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.
Klar: Saudi water battle in Arizona
A prelude to future resource conflicts?
Roper: VT Climate Council can’t decide which gas/diesel tax it likes best
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?
McClaughry: China’s nuclear leadership
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.
McClaughry: Vermont’s continuing battle to defeat the menace of climate change
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.
Fernandez: Do Israeli and Palestinian schools teach hate?
Palestinian authority textbooks contain incendiary statements about Jews and Israel.
Dame: A new direction for natural disasters
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: DeJoy is failing rural communities
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.
LaMarche: The trouble with the “Truth”
I suspect some want this to be a hate crime to fit prevailing divisive narratives, but the investigation will continue on.
Stahler: Why should we bail out Burlington?
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.
Covey: Hunters and trappers critical to wildlife protection
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.
Warner: Knowing the Christ of Christmas
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.
Roper: Shock poll (NOT)! Vermonters don’t want to pay ANYTHING for Democrats’ climate agenda
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.
Evslin: Free Speech should still be protected
But the protection can’t be selective.
Staats: Tolerance should extend to hunting, trapping culture
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.
Roper: Former Democrat Speaker of the House named president of state’s most prominent news outlet
VTDigger no longer bothering to hide the bias! Gaye Symington is made the new president of the organization.
Kinsley: Vermonters concerned about housing, public safety, cost of living
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.
Eshelman: Half of Bellows Falls freshman class is reading at first grade level
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.
Wilson: The killing of Vermont
We don’t have a “Climate Emergency”, we have an Education Emergency and common- sense problem.
MacDonald: So, Vermont discriminates against its college students, too?
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.
Roper: An 18-percent property tax increase will not fix unsafe, underperforming public schools
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.
Sibilia: About the December 1 Tax Letter…
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.
Stone: The alleged Obama White House counter-operation to crush Populism
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.
Roper: Report: Clean Heat Standard is “not cost effective”
Even when the books are cooked, the numbers still don’t add up. And our virtue-signaling lawmakers know it.
McClaughry: Legislative preview for 2024
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.
LaMarche: Burlington’s Tacky Trio
If these are the best ideas that Burlingtonians can get from their next mayor, we are really screwed.
Keelan: Vermont towns must merge
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.
Stevenson: Hounders and control of hounds
Remote collars won’t control hunting hounds and Fish and Wildlife should no longer be granted the entitled privilege of policing themselves.
Klar: Biden beef deal risks foot and mouth disease
Imports of beef from corrupt Paraguay threaten US agriculture.
Sanders: Floor speech on Gaza and the Israeli-Hamas War
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.
Roper: Poll shows Dem/Prog supermajority super out of touch
Can Vermont Republicans take advantage?
Wilson: Vermont public schools charge $23,856/student, produce worst-ever test scores
School boards and superintendents suffer no penalties for poor job performance.
Evslin: Spend $$ on climate adaptation, not carbon reduction
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.
Fernandez: History shows Jordan IS Palestine
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.
Klar: Navigating the cultural storm
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.
LaMarche: Asst. AG calls out Lee Morrigan
On Saturday, I asserted that Lee Morrigan, now a candidate for Burlington City Council, exploited a sensitive incident, embracing a complete victim identity.
MacDonald: Oregon legalized hard drugs and it went about as well as you’d expect
As expected, things quickly went sideways. In the first year, overdose deaths rose 200 percent.
Klar: High Stakes Dispute Over Roundup Weed Killer
Jury finds glyphosate causes cancer.
Bradley: Legislators make gun laws Chittenden County ignores
Chittenden County is actively coddling violent criminals in defiance of state law, and law-abiding citizens are not safer as a result.
Kurrle & Samuelson: Time to walk the walk about Housing Crisis
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.
Keelan: Can peace ever be achieved?
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.
Moore: Burlington Shabbat rally provokes thoughts on Zionism
To quote Golda Meir; “We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.”
McClaughry: Age Strong VT
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.
Despathy: VPIRG is not Vermont’s voice
The “Make Big Oil Pay” hypocrisy.
BLM the Greatest Lie Ever Sold, resident tells selectboard
As the BLM riots burned down my home city of Portland, Oregon, I had to find out what was going on with this group.
LaMarche: Pronoun activist is Burlington’s latest political acrobat
Let’s realize this for what it truly is: hogwash.
Klar: New study suggests EVs are regressive
Counting up the real cost of virtue-car EVs.
Evslin: AI can help deal with misinformation
Turns out that it is very easy to use AI for fact-checking. It can even be made to check its own assertions.
Frustration with Burlington shootings, theft boils over online
@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.”
Roper: How to pay for administering the carbon tax on home heating fuels? With an excise tax on home heating fuels!
The Public Utilities Commission rubs salt in the wound for struggling Vermonters just trying to stay warm.
Roper: How to pay for administering the Carbon Tax on home heating fuels? With an Excise Tax on home heating fuels!
