The supermajority Democratic legislature confronts a popular Republican governor. Consider this combination of facts…

The state will automatically deduct 5 percent of said employees’ paychecks (increasing to 8 percent over time), putting the money into that account – without the employees’ consent!

The more outrageous and destructive an idea might be, the more it is embraced.

I don’t need my preschool grandchildren, great grandchildren, or grand nieces and nephews receiving any sort of curriculum across the gender and sexuality spectrum.

Technocracy is rule by an elite of ‘technical experts.’ It’s happening right now, in Vermont.

Unfortunately, odds are it won’t be.

The Vermont Democratic party of twenty years ago might have considered a Kevin McCarthy-like compromise.  But many worry that Vermont Democrats of today left that orbit a long time ago.

Part of the problem regarding embezzlement, especially here in Vermont, is the trust we place in those accountable for the funds of the state’s 6,000-plus nonprofit entities.

We elect representatives to, as the title suggests, to “represent” us. Not to disregard us.

The Governor and his administration have been asked repeatedly to present a plan to transition people from the motel program into other housing. There has been no plan presented by the Executive Branch.

Peterson “voted NO because the FY2024 budget burdens Vermont taxpayers with far too many raised taxes and fees.”

Expanded federal powers over food under the Commerce Clause have too often favored large corporate interests over local and individual liberties. That is surely not what the founding fathers intended.

In this article, I will distill global and national efforts that set up what we are seeing in Vermont and how these efforts lean towards grooming of our precious children at a very young age.

A considered response to “Rohit Sharma: Trapping is not a management tool. Let nature take its course.” published in VT Digger.

The one clear fact is that Vermont cannot forever spend millions of dollars a month supporting a homeless population, that doesn’t care to do anything in return.

Vermont Bill H-386 is seeking to reduce the Vermont Constitutional Requirements of the voting age in Brattleboro.

One interest group fared extraordinarily well during the just-completed legislative session. That’s the interest group comprised of Representatives and Senators.

Mostly the childcare bill just costs too much. But it also intrudes Big Government into a sphere of life best handled by small business and families.

You did not explicitly say you would do these things when you ran your political campaigns. We Vermonters were not marching in the streets demanding that you do these things to us.

Ensuring a sustainable, realistic budget wisely appropriated for the good of all must be a primary goal. This did not happen this session.

Vermont wouldn’t be Vermont without Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys militia.

Vermont already has a two-cent excise tax on heating oil, kerosene and dyed diesel. It raises about $5 million per year. So, a per gallon surcharge on home heating fuels would have to raise about sixty times that amount to pay for the Clean Heat Standard mandates, or $1.20 per gallon. That’s just math, folks!

While listening to Committee testimony and Floor readings on H.89 and S.37, I heard witnesses and legislators toss the words “evidence-based” like pizza dough, except there was no crust.

This program is extremely expensive and extremely regressive. It will cause a lot of pain for Vermont’s most vulnerable citizens, and will achieve exactly NOTHING in regard to solving Global Warming.

When I emigrated to this country, at age 27, I spoke French as my mother tongue and Dutch as a second language. I knew a few medical terms in English but was unable to order my groceries at the store.

Reporting of side effects isn’t required under Vermont’s “ostrich-head-in-the-sand” aid-in-dying law.

Census data shows blue states losing people and income to red states.

Democrat rule has placed Vermont in hospice while we wait for it to die like every other Democrat-run hell-hole in America.

A key lawmaker admits S.5 won’t do much to reduce global carbon emissions. So why does she still support it?

Governor Scott often is the voice of forgotten Vermonters and has become the conscience of the state.

Those that heat with wood, electricity, or natural gas receive special treatment and become a protected class in S.5 while continuing to pour carbon into the atmosphere.

In plain English, if you believe you are unfairly or extralegally regulated by a Federal agency, you now have a constitutional right to have that dispute settled by an independent third party judge

Promise that “nothing would move forward without affirmative action by the future legislature,” is shown to be very, very false.

As many of you were yesterday upon hearing Fox News Network was “parting ways” with Tucker Carlson, the shock was sudden but the surprise was short-lived.

Artificial intelligence is the same kind of challenge to the (over-) educated class that globalization was to those without a college degree.

The Clean Heat Standard bill (S.5) is designed to shield the law from the charge of being a carbon tax – although it will have precisely the same effect on consumers.

If current legislation passes, more dairy farms will go under, landlords will continue to raise rents, energy, health care and transportation costs will rise,. We will see more lawsuits against the State of Vermont and a doubled salary increase for the legislators.

We must address the regulatory barriers that exist on the local and state level, including reducing the barriers to environmentally thoughtful development that have been caused by Act 250.

When this year’s significant housing bill, S.100, arrived at the House’s Committee on Housing, many of the members were looking forward to conducting thoughtful legislation to collaborate and make it possible to increase the housing stock in our state.

Columnist George Will will speak at the Ethan Allen Institute dinner May 31. What would his speech sound like if written by ChatGPT? Could you tell the difference?

H.230 specifically targets the LGBTQ+ community for gun control, in the name of suicide prevention.

According to the Tax Foundation, in 2022 Vermont already had the 4th highest state and local tax burden in the country at 13.6 percent. But, oh, wait till next year!  

I have grave concerns that Vermonters cannot sustain the nearly one-half billion dollar increase in spending over the next two years.