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.

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.”