Myers Mermel has proposed a 10% hospitality tax on out-of-state skiers in Vermont to subsidize lift tickets for Vermonters.
Myers Mermel has proposed a 10% hospitality tax on out-of-state skiers in Vermont to subsidize lift tickets for Vermonters.
For many investors in public and private companies, Ernst & Young was one of the last bastions of trust.
In Burlington, so-called progressive reforms have sprung up only to backfire on neighbors and harm the most vulnerable in our community.
It started when I refused to use the preferred pronouns of my second grade teacher.
No secret why media and Democrats aren’t talking about the economy this year.
Winter 2022 is coming, and these children of the green energy summer are not prepared.
My big problem is Biden’s declaration that “we can’t allow an out of control Supreme Court….” Oh? Who is this “we”?
There isn’t some group of mysterious boogeymen with waxed mustaches plotting our demise.
We must be a brave, little state, because as public health and human rights are trampled here and elsewhere, others are studying our example as they perhaps never have before,” says the head of VBSR.
I can’t see why using a mailbox rather than a drop box causes a hardship to any would-be voter, especially in urban areas.
Proposed initiatives to produce a healthy, diverse, and resilient agricultural ecosystem will require $90 million over five years.
If you’re dumb enough to think Jeffrey Epstein killed himself but smart enough to keep your mouth shut lest you get Arkancided, you have a serious future as a useful idiot.
The possibility of two former Montpelier mayors representing Washington County as state senators while Barre has none strikes me as fundamentally unfair and wrong.
Parents are being kicked out of the village regarding their children’s reproductive values and experiences.
Children who are different are often bullied, ignored, or punished in government schools.
The number of semi-auto rifles (like the AR-15 and others acquired since 1994 has increased from 400,000 to 20 million.
We as neighbors can finally work together to address the tragedy of unwanted pregnancies in a humane, and more effective, way.
A righty New Hampshire observer says the lefties are vandalizing the Vermont State House because of years of Democrat rule, Democrat control of media, and Democrat control of education and culture.”
Germany shouldn’t have shut down its nukes, but it did – and became even more dependent on Russian natural gas for generating electricity.
Just to make the fight fair.
Biden is committed to putting oil refineries out of business.
Republicans stand an excellent chance of winning this coming November, because for years the Democratic party has been hemorrhaging support from the white working class and is now losing support from Latino, Black and Asian workers as well.
A picture emerges of certain types of people at the control of the communist engine, starting with its authors and culminating with its executors.
Current and former state senators have been silent about the Night of Shattered Glass at the Vermont State House.
Biden’s plea for peacefulness was lost on the Big Blue Rage Machine the Democrats have been operating.
For most people abortions are last choice options, and I would argue that the reason we see most abortions happening among disadvantaged communities is because these are our neighbors with the least amount of choice.
Even the late, pro-choice Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Roe V. Wade was not just and should not have been issued.
The Republican National Committee is taking credit for the court defeat of non-citizen voting in New York City.
Last week’s decision moves much closer to a Vermont state requirement that all parents – not just tuition town parents – must be given their choice of approved public schools, non-sectarian independent schools, and sectarian independent schools.
The knee-jerk reaction that we need Prop 5/Article 22 in response to the Dobbs decision is based on very misleading information about a radical position.
Ethan Allen fought for Vermont to become the 14th State believing the Union would better protect individual liberty, but that noise you hear is a dog-headed saber rattling in its scabbard.
This week the Supreme Court set a major and exciting precedent by striking down over 100 years of New York law when they found that New York’s pattern of restricting gun rights to its innocent and law-abiding citizens was unconstitutional.
These experimental injections do not prevent Covid or transmission of Covid, so vaccinating a child will not save an at-risk family member.
Out of nowhere appeared a towering and tattooed figure wearing what looked like a yarmulke fashioned from a water buffalo.
Advocates might claim some progress in producing neurotic reactions in teenage Swedish girls and 60-something New York architects.
Protecting children is expensive, but worth the cost.
As we say at Bananas Academy, you don’t have that highly evolved monkey brain for nothing, it’s made for Bananas!
June 19th is a day for promises made and promises kept.
Farming and support for agriculture was well represented under the Golden Dome this year, Vermont’s chief executive for agriculture says.
Because of his government power, Lysenko had power over both Russia’s agricultural practices and the scientists who might speak out against him. This would prove to be disastrous for both.
With such a massive change in leadership and members about to occur, maybe it is time to rethink how the Legislature is elected, operates, and is compensated.
President Biden and Congress have turned a blind eye to fast-emerging trust fund deficits.
Gregory FitzGerald admits he strangled his wife to death in 1993. He was sentenced to life without parole. But due to some apparent courtroom errors, he may soon go free.
Even if you drive a Tesla and aren’t feeling the pain at your own pump, you can be sure that those costs are still making its way to you through every Amazon delivery truck that still runs in diesel.
For years Vermont’s climate change warriors have urged driving up oil and natural gas prices to force consumers to weatherize, and switch to alternatives such as “cold climate heat pumps” and advanced wood pellet furnaces.
In his gushing over VTDigger, Walters neglects to mention the most positive media development of the past few years: the inception of conservative media in Vermont.
A capacity for local food production means that when times get tough, Vermont will have affordable nourishing food and will limit hunger in our communities.
Elected prosecutors have a major role to play in holding police accountable for misconduct. That can include pressing criminal charges when police abuse their power and violate civil rights – something prosecutors rarely elect to do.
