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.
“The emperor is not only naked, he just took a dump in front of the old YMCA,” Seven Days Publisher Paula Routly wrote this week. We make 10 suggestions to clean up the mess.
Authoritarianism is rooted in the notion that politicians, bureaucrats, and their favored special interests have the right to tread on everyone.
Destroy law and order, then institute state control of food.
So what if Vermont GHG emissions down and our state is three-quarters carbon dioxide-sucking forest. Lawmakers and unelected influencers meeting behind closed doors this week still favor the stick over the carrot.
I don’t think we should attempt to put either the genius or the genie back in the bottle. We will have to watch them both.
Across the pond, the United Kingdom’s Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, has pledged that if he wins a majority in parliament he will seek to re-negotiate key aspects of Brexit.
We are in a global Prisoner’s Dilemma. Will other countries sell us out and leave us holding the Climate Change bag?
In “Measuring the quantity of harmful volatile organic compounds inhaled through masks,” NIH posited what many concerned parents had wondered about in 2020.
The Constitutionally-protected primacy of the Congress is clear, and all parties need to remember this.
In Vermont and in the United States, God and our Constitution cannot fall to Socialism unless we allow it to. Today’s deterioration of God, family and community is a result of a hidden plan.
Central to this work is the goal of increasing Vermont’s population to 802,000 and increasing housing inventory to 350,000 non-seasonal units by 2035.
None of this speaks well of the competency with which this program will be managed. And it is going to be exceedingly complicated.
In seeking the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, mankind has habitually crafted machinations with destructive impacts often unforeseen.
We have to break free from the tolerance we have built up toward the transgressions of those in government and honestly examine whose name we check off on our ballot paper.
At the rate that young adults are dying from overdose, being incarcerated, and ending up in recovery centers, do you need to ask, where are the young people?
PETA and animal activists speculate about the mystery of the rights and consciousness of dolphins, cows, and coyotes. Rational beings would ask how killing in the name of being humane is humane.
Examining Vermont’s situation, looking at the voter rolls and election operations.
There are many findings that refute the claims in the training however they aren’t important because the goal is not protecting certain groups from injustice but creating new sources of privilege.
These are the most egregious conflicts of interest on the committee, and you can count on them to shape policy in ways that funnel money to their doners through mandates and subsidies.
We need to stand by Secretary French, the Vermont Agency of Education, and our local school boards when they decide to protect students, and acknowledge the harms of masking.
How elections are centrally managed to deliver victory to the pre-selected candidates.
In Vermont, the voter rolls are growing significantly faster than the underlying population growth of voting age adults, with significant growth before elections and purges immediately after.
What you hear is the sound of Franz Kafka rolling over in his grave muttering “I tried to warn you”.
The rippling effects of the Ukraine War are cataclysmic in greenhouse gas terms.
Rather than foster a less hostile environment and reduce conflict, this document looks like a recipe for creating hostile, harassing and conflict laden work places.
We’ll never be perfect, as the document itself in its wisdom recognizes, but its promise is that we can be a more perfect nation today than we were yesterday, and an even more perfect nation tomorrow.
In order for America to sustain a strong and objective-minded military apparatus, it is paramount that we create a clear demarcation between corporate interests and the protection of national security
At best, this will be an expensive, inefficient way to dispose of these highly addictive substances. It is quite likely a significant amount of opioids will be stolen and sold illegally,.
Alarmists cultishly fiddle as Rome burns. Not even arsonists deter them from incinerating sensible science.
We are men and women who work hard, putting the time and money into our hounds for outcomes of listening to the dogs sing and sometimes… we put bacon on the smoker.
Grisham has it backwards. She thinks taking guns away is upholding rights but banning abortions takes away rights.
Elected legislators are there to serve the people so why do so many Vermonters feel attacked, ambushed and abused during the legislative session?
This is blatant attempt to politicize the Supreme Court, which was and is supposed to be separated from and be a check and balance on the partisan passions that drive the elected branches of government.
To be against cows is to be against self, and an understanding of the necessary human place in the world. Next thing you know, the similar uninformed arguments will be used to ban trapping or hunting.
We not only have a shortage of workers but also a shortage of women of child-bearing age to give us more workers even if the fertility rate increases.
Let’s put those hatchets away and get on with what we must do. Make it possible for young people to afford to live and work in Vermont.
The nation’s agricultural backbone is cracked.
Beware of the one-party system as it is in Vermont. Hold fast to God and our Constitution as these are the only protections left that we have.
Vermont’s not among the 13 states with movement to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. Yet.
New Democrat lawmakers join a party tribe while their constituents suffer.
Our glorious leaders in Montpelier will take their work as gospel, even as they continue to neglect the Odanak people and bolster divisive notions of ‘justice.
The Vermont Constitution established a Council of Censors “that would assure that the freedom of the commonwealth may be preserved inviolate forever”.
Washington State sees highest gas prices in country following carbon tax
Surely Serge Monast sounded like a crank to most of the people who bothered to entertain his theories back in the 80s and 90s. However, thirty years later are his detractors looking like the foolishly naïve?
Each week, Shepard discusses what makes him sick in politics that particular week.
Vermont once had, at least in my Normal Rockwell-esque memory, a sense of independence and a toe-hold on sanity. That place Calvin Coolidge called home. Not anymore.
For the elites, net-zero emission “standards” are applied to cows, cars, and gas stoves but not to jet travel, ski chalets, and golf courses…or Nature itself.
Three hours a day riding a school bus is the price some students pay for the school district’s failure to hire enough drivers.
Many voters are woefully or intentionally blind to what’s going on, or they are happy being just obedient servants. They limit themselves to knowing only what their party’s propagandists tell them.
Choice in schools doesn’t create administrative chaos. Vermont’s vocational technical schools. provide a model for how school choice could be managed.
As the UK had resoundingly rejected neoliberal thought in favor of jump-starting the repatriation of national decision-making, so must we.
What made America the world’s education leader? The evidence points to the importance of local, rather than state regulations and to grassroots action rather than top-down campaigns.
You and I are blessed to live every day amid four-season (okay, three) scenes of splendor.
If the organization has been physically abusing children and defrauding the taxpayers I can see where they might be in fear of someone shining a light on their improprieties.
It is this mentality of ‘compassion without comprehension’ that results in the abuses of people by those in positions of power who demand full compliance without question.
An outfit called Our Children’s Trust brought a suit from 16 Montana youth who allege they are harmed by climate change and the state’s energy policies.
You don’t want to leave politics up to those who have an agenda.
The average age of American farmers is now 60. More people are switching to farming careers, but even there, the average was 46.3 years in last Census, and new farms are more likely to be smaller.
