Reporting of side effects isn’t required under Vermont’s “ostrich-head-in-the-sand” aid-in-dying law.

Census data shows blue states losing people and income to red states.

Democrat rule has placed Vermont in hospice while we wait for it to die like every other Democrat-run hell-hole in America.

A key lawmaker admits S.5 won’t do much to reduce global carbon emissions. So why does she still support it?

Governor Scott often is the voice of forgotten Vermonters and has become the conscience of the state.

Those that heat with wood, electricity, or natural gas receive special treatment and become a protected class in S.5 while continuing to pour carbon into the atmosphere.

In plain English, if you believe you are unfairly or extralegally regulated by a Federal agency, you now have a constitutional right to have that dispute settled by an independent third party judge

Promise that “nothing would move forward without affirmative action by the future legislature,” is shown to be very, very false.

As many of you were yesterday upon hearing Fox News Network was “parting ways” with Tucker Carlson, the shock was sudden but the surprise was short-lived.

Artificial intelligence is the same kind of challenge to the (over-) educated class that globalization was to those without a college degree.

The Clean Heat Standard bill (S.5) is designed to shield the law from the charge of being a carbon tax – although it will have precisely the same effect on consumers.

If current legislation passes, more dairy farms will go under, landlords will continue to raise rents, energy, health care and transportation costs will rise,. We will see more lawsuits against the State of Vermont and a doubled salary increase for the legislators.

We must address the regulatory barriers that exist on the local and state level, including reducing the barriers to environmentally thoughtful development that have been caused by Act 250.

When this year’s significant housing bill, S.100, arrived at the House’s Committee on Housing, many of the members were looking forward to conducting thoughtful legislation to collaborate and make it possible to increase the housing stock in our state.

Columnist George Will will speak at the Ethan Allen Institute dinner May 31. What would his speech sound like if written by ChatGPT? Could you tell the difference?

H.230 specifically targets the LGBTQ+ community for gun control, in the name of suicide prevention.

According to the Tax Foundation, in 2022 Vermont already had the 4th highest state and local tax burden in the country at 13.6 percent. But, oh, wait till next year!  

I have grave concerns that Vermonters cannot sustain the nearly one-half billion dollar increase in spending over the next two years.

Who do you know who is slated to get a raise of 23% plus?  Answer: Your local legislator! And what’s more, that’s only part of the story—it gets worse!

The current supermajority rules and it is all about programs and committees, out-of-state agendas, and a huge growing bureaucracy. Who really stands to benefit? The very few elites.

The term convention of states (COS) can be confusing to the average citizen given its vague federal and constitutional implications. What are the risks if any? 

Doubtless this new religion will eventually be challenged by American secular jurisprudence. The outcome of that court battle will determine whether America remains a land of the Constitutionally free.

H89 and S37, the so-called shield bills, do not extend equal personal reproductive protection as required under Article 22.  

Could the real existential threat to Vermont maple syrup be very actions taken to prevent climate change?

Government should allow and encourage (not require, not subsidize) more building of less expensive housing including rental units.

Banning sales of certain classes of firearms because they can be used in mass shootings – the so-called “assault weapons” ban – was tried for ten years with approximately zero positive results.

The problem is that independent pharmacies are getting paid less than what it costs to fill the prescription for the patient.

I became a self-avowed atheist.  Not just a happy-go-lucky atheist.  A radical atheist – one that reveled in the oratorical brilliance of Hitchens as he verbally dismantled cohorts of Christian apologists.

The enviros are sometimes willing to allow more more housing in urban areas – but never, ever out in the countryside.

Conceived in Liberty and born to immigrant parents in 1776, America died today after a brief illness. For many, it is hard to believe that she is gone.

There are so many reasons for compassionate, conservation-minded people to oppose S.5 – pick at least one and tell your House representative, Alison Despathy advises.

House committee clarifies it’s a (very limited) “throttle down.”

You, like me, may not even bother to look out the windows on a daily basis to lament the sad goings on in our world.

Whereas progressive European countries are pursuing science-based policies, the VPA is listening only to wildly biased, unscientific opinions of ideological activists. 

Authentic Vermont embodies agriculture, self-sufficiency and independence, a strong work ethic, healthy communities and families, faith and honorable values and fiscal responsibility.

The Sunk Cost Fallacy is the notion that once an entity invests in something, it becomes harder to walk away from it.

Sen. Ram Hinsdale urges readiness to house massive numbers of climate refugees.

When have we ever witnessed an awards celebration for electric line workers?

Your future financial wellbeing may not be as bright as you might have hoped for.

Green’s point remains undeniable that low-income Vermonters cannot afford the upfront costs of taking even the most rudimentary clean heat measures.

Both youth patients and their parents are reporting the lack of informed consent in growing testimonies and lawsuits against “gender-affirming” health care. 

Somebody needed to do this because nobody else dared. So thank you, Julie Moore!

The pandemic is over. Unemployment is near an all-time low. The federal funding ends March 31.

I am looking at you, climate warriors in the State House sporting Caribbean tans this week.

Some Vermont teens have their Greta game on.

How’s this for hypocrisy…if you’re burning kerosene in your trailer to keep from freezing in February, you’re part of the problem. But if you need to create just that right ambiance to score with the very special someone you just met in the apres ski bar, fire up that Danforth Pewter oil lamp!

It is time to pull the plug on the Un-Affordable Heat Act.   This bill should die in the House Energy Committee.

I was suicidal, self-harming, and hated myself. The appointment with my gender therapist was only 15 minutes long.  When I walked in, my “letter of recommendation” was already typed up on her computer, and she was filling in my name in minutes.”

Did anyone in the VPA think to include the students of Mid-Vermont Christian School in the discussions around all this? Call me a skeptic but I very much doubt it.

Banning MVCS is the exact opposite of inclusion.

Is Vermont as we have loved it… disappearing?

I have had a clinical nutrition practice in St. Johnsbury for over two decades and I have worked with 68 people struggling with vaccine injury.  The majority of their primary care providers were not familiar with the Health and Human Services’ Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

New name, same train-wreck outcome for the House version of S.5.

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.