If Vermont doesn’t like the services provided by an insurance company with 213 years of experience, we could always bring the program in house, hire state employees, and acquire an IT network.

Okay, you S.37 proponents, just come out and say it! Tell us what motivates you.

Reluctant tour guide Rep. Charles Wilson points out the landmarks on the the Vermont Legislature’s well-intentioned Road to Taxpayer Hell.

“We crafted a complete hard stop for the plan being developed under the affordable heat act,” Sen. Chris Bray tells a constituent.

To lawmakers supporting S.5, people of limited resources are collateral damage.

There is cause for concern about the study period. It establishes the first part of the expanding bureaucracy necessary to implement and supervise the program.

If enacted as introduced, AHA will be the largest and most expensive social program ever paid for by Vermonters.

Every time the state’s Child Protection Registry allegations are challenged, the state is found to be lacking the necessary evidence.

Why the retreat, dare we call it a rout? (Think Custer at Little Big Horn.)

It is mean-spirited and unnecessary to try to silence PRCs and open them up to investigations by abortion ideologues.

Today in Vermont, polarization, lack of civility, and disagreement are as present as maple trees.

The more you learn about the misnamed Affordable Heating Act, the less you like it.

I’m realistic enough to know H.74 will not be considered in today’s political majority in Montpelier. However, I will not stop in advocating for a balance in what Vermonters can achieve and afford in efforts to reduce our green house gas emissions.

An aggressive Legislature is pushing fear and unaffordable climate, housing and school meals policies.

“We withdrew from the tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players,” a Vermont school headmistress said.

A very low standard of proof combined with bureaucratic timidity makes it very easy to be added to the registry.

Thanks to new American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines, child obesity may join the already long list for which lawyers bring malpractice suits against doctors.

Will America soon be begging for immigrants to come? And by the way – all the climate doomsday scenarios are bogus because they ignore Peak People.

the world’s mining can not and will not be able to supply us with the required quantities of the two dozen or so minerals needed to make the machines of our world’s “Energy Transition”.   

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.