H.827 would send the wealthy out of the State, robbing it of tax revenue and economic boons.
Keelan: Dear wealthy, please don’t go
Warner: Scott endorses Haley after divisive speech
“In my opinion there is no one less equipped no more incapable of healing this divide than Donald Trump. He’s made a career of throwing fuel on the fire of hate and anger,” Scott said.
MacDonald: Slippery meet slope
Doctors recommend assisted suicide to woman paralyzed by COVID jab.
Roper: Vermont’s education property tax system is not broken
Squeezing the taxpayer dry is what it’s designed to do, and it’s working.
Vote no on school budgets ’til 87% Solution kicks in
Our schools are literally out of our control. But there is a solution.
Antley/Catapano-Friedman: Moving backwards on cannabis
Dispensaries ensure safety of customers, kids in ways retail shops can’t…or won’t.
Warner: Hartford has an activist problem – now they know about it
If it’s hateful to warn a tiny Vermont town to take a closer look at the source of its sudden social problems and rising incompetence at the local government level then I plead guilty.
Klar: Beef prices just jumped over the Moon: here’s why
A few pennies along the way to the market equal bloated food budgets in 2024.
Despathy: An overdue thank you to those who hunt coyotes with dogs
If coyote hunting with dogs is banned, humans, pets, homes and livestock will be at increased risk from roaming coyotes who know no boundaries and have no reason to fear humans and dogs.
Thurston: Adding insult to insanity
The dark side of H.289, 100% renewable electricity by 2030: when all else fails, Dem’s resort to renewables-shaming
Roper: So, it’s okay to poison the children now?
Or was the PCB scare just a scam that got out of control?
LaMarche: In Burlington’s mayoral race, money talks loudest
In a few days, one will win. But in three years time, will you tolerate another fabricated pair?
Evslin: Three toxic phrases
“Progressive” buzz-phrases prove ever more Regressive.
Warner: Mid-Vermont girls team headed to championship despite legal battles
This a year after they made international headlines for taking a principled stand against playing a school boasting a biological male athlete, identifying as “trans”, standing nearly 6’3” tall.
Huff: Local school boards “in a pickle”
Legislators became drunk on Federal Covid dollars and are desperate for the binge to continue leaving the hangover headache for constituents to deal with.
Harrison: Difficult choices
If seniors on social security are expected to get by with the 3.2% cost of living adjustment this year, our state government should be able to do the same.
Pelham: It’s okay to vote no on school budgets
Vote no on school budgets and deliver the message that the current entangled and costly system is not OK.
Dawson: Remote work in Vermont is here to stay
As the shift in working arrangements continues to reshape workers’ lives and the economy, Vermont looks likely to become a popular primary residence for many.
Johnson: Is America a Christian country?
First of all, let me tell you: Joe Biden is as much as a Catholic as Elizabeth Warren is a Native American.
Vogel: UVM’s remarkable turnaround has improved life for Jewish students
From first in the nation to best in class
Keelan: The media’s two Vermonts
The Vermont scenes, as depicted in Vermont Magazine and other tourist outlets, are being usurped, and our Legislative leaders need to stop their denial until the scourge is eradicated.
Sibilia: The Consolidated Communications transition and the future of rural landlines in Vermont
Let’s work together to make sure all Vermonters, especially those in rural areas, have their voices heard in this process, ensuring a smooth transition for our communication services.
Klar: More cows needed to reverse climate change, experts say
Scientists are speaking up for beef.
LaMarche: Lavish spending, lackluster results
Vermont’s K-12 system is broken.
Bufka: Washington’s 1796 farewell address
There is much more wisdom to be found here. It is a powerful tonic just to follow his words, to drink in the clarity of his thought and vision.
Gorsline: In support of S.258
Contrary to what biologists at Vermont Fish & Wildlife, and some hunters may say, coyotes and other predators don’t explode in population if they’re not aggressively removed.
Roper: Pay no attention to that billion dollar price tag!
House Ways & Means Chair admonishes committee not to consider massive cost of Renewable Energy bill to ratepayers.
Kenyon: Creating a crisis
The MO of Democrats’ governing
Dawson: Meeting VT EV mandates in a high-end market
Sales tips for selling luxury EVs to Vermonters.
Roper: Already the State can’t afford the clean heat standard
No funding to pay people to design the program, let alone run it!
Bill depriving parents of vax consent breaks federal law, Senate Health & Welfare told
A proposed state law allowing child vaccination without parental consent violates Federal law, a Washington, D.C. law firm has notified a Vermont Senate committee.
Keelan: A rare species, the Primary Care Doctor
Searching for a primary care doctor in SW VT has taken on the same level of anxiety as finding a plumber, electrician, carpenter, or car mechanic.
Malloy: It is an exciting time to be a Republican!
So we are moving in the right direction, but we absolutely cannot let up. Vermont and Vermonters, literally, cannot afford another two years of the Democrat/Progressive supermajority.
Roper: Bad information leads to bad policy
But Vermont lawmakers routinely seek out bad information if it confirms their bias.
LaMarche: Our city’s “Big Lie”
Will the truth be accepted? Or will there be a total, visceral rejection of it?
Despathy: BTW Vermonters -You are all a bunch of NIMBYs
Renewable Energy Vermont, Sen. White, and industry lawyers like Wilschek are determined to clear the path for their profit-driven renewable energy projects, including removing us “NIMBY” Vermonters.
Smith: Renewable power industry exploits poorest towns
Sen. White has turned this situation upside down. Aesthetics has nothing to do with it. Poor towns have been targeted because they are vulnerable to monetary promises.
Gervais: Arlington selectboard needs a fresh voice
In Arlington, there has been much blame cast about following the issuing of property tax bills with a staggering increase in the town tax rate this past September.
Baker: Someday this will be funny, hopefully
Biden administration deems its detractors, Conservatives “vulnerable to disinformation methods”.
Roper: “Solution” to high property taxes is… more higher taxes!
Dems looking at higher sales taxes, sweetened beverage tax, food & clothing tax, cloud tax…
LaMarche: On housing, Shannon fails
Plugging your nose to avoid a bad stench doesn’t work.
Fireovid: Act 250 reform bill gaslighting?
This bill—just like the emperor—has no clothes. It won’t do much to solve the housing problem, or to help the homeless or even most Vermonters. It’s corporate cronyism.
Keelan: Will Vermont continue to be a going concern?
Presently, significant matters must be dealt with within the State government simultaneously; each carries financial implications.
Roper: Legislature logic: Ban flavored tobacco, but not flavored pot, and legalize meth
Seriously, are these people high themselves?
Huff: Lipstick on a bloated pig
Vermont is rapidly becoming unaffordable for even the middle class. More spending and more subsidies is not the answer. If you find yourself trapped in the bottom of a deep hole, STOP DIGGING!
Klar: New ‘study’ extolling greenie redistribution unwittingly exposes toxic climate cult
The ugly head of eco-Marxism.
Klar: Shockwaves coming from the commercial real estate crisis
Taxes, inflation, vacancies, and shoplifting becoming too hard to bear.
Bossange: The high cost of not developing low-income housing
We need to accept the reality that 71,500 Vermonters live in poverty, with too many now homelessness. All Vermonters need a place to call home. Either we pay now or we pay more later.
MacDonald: Democrats drove the Putney Paper Mill out of business
Every industry in the state except for the government is at risk; according to USA Facts, the government is the biggest business in Vermont and is only likely to get bigger.
Roper: The Mafia-style corruption in the Clean Heat Standard
Lawmakers to give cronies literal license to steal.
Baker: Shots fired, cops called, no-one came
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.
Fireovid: Legislature considers Defend the Guard Act
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
McCormick: Weatherization crews deserve our respect
The General Assembly (G.A.) cannot enforce us to abandon our cars or oil heaters.
Harrison: Budget and barb
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.
Roper: Clean Heat Standard exploding on the launch pad
A perfect storm of legislative incompetence and bureaucratic bumbling.
Warner: At Hartford selectboard, views exchanged over Drag Story Hour
Several Hartford residents chided Selectboard Member Lannie Collins for his statement made regarding Drag Queen Story Hour.
McEnany: In memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
Fernandez: October 7, or what’s behind Israel’s 9/11?
October 7th was about Arabs taking Palestine back by force and moving it back into the House of Islam, or Dar Al Islam.
Brennan: It’s time for Vermont lawmakers to put flavor bans to rest
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.
Roper: Get ready for $800 million in higher electric costs, just cuz
More ideological virtue signaling with other people’s money.
Klar: A tale of two billionaire farmers
What Mark Zuckerberg’s cows tell us.
Green: Crime and Concerns in Morristown
Morristown held its second community Crime and Concerns meeting at the People’s Academy auditorium this past Monday night.
Despathy: Moving past the covid hysteria, settling back into the science
As the censorship stranglehold loosens, risks, impacts and new findings related to covid injections are surfacing.
Gorman: Energy industry bill disenfranchises Vermonters
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.
Stack: Vermont’s education-budget sausage grinding continues
The Act 127 & 173 Follies!
Wilson: VPIRG wants Climate Superfund to pay for U.N. agenda
Everything runs on oil products – right or wrong – and no one can change the whole world.
Keelan: Requirements to become a town treasurer: not much
Your local licensed barber has far greater required qualifications.
Eshelman: School closing bill the point of the tyrannical spear
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.
Roper: The last Democrat pay raise bill was greedy. This one’s also corrupt.
“Poverty for thee, but not for me!”
MacDonald: NH seeks to ban cloud seeding and other atmospheric geoengineering
If we lack any sense of transparency, limits, or regulation, we might find ourselves subject to man-caused atmospheric effects without knowledge of recourse.
Paul: Lessons from the Great Covid Cover-up
We the American people must not allow bureaucratic “experts” to endanger our lives, lie to us, or curtail our constitutional rights. Never again.
Ryan: Socrates and the failure of democracy
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.
Thayer: No such thing as a “safe injection site”
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?
Roper: My constituents want school choice and must be stopped!
Rep. Laura Sibilia introduces legislation intentionally opposed to her constituents’ interests.
Evslin: A cease fire in Gaza will not make Hamas go away
It’s like ending crime by defunding the police.
Frenier: The limits of intersectionality
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.
Despathy: Supermajority bills usurp parent rights over healthcare, local control of energy, schools
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.”
Ehlers: Why does the Colchester Selectboard hate canaries (and clean water)?
Malletts Bay – proclaimed the Jewel of Lake Champlain – is degrading faster than any other section of lake, and it is because of development.
Rep. Jim Harrison: Making a point about legislative pay?
Pay the governor the same as legislators? Some Dem lawmakers are trying to make a point.
Warner: VT GOP – call me crazy, but….
If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. (Galatians 5:15)
Roper: Stop forcing EVs down our throats
Soviet-style central planning does not work!
Klar: Is a nuclear renaissance on the horizon?
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.
LaMarche: The misspent millions
This crisis is solvable. But state leaders’ proclivity for short-term, wasteful solutions, hinders effective and lasting change.
Wilson: Europe, America, Vermont falling to globalist U.N. agenda
This all seems like we are paying for our own destruction.
Eshelman: Traditional public school vs. tuitioned school choice
With School Choice Tuitioning there is a choice. In a monopolized traditional public-school format, parents get what they get.
Cole: Against unlimited government
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.
Roper: House Democrats pass BYOD State Supported drug dens
Despite being Federally illegal: Bring your own drugs! What could go wrong?
MacDonald: Vermont Surpasses 2022, With 27 Homicides in 2023
Only half of the homicides were gun crimes, a fact lawmakers choose to ignore.
Keelan: Efficiency Vermont just keeps growing
Efficiency Vermont is not different than most Vermont nonprofits that are, in effect, quasi-state agencies. They have substantial mission creep.
Klar: New York law attacks religious freedom
Chick-fil-A is targeted for its faith yet again.
Bean: The Year of the Floods and Geoengineering
It’s becoming more clear to me that Vermont is not the main target at all, but rather high leverage, political, collateral damage.
Evslin: How not to control disease
Overstrict rules are counterproductive
McClaughry: Civil society
What is less likely to make news are act of kindness, generosity, good Samaritans, people stepping in to help those who have suffered misfortunes.
Silverstein: Selection bias, a trojan horse and a Don Tinney proposal: a financially toxic threesome
Failure to review and reflect on the entirety of all relevant information almost guarantees that the conclusions drawn will be neither justified nor reliable.
LaMarche: An affection for injection
“Safe injection” sites are coming to a community near you.
Zupan: McClaughry is a treasure that will be missed
John McClaughry would be deemed a national treasure if Vermont had not claimed him first.
McGuinness: How much will Article 22 cost Vermonters?
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.
Klar: Who trusts the WHO?
A story of global bureaucratic incompetence.
Miro: Vermont should follow Burlington’s lead
Burlington’s outgoing Mayor lists what he’d like to see Vermont do for energy affordability and climate,
Roper: VT Democrats open 2024 session with 10% income tax hike
Now it’s in the House, and you have a chance to let your Representatives know what you think about all this. Please do!
