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.

Homeland Security is worried about the public safety threat posed by drones. Tough new legislation needed, its chief says.

Wildcatters who typically drill fast and force prices down have been stymied by pressure against investment in fossil fuels and a hostile regulatory environment.

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. 

Relax, that looming ban on buying a gas-powered car, enacted without a vote by the Legislature, is a mere 12 years away.

Rep. Dr. George Till, baby-deliverer-by-night, legislator and usurper of parental rights by day, apparently also has the gift of prophecy.

“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.

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.

Being a Vermont Republican, I always have to step back and evaluate whether the Republicans in Washington really represent us here in Vermont, but on this issue I think they drafted a plan that any Vermont Republicans could stand on.

Suddenly Becca Balint’s a no-show at Congressional debates.

Bernie Sanders is “oblivious to the reality of the global and domestic energy challenges we face,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Virginia) says.

I was supposed to be born dead, but I miraculously survived. Countless others like me do not. 

About the only people who made money from Vermont’s wind turbines were the developers, who collected money not for selling the power produced, but by soaking up various forms of government subsidies and incentive payments.

I think Balint doesn’t understand that 86% of people is an enormous middle ground—many of whom feel dismayed by the polarized, black-and-white fundamentalism on the extremes.

Roe itself flatly rejected the argument that “the woman’s right is absolute and that she is entitled to terminate her pregnancy at whatever time, in whatever way, and for whatever reason she alone chooses.”

There simply would not be enough gas to keep Europeans warm and run their factories this winter if the US were not shipping huge supplies there.

Vermont’s heavy carbon-emitting marijuana growing industry is getting generous ‘energy efficiency’ subsidies. Thanks, ratepayers!

The rocks thrown at the Hillel Center were just an effort of one friend to get another’s attention.

The title may sound boring, but the Auditor of Accounts is a watchdog against state government dishonesty and inefficiency.

The head of the White House Monkey Pox task force runs a satanic-themed gym and has Satanic images tattooed onto his chest.

In our pain we have pitted autonomy against compassion.

The Vermont Climate Council appears split over whether to inflict the pain on Vermont residents necessary to meet carbon emissions reduction goals.

Not reforming US permitting means leaving Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran supplying critical energy to Europe and exacting an increasing political as well as economic price.

First and foremost, we must protect existing clean sources of power throughout the state.

On average, three mistakes will appear in each set of maternal and paternal chromosomes. Those three mistakes are the drivers of evolution.

The current religion of Western liberals in politics and media is censorship: their prime weapon of activism.

Virtue signaling on the left and the right is just plain lazy.

Call me old fashioned, but perhaps an industry with this much human suffering isn’t in our best interest.

Article 22 would put into the Constitution the right of the State to have the final say on who can and can’t be born.

Money from Washington is like blood to the body.

Freedom for some must not decree death for others.

John McClaughry parses the difference between a democracy and a republic.

In many cases these would-be armed patriots have never attended even one town or county party meeting.

Wokeness in the military is a disincentive for many young Americans in terms of enlistment and siphons off resources needed to defend the country, a former 4-star general says.

“Growing up I was taught to treat the police, the FBI, pharmaceutical companies, banks, and big institutions of almost any kind, with skepticism. It was the same for many liberals. But today – because of Trump and his MAGA followers – we rise to their defense?,” wonders a liberal Vermont blogger.

Becca Balint explicitly claimed never to seek PAC/lobbyist money, but she did meet with the crypto-funded PAC “Protecting Our Future” and others.

People feel like their work lacks meaning, and lacks purpose, says a twenty-something candidate for the Vermont Senate.

The City Mice don’t understand what the Country Mice have known all along: sometimes it takes a community to stop a nuisance dog.

To “use this race to tell Vermonters our election will cure climate change or provide health care for all, etc.” would be disrespectful to the voters, Joe Benning advises Lt. Gov. adversary David Zuckerman.

If the SOS program were enacted, a parent-controlled savings account would be established for each participating child.

The Climate Council, charged by the Legislature to find funding sources for reducing carbon emissions, is now discussing out loud and on the record an “economy-wide” carbon tax. Media interest? Anyone?

The State of Vermont failed to adequately publicize a public hearing on a controversial landfill runoff plan, and then didn’t answer many important questions, a critic of the plan says.

Becca, is my right to personal reproductive liberty supported in my rejection of the Covid injections?

Vermont’s Rip Van Winkle fell asleep after 9/11 and just woke up, to discover the waking nightmare gun violence, drug overdoses, a housing crisis, a pandemic and (apparently) rampant racism in the once-bucolic Green Mountain State.

“Paul Dame failed to inform voters of candidate deception, opting instead to underestimate the consequences of Madden’s bid for office. He has now publicly blamed me and Ericka Redic for his failure, a narrative being perpetuated by media outlets on both the left and right,” Anya Tynio writes.

The stretches made by this shameful “investigation” are truly worth a read by Vermonters, John Klar says. Get a bag of popcorn and settle in.

President Biden’s plan to give away energy-efficient air conditioners may be a relief during heat waves – unless power grid’s increasingly shaky status requires rolling brownouts or blackouts.

All the unborn baby needs is one breath of air and it’s off to the races – a new living, breathing member of the human race.

With terms like sadist, psychopath, and abuser used to describe community members, it is no wonder  that such an event has now occurred twice. The surprise, perhaps, is that it took so long.

Just as parents educated children at home for generations before the modern age, so can parents today. They must exercise confidence and look to themselves and their own knowledge to aid their children. 

Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos urges all Vermonters to plan wisely to participate in what he calls a ‘once in a generation’ primary.

COS backers say Vermont lawmakers are terrified by an Article V Convention of States to set term limits, stop irresponsible spending, and reduce government overreach.

To force a Big Pharma product on an individual goes against the entire basis of our country’s existing social contract.