These people have no shame.
Stone: The ongoing censorship of Conservatives and Republicans
Exposing the coordinated global effort to censor and propagandize public opinion against the right under the guise of human rights.
LaMarche: Karen Paul’s stagnant schemes
With nearly two decades of experience in government, Paul could only afford to give Burlingtonians more of the same decline.
Roper: NBC’s GOP debate was actually pretty good
But the top candidates shouldn’t participate in it any more.
McClaughry: Guardian Angels for Rutland?
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.
Grok: Amid rising homicides, Vermont says its Red Flag Law is model for the nation
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.
Stossel: How did all these ‘hungry’ people get so fat?
“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.
Fernandez: HAMAS and social media
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
Gillam: Law enforcement needs strong legislative leadership
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.
Warner: Mental health’s DSM: Science or Scientology?
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.
Roper: The Hamas/Israeli conflict exposed a horrible flaw in how we’re educating our own kids
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.
Keelan: New housing by publicity never works
The State Agency of Housing and Community Development has not ignored the crisis. However, its solutions resemble placing one’s thumb in the dike.
McClaughry: Estonia a model for Vermont?
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.
NAACP: Youth brains not fully developed, don’t try 14-year-old as adult
“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.
Mail handler: Sanders, Welch, Balint postal demands show disconnect with reality
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.
Expert’s video shows Covid crimes against Americans
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.
LaMarche: The big scary MAGA myth
For a party that prides itself on progress, the Democrats’ approach is not only disingenuous, it’s abusive and anti-progress.
Klar: Milking cows for methane
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?
VT public schools: Where talking llamas teach kids the “F” word
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.
Evslin: “Proportionate Response” encourages escalation
That which doesn’t kill the enemy makes him stronger.
McClaughry: Military recruiting
Trouble is brewing abroad while our military recruiting struggles to fill its ranks.
Kinsley: Let’s not lose our heads
Lawmakers get tunnel visioned in their climate strategies of choice to the point of ignoring other pressing concerns.
Roper: Absentee ballot fraud is real! (when it happens to a Democrat…)
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
LaMarche: Karen Paul: Savior or Saboteur?
Another contender has entered the race to become Burlington’s next mayor, but it’s a rather uninspiring development.
MacDonald: Is Vermont becoming the Land of Suspicious Deaths?
If they ban hunting, people will be less likely to find the bodies.
Roper: VT Energy Policy: Saving the Planet, or Feathering Nests?
Renewable Energy Standard committee keeps the truth to themselves about favoring special interests, despite concerns and the impacts of their legislation.
Klar: Problems with Underground Carbon Storage
What incentive do companies have to keep the carbon sequestered or monitored? What is to prevent companies from discharging toxic waste as effluent?
Fernandez: Hamas and Islamo-Propaganda are the problem, not Israel
Murdering and decapitating 1400 innocent Israelis is not resistance, but a war crime against a tribe that the world has historically treated abysmally.
Klar: Biden joins globalists to undermine farmers
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.
Meiselman: Jews today, Christians tomorrow
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.
McClaughry: Are we done with costly CO2 emissions reductions?
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.
Despathy: Digital dystopia on the rise
EdTech Surveillance is driven by profit, not student safety. States must act to protect their students while they still can.
Keelan: Could it be time to buy a gun?
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.
Klar: Synthetic chicken will never fly
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.
Shepard: A nation without a conscience
“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
Klar: States eye rejecting federal education $$
For some states, no amount of federal dollars is worth denying parental rights.
Broughton: Act now to protest Pro-Hamas hatred, lies spread on campuses
Academics across America are praising the vicious attack on Israel.
Klar: When Vermonters do the job their police won’t do
If the law isn’t going to protect people, then people are going to protect themselves, a former Vermont police chief warns.
McClaughry: ACLU defends its own above all others
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.
Meiselman: It’s about America
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.
Klar: Hunting rights in the crosshairs?
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.
F&W: Anti-hunters shows ugly side on social media
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.
Roper: Former rep tries to hoodwink Vermonters
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
LaMarche: As Walgreens leaves, Burlington City Council “gets tough on drugs”
Perhaps the council will now act proactively and appropriately. Or maybe it’s too late and this has all become terminal.
Despathy: Welch’s school bus WI-Fi puts kids at risk
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.
Marroquin: Menstrual products in girls’ school bathrooms would reduce period poverty
No-one should miss more than five minutes of class to quickly, privately access a tampon.
Roper: Survey says! Vermonters really don’t support state energy policy
DPS poll/focus groups will be spun the other way, but this is what people said.
McCormick: Affordable Heat Act too costly, will be locked up in courts
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.
Keelan: If hypocrisy were a gas, it would…!
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.
Klar: Brattleboro-led hate group attacks autistic woman artist
Even after an autistic artist said she would kill herself, transgender activists continued social media attacks.








