The shortform name for this year’s version of last year’s Clean Heat Standard bill is now the brazenly misleading “Affordable Heat Act.”

This is beyond a racket.

Did Tony Fauci foresee almost every detail of the pandemic and pandemic response? Or did he actually help make it happen? Just asking….

One of Vermont’s pre-eminent tech gurus thinks 2023 could be the start of something very, very good for the world.

The logic is simple: criminals want easy victims, they do not want armed adversaries.

The homeless don’t have a home because we, as a society, have not built enough affordable housing, blogger Kevin Ellis warns his fellow Democrats.

The people of the United States elected 432 people to represent them in Congress, yet even before they start their first day at work they are completely controlled, unable to vote their conscience.

Lawsuits are challenging laws that kick parents out of the village regarding their child’s reproductive experiences and choices.

With a veto-proof and disciplined 104-38 majority in the House, the Democrats are eager to pass a renamed “Clean Heat Standard” whether Gov. Phil Scott likes it or not.

We have come a long way from the socks (or was it gloves?) that President Obama sent after Russia’s invasion of Crimea.

“Legislators can fight crime and respond to hate without violating the First Amendment or drafting me into the speech police,” a critic of New York’s new ‘hate speech’ law seeking $1000/day fines says.

What this means for Vermont is that now other high achieving schools, such as Rice Memorial High School (tuition: $12,214) in Burlington and Christ the King (tuition $5,590) in Rutland are available choices for tuitioning students. That’s a good thing.

It appears that I was mistaken in my attack of David Zuckerman, for which I owed him a meeting, and an apology.

Those Drive Electric ads you see with the huckster trying to sell internal combustion to skeptical Vermonters? The real life hucksters were in St. Johnsbury, trying to sell the Clean Heat Standard.

The boy asked, “Is there any hope that my mother and father could be together at my house on Christmas morning? Can you make this happen, Santa?”

The media is not doing their job. They helped create this mess, a former candidate for lieutenant governor says.

Increasingly, American mainstream media clamor against “Christian Nationalism.”

Bernie Sanders says corporate-owned media aren’t doing enough to cover poverty or the climate crisis.

Huge populations supposedly threatened by rising seas are actually facing flooding due to sinking land.

Lincoln’s ‘better angels of our nature’ were absent when the Vermont State Constitution was amended in 1870, 1913, and 2022.

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?

The Big Brains running Big Tech are making Big Mistakes.

Advocates of climate change legislation believe the price of fossil fuel is too low to give Vermonters an economic incentive to switch.

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.

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.

VTDigger’s coverage of the 2022 race for Congress was not a Watergate moment.

Multi-member districts make for appallingly issue-free elections.

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.

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.

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.

Are we going to blame fraud, lies, media bias, advertising, the Russians, or someone else?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.