Huge populations supposedly threatened by rising seas are actually facing flooding due to sinking land.
Finnie: Thanks for ‘Day of Infamy’ memoir
Former State House security guard urges Capitol flags be flown at half mast on Pearl Harbor Day.
Tarrant: current state constitution a ‘shim-sham show,’ historically speaking
Lincoln’s ‘better angels of our nature’ were absent when the Vermont State Constitution was amended in 1870, 1913, and 2022.
Brook: Ferguson study justifies any flu season as ‘pandemic’
A study by a ‘father’ of lockdown policy suggests the pandemic potential of a flu virus should be largely based upon the very high number of people who have either no symptoms or negligible symptoms. Huh?
Williams: Vermont, the Biomedical Security State?
Since the pandemic, Vermont is looking more and more like what Dr. Aaron Kheriaty calls ‘the Biomedical Security State.’
Despathy: Climate change & cobalt blood money
Vermont is aiding and abetting an industry with unethical, destructive and cruel practices beyond our comprehension.
Klar: Trans Randolph student admits staring at disrobing girls was “retaliation”
“The first thing I hear is “Rabbit, get out! What are you doing in here? Shut up!” and like “I don’t want you to see,” or whatever and so I retaliated at this point because this is the second time that they had been indescribably rude to me and my gender identity.”
Siegel: ‘Brave enough to lose’ race for governor, now focused on issues
To lose is hard. To walk into the fire with your eyes wide open is hard.
Keelan: from crypto to EVs, tech-driven changes need second look
The Big Brains running Big Tech are making Big Mistakes.
McClaughry: Johnstown Flood of bills will sweep through Vermont State House
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.
Evslin: Legislators must First Do No Harm
Advocates of climate change legislation believe the price of fossil fuel is too low to give Vermonters an economic incentive to switch.
Smith: Living off the grid not so simple
Grid customers and utilities have a long way to go to understand how this new system would actually work.
Higley: December 1 deadline for rule on 2035 ban on new gas-powered vehicles
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.
‘Scribblings’: VT House Dem leaders heavy-handed on rank-and-file
Vermont House Democrats are like the dog that finally caught the car.
Eight-year-old shamed in Vermont school over pronouns
The problem for the eight-year-old boy is that his brain does not warp like the warped dimensions of gender pronouns.
Evslin: Trump was the middle finger of the proletariat
There are important reasons why almost half the voters supported Trump in 2016 and 2020 and why so many remain loyal to him today.
McClaughry: Election Aftershocks
The Republican membership of the House sank from 43 to 38, with no bright new faces among them.
Libertoff: Maple syrup, Thanksgiving, and Small World connections
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.
Despathy: To meet carbon ‘goals,’ Vermont will play the corporate carbon credit game
Faux solutions will not offer real Vermont emissions reduction, nor will it make water and air cleaner or reduce ubiquitous microplastics.
Benning: To elect candidates, VT GOP must move on from Trump
If the VTGOP is to survive and thrive, we’d best be moving on.
Support Trump in 2024 – or not?
Dangerous to the entrenched bureaucracy or toxic leader? Readers weigh in – and so can you.
Meyers: Balint team falsely called Molly Gray ‘homophobic’
VTDigger’s coverage of the 2022 race for Congress was not a Watergate moment.
McClaughry: Three useful election law improvements
Multi-member districts make for appallingly issue-free elections.
Keelan: for local soccer coach, uncommon service was a common virtue
State trooper, school board member, selectman, soccer coach, husband, dad. Uncommon service indeed.
Evslin: Phil Scott wins huge victory – and now has an even huger job ahead of him
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.
Koch: Democracy at stake when ballots are counted
Joe Stalin said what matters isn’t who votes, but who counts the votes.
Lindberg: Feel good about banning slavery? Not so fast
African children are forced to dig up cobalt, essential for EV batteries, with their bare hands.
Fireovid: Republicans, let’s talk about abortion
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.
Tucker: The economic disaster of the pandemic response
It seemed to be widely believed in 2020 that the best approach to pandemics was to institute massive human coercion.
Beerworth: Planned Parenthood spent big on misleading Article 22 advertising
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.
