The Democrat-led House and Senate now have the power to drive through any measure decided upon by its leaders, spurred on by their clamoring interest groups.
The Democrat-led House and Senate now have the power to drive through any measure decided upon by its leaders, spurred on by their clamoring interest groups.
Advocates of climate change legislation believe the price of fossil fuel is too low to give Vermonters an economic incentive to switch.
Grid customers and utilities have a long way to go to understand how this new system would actually work.
Dec. 1 is the deadline for Agency of Natural Resources adoption of a rule banning gasoline-powered new vehicle sales and registration in just over 12 years.
Vermont House Democrats are like the dog that finally caught the car.
The problem for the eight-year-old boy is that his brain does not warp like the warped dimensions of gender pronouns.
There are important reasons why almost half the voters supported Trump in 2016 and 2020 and why so many remain loyal to him today.
The Republican membership of the House sank from 43 to 38, with no bright new faces among them.
While my culinary standards are low, I refuse to eat pancakes without Vermont maple syrup.After making derogatory remarks about the fake stuff, I produced my cherished Morse Farm container.
Faux solutions will not offer real Vermont emissions reduction, nor will it make water and air cleaner or reduce ubiquitous microplastics.
If the VTGOP is to survive and thrive, we’d best be moving on.
Dangerous to the entrenched bureaucracy or toxic leader? Readers weigh in – and so can you.
VTDigger’s coverage of the 2022 race for Congress was not a Watergate moment.
Multi-member districts make for appallingly issue-free elections.
State trooper, school board member, selectman, soccer coach, husband, dad. Uncommon service indeed.
Democrats are already discussing huge unfunded mandates, “environmental” legislation which will drive up energy costs and hurt the environment, and schemes which will make housing more expensive and less available.
Joe Stalin said what matters isn’t who votes, but who counts the votes.
African children are forced to dig up cobalt, essential for EV batteries, with their bare hands.
The Vermont Republican Party has now put many other important rights – parental rights (including school choice), gun ownership rights, religious freedom, freedom of speech, medical choice – in grave peril.
It seemed to be widely believed in 2020 that the best approach to pandemics was to institute massive human coercion.
Passage of the Article 22 amendment now permanently shields Planned Parenthood’s abortion business from any oversight or state limitations at any time throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
The on-paper deficit reduction in the Inflation Reduction Act is totally wiped out by the administration’s decision to cancel vast swaths of student loan debt.
Democrats have lost control of the narrative, a Democrat and former lobbyist and newspaper reporter says.
In these closing days of the 2022 mid-term elections, the Red Wave must hit as a tsunami throughout the Green Mountain State.
Charges of deception by school officials in the Randolph high school volleyball locker room story.
A campaign sign for Republican House candidate is tossed to the ground while those of Democrats are left standing.
The first assassination attempt on Nancy Pelosi’s life was on January 6, blogger Kevin Ellis says. The second happened last week.
Are we going to blame fraud, lies, media bias, advertising, the Russians, or someone else?
We’ve all been there. Unless you’re Amish.
Compared to women who carry their children to term, those who obtain abortions experience consistently higher rates of mental illness. They also engage in more self-destructive behavior, like suicide, than women who do not have abortions.
The power-hungry governors and the evil men and women who did this to us will never admit what they did because right now all they care about is hoping we’ll just forget about it.
Once they chemically, physically and psychologically change the individual, the individual is no longer in control of their reproductive autonomy. It is gone forever.
Pop quiz, Vermont voters: will your choices for Vermont House & Senate vote to extend the 6% sales tax to services like haircuts and plumbing?
After Covid lockdowns, masks, social distancing and compelled vaccinations to keep jobs, enter buildings or travel, it should not be a stretch of the imagination to believe that our government is more than willing to suspend our constitutional rights.
The state’s actions to date can be cynically described as bureaucratic window-dressing in responding to the housing crisis.
Some critics of Cambridge-Waterville House candidate Rebecca Pitre have a bad case of PDS.
Constitutional amendments don’t need to be vague. Just look at Michigan’s.
Thank God for Vermont Daily Chronicle and True North Reports and [WVMT’s] The Morning Drive. The rest of our press is biased, and operates as the left arm of the Democrat/Progressive party.
In the practice of slavery the human dignity, economic opportunity, and personal liberty of the powerful was counted as more important than the human dignity of the vulnerable.
If the red wave doesn’t reach Vermont, Republicans wondering why should look in the mirror.
To suggest, as Drs. Till and MacAfee do, that something that constitutionally protected late-term abortions will “never happen” is naïve at best and dangerously misleading at worst.
It’s a bad sign when one side of a political debate demands to cut off the microphones of the people on the other, the WSJ writes, and John McClaughry agrees.
Time for the oil companies and the President to get off the dime. More US oil needs to flow immediately.
One ballot question asks Vermonters to ban slavery. The other asks Vermonters to okay killing a living being.
Windham County House candidate Nancy Gassett details problems with the universal mailed ballot election system.
Who wouldn’t want to move to Vermont and enjoy living in downtown – isn’t that why you’d move here?
It’s inexplicable. Why would the CDC advisory committee endorse an experimental not-really-a-vaccine for a disease with minimal symptoms on children?
The greatest medical scandal of our time is dismissed as a conservative preoccupation, Abigail Shrier says.
There are all kinds of bullies. Some of them carry guns, some of them run goat sanctuaries.
A constitutional amendment would trump any hospital ‘custom and practice’ regulating late-term abortion.
Vermont can say No Deal to California’s planned ban on the sale internal combustion engine vehicles.
Listening to the Vermont Climate Council talk about supposed cost savings from emissions reductions, I was reminded of a classic scene from Caddyshack involving Bill Murray’s character and the Dalai Lama.