Replacing fossil fuels with environmentally-unfriendly biofuels, without clear limits, would have created serious problems.
When it’s just plain dangerous to shut down nuclear power plants, baby formula factories, and schools “due to an abundance of caution.”
Considering that shootings have also taken place at many locations outside of schools, I wish to encourage law abiding citizens to become proficient with firearms and to carry them whenever possible.
I got to thinking, the level of Lake Champlain varies by six feet over the course of each year, and that’s been going on since Champlain first visited here in 1609.
Democrats act as if the solution to school shootings is to either take some guns away from all people, or take all guns away from some people.
DEF is an emissions control liquid required by the EPA in diesel engines manufactured after 2010 as an “aftertreatment technology” to reduce vehicle emissions.
Although advocates of Proposal 5 often cite respect for Roe v. Wade as a rallying cry, what they are calling for is, instead, a radical departure from that Supreme Court precedent.
I am writing to seek help with my dog who has been revealing himself to be a bigoted, racist, transphobic, bully, and I don’t know what to do.
Why was Sen. Patrick Leahy at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos last month?
It’s easy to advocate for things that prove you’re on the “right side,” even when what we should be doing is telling more complex stories.
Ms. Jankowicz is a voluble and sharp tongued 33 year old social media activist from the nether regions of the Democratic Party, eager to wield the hammer of the Biden Ministry of Truth.
The only thing using the wrong tool of the Clean Heat Standard would accomplish would be to drive a substantial portion of our population into financial distress.
For the benefit of the institution of a citizen legislature, please accept the temporary financial discomfort, serve your time honorably, and then go back to gainful employment as thousands of legislators past and present have done.
Many of the modern pharmaceutical drugs used to treat these specific conditions carry warnings that people taking them may experience suicidal or homicidal thoughts.
Justice Alito noted especially, among the cases overturned, the notorious Plessy v. Ferguson decision (1896) that upheld racial segregation on railroad coaches.
Could fascism be stealth – hidden in plain sight, sold to the people by offering protection, security, services, justice and aid?
The WEF meeting began to fill with the A-list of the super-rich, so elite you won’t find their numbers in the Yellow Pages because they exchange them in their little black books on Epstein Island.
The many organizers behind the Clean Heat Standard are intelligent, committed to the doctrine of climate change, and have substantial in-state and out-of-state financial resources.
As far as the chances of dying in a mass public shooting, the US stacks up favorably vs. most European countries. Our rate still falls in the bottom half.
Banning assault weapons won’t do much more than tick off conservatives.
With governmental violence what it is, arming up is the very wisest thing the people can do.
Vermont’s EV car program is supported regressively by diverting tax dollars from low-income Vermonters to finance fancy “planet-saving” cars that no regular Vermonter could afford until it is ready for the junk yard.
The Senate must end the filibuster, then expand background checks and waiting periods for people who do not pass a background check.
The ‘gun violence epidemic’ parallels the obesity epidemic, the drug abuse epidemic, and is a direct reflection of the entitled, cynical, and nihilistic view held by a large chunk of Americans.
We are rolling the dice every day the schools are not protected.
Unlike the West Coast city I grew up in, I learned gunshots in Vermont meant someone was either practicing or putting food on the table.
The leading study on the effectiveness of the 1994 ban stated: “In general we found, really, very, very little evidence, almost none, that gun violence was becoming less lethal and less injurious during this time frame. So on the balance, we concluded that the ban had not had a discernible impact on gun crime during the years it was in effect.”
The Clean Heat Standard is like raising taxes on sugary beverages: taxing the poor to change purchasing behaviors.
The good news is that state courts this year have reversed some egregious gerrymanders.
Schools can prohibit foul language, but any child can see that this language is simply not foul.
Jim Sexton: “More people who self-identify as Republican, then vote for and support the left/far left agenda has nothing to do with more Republicans in the Statehouse.”
California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, via executive order is dictating what Vermont vehicle consumers can and cannot buy, if we go along, but we don’t have to.
Fake news reporter Johnny Bananas says the story of the demise of formulating babies is greatly exaggerated.
There is no simple “the science” according to which a leader can govern.
This is a partisan government office created to pass judgment on any speech that might diminish support for the Biden Administration’s program and performance.
Tyranny is tyranny, and the only solution to stopping or escaping it is universal school choice.
Governor Phil Scott promulgates a perception of Prop 5/Article 22 that is not based in reality.
In Vermont, we have many young people, perhaps upwards of 20,000 or more, who are disengaged from a workforce that reportedly has over 26,000 open positions.
Last month, Welch put out a statement on his official congressional website stating “It’s long past time we created a dedicated government agency to regulate and address the wide range of issues raised by social media platforms…That’s why I am working on legislation to create a federal agency to do just that.”
Elected officials issue press releases about mass shootings in other states as Vermont’s drug violence grows and our police leave.
Thoughts on powerhouse Patricia Posner commentary on the erasure of the feminine lexicon.
Whether you’re fighting Russians in an Eastern European country devoid of working power lines or just RV’ing in low-cell country, Tom Evslin says his favorite LEO satellite system might be just the thing.
If a serving state senator doesn’t know what Article 22/Proposal 5 is – not even its name and general intent let alone its potential impact – how well informed do you think the average voter is?
Humility will be required to admit that the Global Warming Solutions Act is a failure; courage will be required to repeal it.
Sen. Bernie Sanders wants a national law supporting legal abortion and he’s willing to waive the filbuster to get it.
The school mascot bill is all about cowering to ