vermont lawmakers do not have the constitutional upper hand under Prop 4. Taxpayers can anticipate footing the bill for the State’s defense against anyone who dares to challenge them, if Proposition 4 is approved by voters in 2026.
How Dean betrayed our first inhabitants, and the Republican who fought for them.
Vermonters will continue to pay for a mirage that promises effective climate change legislation but yields no discernible results.
A backfired effort to cancel John Mead.
Not only will Vermont need to front its own legal costs and hire various experts to back up its claims, but the State could also be on the hook for the defendants’ legal bills if it loses the case on constitutional grounds.
Years later, the town, more woke than ever, has achieved a different kind of dome, one that protects exorbitant public school spending at great expense.
This week Vermont Senate passed the Renewable Energy Standard bill (H.289) by a vote of 18-8.
Here’s the rub – no advocate for Proposal 4 has actually furthered a need for the legislative change aside from a feel-good virtue-signal.
Rep. Michael Mrowicki, who declined to accept a written copy of VFA’s testimony, stated that public libraries are sacred institutions. VFA told the Committee that families are sacred institutions that no individual, organization, or government entity has a right to undermine.
The FIrst Amendment reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” Does HR 6090 violate that right?
Hunters have been the primary force for conservation since it’s inception in the US.
Misinformation is a threat to our democracy, both nationally and as a state. At least here, being fact-based and credible is important to the bulk of advocates,
State leaders aren’t acknowledging their role exacerbating these challenges while also repeatedly making expenditures out of the education fund without paying.
It was neatly summed up by TAG member Christopher Trombly’s revelation, “We’re taxing the poor so that the rich can benefit.”
Sure, in the end, my son will probably vote for Biden. But he is not happy about it. Neither are thousands in his generation who have lost faith in the system and no longer care about defending the institutions of democracy.
“Natural disasters don’t discriminate. Neither should USDA.”
Ten years of being priced out of our own state by legislators who want to be “good stewards of the planet.”
There is no better candidate to represent the Democratic Party than Howard Dean. Both have undergone an incredible transformation that leaves them barely recognizable from the 1990s.
The antisemitic, pro-Hamas movement looks a lot like the KKK of the 1920s.
You can only self govern, if you maintain that structure of governance that allows it!
The Vermont legislature is playing an expensive shell game… and planning worse. The “equalized pupil” is the shell under which the pea is hidden.
I have noticed that the phrase “conspiracy theory” often stops people from thinking and asking questions.
Settle into a bumpy ride to scheduled May 10 adjournment.
The intangible loss resulting from the closing of institutions is not a vacant building(s) but the loss of a place. Even town meeting attendance is down.
Instead of dumping $30-$50 million every few months…
The crime of the century?
How social media and online news algorithms fuel extremism across the political spectrum
Reflections on 30, growing up with, and out of, politics.
Rod Coronado of Orange boasts about his work ‘monitoring’ coyote hunters. One of those hunters said he saw Coronado in the woods.
“Real science” is proving it.
At that 1985 Burlington Town Hall meeting, Chomsky accused Israel of being the “surrogate” assassin for the US and carrying out mass killings in “Africa, Asia, and primarily Latin America.”
So, leftist legislators are, of course, trying to shut them down.
What I teach at Christian School….. and why.
Vermonters don’t want to pay more to heat and cool their homes, but that’s what this does if they can figure a way to make it work, which is not a bad thing.
The bottom line is that if we want housing to be affordable, wages must increase so people can purchase ever more expensive houses made from scarce resources.
Vermonters worried we are about to be taxed out of our homes come July are now being told not to expect any sort of relief for at least three years while they study the issue. News flash: we can’t afford the bill this year! Fix your mess now.
Internal documents reveal that gender-affirming care “will go down as one of the worst medical scandals in history.”
In its search for new revenue, Vermont has become desperate for financial resources. What a terrible state of affairs, and it is only becoming more dire.
Those who want to “Get Real” need to walk across the aisle and help the Left see that they are living and promoting untruths.
A Study of informed consent for minors.
(Originally published at True North Reports on December 1, 2021.)
Nearly a year after passage the most basic concepts around “the plan” remain unaddressed.
A quick look at the Internet provides ample evidence a lot of people in Vermont and around the country don’t have a place to live or enough food to eat.
The House Ways & Means Committee proposed significant changes to Vermont’s education financing system, incl. limits on
future school budget increases.
Teams of humans and AI agents will be the model for the organization of the future.
Even more concerning for Vermont is the research showing the negative relationship between income tax rates and gross domestic product.
Bernie Sanders, like so many of his blue-hued fans, is blinded by Hamas’ heavyweight winning propaganda war against the featherweight of political fiction, Israel.
Like Icarus consumed by arrogance, our elected representatives are heedless of the warnings, are taking us too close to the sun.
Mission Creep: Proposed EPA rule shuts down small meat producers
Vermont’s Prop 4 represents a failed opportunity to truly move the needle in advancing justice and liberty for all.
The bizarre testimony of the Renewable Energy Vermont executive director.
The most consequential falsehood in American public policy today is the idea that any racial disparity in any institution is the result of racial discrimination
Consumers and local governments must bow to more government overreach.
Vermont must invest to end our housing crisis.
We believe the people of Vermont will see what we saw, which is a smart, authentic, thoughtful leader who is genuinely excited about helping Vermont kids – our kids, and her own – get the best possible education.
Our Constitution is leaning more to the Left… “Right to collectively bargain” would exacerbate our public pension crisis, tax crisis, and job flight.
G.E.T. R.E.A.L. is a solemn promise and a positive path forward for our state by Vermont Republicans focused on improving the quality of life of our people.
The era of “equal time” in the media is long gone.