There is much local speculation about the convenient timing of Hoyt’s move to Middletown Springs, his brief non-campaign and dropping out at the midnight hour. Robin Chesnut-Tangerman quickly maneuvered himself into the race as the Democratic candidate for State Representative.
When NASA stands for “Not A Sensible Ambition.”
If a 40-year-old known pedophile begins a relationship with your vulnerable 9-year-old girl, can you, a parent, intervene?
Amazon’s algorithms know everything about you and are a little too eager to please.
The father of a Randolph Union High School girl who complained about having a biological male watch her undress refused to recant his social media statements supporting her. So the school system fired him.
‘America last’ energy policies pushed by the Democratic Party are leading New England to the brink off blackouts.
If Article 22 passes, Vermont doctors and nurses may be compelled to do procedures that violate their consciences.
Big news – both good and bad – about the coming decrease in global population. Bottom line? Don’t worry, be happy, we’ll adjust.
A veteran Vermont bioethicist warns that if Article 22 passes, no law or regulation can stop unlimited late term abortions or minors making life-altering medical decisions without parental permission.
Vermont neighborhoods are still racially segregated? Where?
First-person account of Vermont business owner punished financially by government for speaking out against schools teaching gender fluidity.
To me the real threat to democracy is the policies of this Democrat-run administration which are destroying our economy, our culture and our sovereignty.
Overwhelmed by far-left out-of-staters who had moved to Vermont and were not at all tolerant of any political views that weren’t like theirs.
By God and our Constitutions, we must protect and preserve the voice of “We the People” before our freedoms slip away from us by lies and fraud.
This debate is about whether abortion should be subject to any legal government limitations.
Why are these professionals but ostriches flocking to Vermont? Thanks to our avowed socialist Senator, Bernie Sanders, the rest of the USA sees Vermont as a far-left socialist stronghold.
Discriminatory language used on Front Porch Forum, GOP candidate alleges.
The transgender movement “led us to sacrifice our healthy bodies and future fertility in obeisance to the claim that our suffering was a result of having a gender identity that did not match our biological sex.”
School choice law with teeth passes in Arizona. When will it be Vermont’s turn?
World class brands. World class businesses, athletes, leaders, and hospitality. Just think of what this state has already contributed to the world.
Lt. Gov. candidate David Zuckerman 14 years ago adroitly worked the land trust system to add more than 100 acres of land and receive a hefty cash payment, a farmer, lawyer and Vermont Senate candidate says.
Legislation prohibiting Vermont parents from stopping child gender surgery and hormone blockers would be protected by Article 22.
There is so much historically that science has gotten wrong. So much pain, death and damage have been left in technology’s wake. The list is but here is a start:
Homeland Security is worried about the public safety threat posed by drones. Tough new legislation needed, its chief says.
I think we need to let our children be children up until they’re 18. Then they can decide for themselves who they are.
Wildcatters who typically drill fast and force prices down have been stymied by pressure against investment in fossil fuels and a hostile regulatory environment.
Giving a ‘Compelling State Interest’ about reproduction to a Legislature that would radically reduce the impact of humanity on the ecosystem – that’s something to worry about.
Give an addict $100. Will he buy drugs or food for his or her family?
It is clearly a law violation for a male student to watch a female student change her bra or underwear in a women’s locker room or bathroom.
For the Vermont pro-abortion lobby, it’s all or nothing — either you believe in abortion up to the time of birth or you are not pro-choice in their eyes.
The thousands of credentialed scientists who find no credible support for an approaching ‘climate emergency’ don’t exist in the Nature Conservancy’s keynote speaker’s world.
Article 22 would prohibit any prohibition of late term abortion. And what’s with the new Constitutional right for Reproductive Autonomy for men?
Relax, that looming ban on buying a gas-powered car, enacted without a vote by the Legislature, is a mere 12 years away.
The cost of living has jumped an average of $597/month since the inauguration of Joe Biden.
Rep. Dr. George Till, baby-deliverer-by-night, legislator and usurper of parental rights by day, apparently also has the gift of prophecy.
It’s hard for a state government to argue for taxpayer money to subsidize the high cost of something they’re simultaneously trying to price consumers out of the market.
“We are living in a time when we often tell our neighbors to go out and live the Dream, but what are we doing to help them do that?,” Democratic House candidate and minister Devon Thomas asks.
All but one of the states with universal mailed ballots are below the U.S. average in the disparity between white and black voting rates. Vermont is the second-worst in the nation.
A Vermonter asks: what does Article 22 mean by ‘a compelling state interest’? And what do the framers of the proposed constitutional amendment mean by ‘privilege’?
Being a Vermont Republican, I always have to step back and evaluate whether the Republicans in Washington really represent us here in Vermont, but on this issue I think they drafted a plan that any Vermont Republicans could stand on.
Suddenly Becca Balint’s a no-show at Congressional debates.
Bernie Sanders is “oblivious to the reality of the global and domestic energy challenges we face,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Virginia) says.
Regardless of age, if a child tells the school nurse or teacher they no longer want to be a boy or girl, the State could immediately take the decision out of the parents’ hands.
Nathan Hale remembered on 246th anniversary of his heroic death.
Don Keelan ponders the takeaway from the public remembrances of the life of Queen Elizabeth II.
I was supposed to be born dead, but I miraculously survived. Countless others like me do not.
About the only people who made money from Vermont’s wind turbines were the developers, who collected money not for selling the power produced, but by soaking up various forms of government subsidies and incentive payments.
I think Balint doesn’t understand that 86% of people is an enormous middle ground—many of whom feel dismayed by the polarized, black-and-white fundamentalism on the extremes.