It’s time to stick it to that redneck Republican who has been hauling the #2 fuel-oil hose up your posted, habitat-fragmenting driveway to ensure all 4,000 square feet (and three-car garage) stays at 70 degrees when the heat pump succumbs to the laws of physics.

The proponents of the bill themselves can’t or won’t tell Vermonters what it will cost and how much fuel will increase to pay for it, as no financial analysis has been requested or developed by the committee. 

Vermonters already expect vaccine outcome data are being compiled and monitored – but incredibly they are not.

No technology can replace the quiet solitude and person-to-person educational learning experiences found in a library environment.

The tide has turned to what is now a social welfare state, implementing similar programs that have been a failure in California, and closer to home, in Burlington.

Too late for voters considering Article 22, expert/lawmaker discussion of new legislation answers some then-unanswered questions about the controversial amendment to the Vermont Constitution.

S66, a bill intended to cut religious schools out of public tuition, could lead to the closure of private Lyndon Institute, thus depriving NEK sudents of their long-standing tuition high school.

This retreat from Vermont’s long practice of parental choice for their children in tuition towns will be a disgraceful victory for a public school monopoly that puts its own interests far ahead of the interests of the pupils that Vermont education is supposed to serve.

Let the State of Vermont ‘fix’ the housing crisis like the way it fixed the education spending crisis and the climate crisis? Beware the Trojan Horse.

Despite higher-than-college per-pupil costs, only 40% of VT public school students meet grade level standards, and discipline and school safety are problematic.

If the people building the more stick-than-carrot Affordable Heating Act were building a house, I would go nowhere near it.

“Public schools are in a crisis,” school superintendent Libby Bonesteel said. “Every school system has students who are explosive in ways that we have never seen before…. Teachers are quite literally scared, and administrators are at a loss. People are getting hurt, and rooms are getting trashed.”

An Abenaki activist asks senators where the social justice and equity went when S5, the not Affordable Heating Act, was drafted.

Vermont’s renewable power development was patterned after Germany’s – and now our European ally is looking at electricity shortages, after closing their nuclear power plants. Sound familiar?

A new Education and Civic Engagement Coordinator position has been created because sometimes people don’t know how to vote, or they don’t know the candidates, or they don’t know whether their vote will make a difference.

Amid the worst worker shortage ever, the State of Vermont is emulating the states workers are leaving in droves.

Some regulation is needed to protect Vermonters and the environment – but right now, Act 250 hinders farm and forest operations, a Lyndon lawmaker on the House ag/foresty committee says.

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime, but helplessness is a learned behavior.

Governments use money as well as weapons to wage war.

Senators seem more interested in building a legal argument against violating interstate commerce law than answering questions about cost and potential smuggling.

Vermont environmentalists opposed to intensified wind and solar development are fighting what Rachel Carlson called “the basic irresponsibility of an industrialized, technological society toward the natural world.”

Bend the knee, kiss the ring, bow to the statue or you won’t get the goodies.

If only…..

A young GOP candidate asks bitter critics of the Democratic win in November: did you volunteer for a Republican? Did you vote?

Shamelessly renamed ‘the Affordable Heating Act,” S5 will create a carbon tax and state bureaucracy to subsidize heat pumps and weatherization.

The wealthy will be able to enjoy our country farmlands and forests while the working class will be a new “servant class.”

This year legislators changed the name of the vetoed “Clean Heat Standard” to the “Affordable Heat Act” in an attempt to make it more palatable to Vermonters, wink, wink.

There is scarcely ever a weather year that is average anywhere.

People can’t afford an apartment or house because they have to spend too much on health care, child care, property taxes, food, clothing, heat, electricity, internet, phone service, car registration, car insurance, garbage and recycling fees, gas for their cars, diesel, and sales and use taxes.

The demand and priorities of Burlington hold strong, dangerous and inappropriate influence over the whole of Vermont.

There is a way forward with the debt ceiling – but not the path supported by the Wall Street Journal.

In New York City, ‘non-compliant’ building owners must buy carbon emissions offsets. Coming to Vermont?

Article 22 guarantees the tissue mine will remain open.

On climate action, there is a line between brave and impudent.

Many will consider me a fool for even questioning the longevity benefit of our Washington Senators.

Actually, foot-not-leg hold traps aren’t particularly painful. But try to tell an anti-trapper that.

In response to a public records request, the Vermont Agency of Education admitted it has no written evidence for mask safety.

The shortform name for this year’s version of last year’s Clean Heat Standard bill is now the brazenly misleading “Affordable Heat Act.”

This is beyond a racket.

Did Tony Fauci foresee almost every detail of the pandemic and pandemic response? Or did he actually help make it happen? Just asking….

One of Vermont’s pre-eminent tech gurus thinks 2023 could be the start of something very, very good for the world.

The logic is simple: criminals want easy victims, they do not want armed adversaries.

The homeless don’t have a home because we, as a society, have not built enough affordable housing, blogger Kevin Ellis warns his fellow Democrats.

The people of the United States elected 432 people to represent them in Congress, yet even before they start their first day at work they are completely controlled, unable to vote their conscience.

Lawsuits are challenging laws that kick parents out of the village regarding their child’s reproductive experiences and choices.

With a veto-proof and disciplined 104-38 majority in the House, the Democrats are eager to pass a renamed “Clean Heat Standard” whether Gov. Phil Scott likes it or not.

We have come a long way from the socks (or was it gloves?) that President Obama sent after Russia’s invasion of Crimea.

“Legislators can fight crime and respond to hate without violating the First Amendment or drafting me into the speech police,” a critic of New York’s new ‘hate speech’ law seeking $1000/day fines says.

What this means for Vermont is that now other high achieving schools, such as Rice Memorial High School (tuition: $12,214) in Burlington and Christ the King (tuition $5,590) in Rutland are available choices for tuitioning students. That’s a good thing.

It appears that I was mistaken in my attack of David Zuckerman, for which I owed him a meeting, and an apology.

Those Drive Electric ads you see with the huckster trying to sell internal combustion to skeptical Vermonters? The real life hucksters were in St. Johnsbury, trying to sell the Clean Heat Standard.

The boy asked, “Is there any hope that my mother and father could be together at my house on Christmas morning? Can you make this happen, Santa?”

The media is not doing their job. They helped create this mess, a former candidate for lieutenant governor says.

Increasingly, American mainstream media clamor against “Christian Nationalism.”

Bernie Sanders says corporate-owned media aren’t doing enough to cover poverty or the climate crisis.

Huge populations supposedly threatened by rising seas are actually facing flooding due to sinking land.

Lincoln’s ‘better angels of our nature’ were absent when the Vermont State Constitution was amended in 1870, 1913, and 2022.