McClaughry: Biden’s idea of our fiscal future
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.
Ellis: Democratic Dilemma
Democrats have lost control of the narrative, a Democrat and former lobbyist and newspaper reporter says.
Thayer: Help the Red Wave roll across the Green Mountain State
In these closing days of the 2022 mid-term elections, the Red Wave must hit as a tsunami throughout the Green Mountain State.
Klar: Randolph school officials lied to student in pursuit of Blake Allen, another mom says
Charges of deception by school officials in the Randolph high school volleyball locker room story.
Sign-stealing illegal, discouraging, expensive
A campaign sign for Republican House candidate is tossed to the ground while those of Democrats are left standing.
Ellis: Assassination Nation
The first assassination attempt on Nancy Pelosi’s life was on January 6, blogger Kevin Ellis says. The second happened last week.
Evslin: Most of us will be disappointed by the election outcome
Are we going to blame fraud, lies, media bias, advertising, the Russians, or someone else?
State trooper gripes about frustrating software glitches – sound familiar?
We’ve all been there. Unless you’re Amish.
Article 22 & suicide
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.
Hughes: Covid ‘amnesty’ plea lacks repentance – so no deal!
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.
Sexton: can five-year-olds understand what’s being taken from them?
Once they chemically, physically and psychologically change the individual, the individual is no longer in control of their reproductive autonomy. It is gone forever.
McClaughry: Parties aren’t engaging on the really important issues
Pop quiz, Vermont voters: will your choices for Vermont House & Senate vote to extend the 6% sales tax to services like haircuts and plumbing?
Bucchieri: Skeptical about State ‘compelling interest’ in reproduction
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.
Keelan: While VT pols praise their housing spending ‘success,’ new workforce housing scarce
The state’s actions to date can be cynically described as bureaucratic window-dressing in responding to the housing crisis.
Putnam: “Pitre Derangement Syndrome”
Some critics of Cambridge-Waterville House candidate Rebecca Pitre have a bad case of PDS.
Unlike Vermont, Michigan Reproductive Liberty amendment says what it means
Constitutional amendments don’t need to be vague. Just look at Michigan’s.
Rowell: So tired of the one-sided news coverage
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.
Hypocrisy Is on the Ballot in Vermont
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.
Titus: Red wave should be tsunami – three reasons it might not be
If the red wave doesn’t reach Vermont, Republicans wondering why should look in the mirror.
Kauffman: Article 22 strips power from Legislature, gives it unelected hospitals, judges
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.
McClaughry: Climate censorship
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.
Oil Companies profit because we shut off Russian competition
Time for the oil companies and the President to get off the dime. More US oil needs to flow immediately.
Green: Paradox Lost on Article 22 voters?
One ballot question asks Vermonters to ban slavery. The other asks Vermonters to okay killing a living being.
Gassett: ‘Election Month’ replacing ‘Election Day’
Windham County House candidate Nancy Gassett details problems with the universal mailed ballot election system.
Gray: Legislature saves country estates for the elites
Who wouldn’t want to move to Vermont and enjoy living in downtown – isn’t that why you’d move here?
Despathy: Never experiment on children
It’s inexplicable. Why would the CDC advisory committee endorse an experimental not-really-a-vaccine for a disease with minimal symptoms on children?
Brodowski: informing parents about gender ideology
The greatest medical scandal of our time is dismissed as a conservative preoccupation, Abigail Shrier says.
Brink: Vermont gun culture critics can be bullies, too
There are all kinds of bullies. Some of them carry guns, some of them run goat sanctuaries.
Lawyer: Hospitals can’t deny late-term abortions if Article 22 passes
A constitutional amendment would trump any hospital ‘custom and practice’ regulating late-term abortion.
Higley: Lawmakers can refuse climate ban on internal combustion cars – and should
Vermont can say No Deal to California’s planned ban on the sale internal combustion engine vehicles.
Roper: Climate Plan’s Costs Are Real. Savings, Not So Much
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.
Luebke: Return of the Fox – Legal, Ethical or Moral Conduct?
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.
McClaughry: $93 billion to land first woman, POC on the moon
When NASA stands for “Not A Sensible Ambition.”
Questions about Article 22 & pedophilia, minor abortion
If a 40-year-old known pedophile begins a relationship with your vulnerable 9-year-old girl, can you, a parent, intervene?
Evslin: Amazon algorithm confirms my bias
Amazon’s algorithms know everything about you and are a little too eager to please.
Klar: Father of Randolph volleyball whistleblower fired as soccer coach
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.
If winter blackouts hit, blame Democrats
‘America last’ energy policies pushed by the Democratic Party are leading New England to the brink off blackouts.
Pro-choice but opposed to late-term abortions? Vote no on Article 22
If Article 22 passes, Vermont doctors and nurses may be compelled to do procedures that violate their consciences.
Evslin: Global population will DROP – what it means
Big news – both good and bad – about the coming decrease in global population. Bottom line? Don’t worry, be happy, we’ll adjust.
Bioethicist: if hospital changes late-term abortion policy, Article 22 would prevent restrictions
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.
Keelan: Well-meant report on Vermont racism goes sideways
Vermont neighborhoods are still racially segregated? Where?
Fireovid: wrote gender identity op-ed, lost government contract
First-person account of Vermont business owner punished financially by government for speaking out against schools teaching gender fluidity.
Sandgate voter jumping for Joe Gervais
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.
Mentioned Trump, told to find another table
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.
Wilson: Vermont, poster child for ignorance
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.
What Article 22 says, and doesn’t say
This debate is about whether abortion should be subject to any legal government limitations.
Fireovid: Professionals with heads in the political sand moving to Vermont
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.
Candidate condemns ‘despicable conduct’ on Front Porch Forum
Discriminatory language used on Front Porch Forum, GOP candidate alleges.
De-trans people ask Garland to not allow social media censorship
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.”
McClaughry: Real school choice passes in Arizona
School choice law with teeth passes in Arizona. When will it be Vermont’s turn?
Young Senate candidate: Vermont is ‘world class’
World class brands. World class businesses, athletes, leaders, and hospitality. Just think of what this state has already contributed to the world.
Klar: Zuckerman, “Mr. Palmolive,” slick-handed agri-businessman
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.
Kauffman: Article 22 ‘reproductive liberty’ would protect child consent for transgender surgery, hormone blockers
Legislation prohibiting Vermont parents from stopping child gender surgery and hormone blockers would be protected by Article 22.
Despathy: science a double-edged sword
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 worried about drones
Homeland Security is worried about the public safety threat posed by drones. Tough new legislation needed, its chief says.
Townsend: Solutions for school bathroom problem
I think we need to let our children be children up until they’re 18. Then they can decide for themselves who they are.
Evslin: Let’s push oil prices down to $40. We can do that
Wildcatters who typically drill fast and force prices down have been stymied by pressure against investment in fossil fuels and a hostile regulatory environment.
Article 22 takes Vermont a century backwards
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.
Keelan: Vermont food insecurity tied to drug epidemic
Give an addict $100. Will he buy drugs or food for his or her family?
Randolph school officials accessories to crime of voyeurism, dad warns
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.
Pro-choice and against Article 22
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.
McClaughry: Marketing the climate catastrophe narrative
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.
Strong: 5 Key Issues with Prop 5/Article 22
Article 22 would prohibit any prohibition of late term abortion. And what’s with the new Constitutional right for Reproductive Autonomy for men?
McClaughry: No gasoline powered car ban until 2035!
Relax, that looming ban on buying a gas-powered car, enacted without a vote by the Legislature, is a mere 12 years away.
Gervais: How’s that new $600-a-month tax increase going for you?
The cost of living has jumped an average of $597/month since the inauguration of Joe Biden.
Brodowski: baby doctor Till wrong on Article 22 prophecy
Rep. Dr. George Till, baby-deliverer-by-night, legislator and usurper of parental rights by day, apparently also has the gift of prophecy.
Roper: Governor, we can’t afford the heating fuels we’re about to tax
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.
Minister runs for House as Democrat
“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.
Vermont has second-highest white/minority voting gap in nation
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.
Edmunds: Distraction & the Invisible Agenda
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’?







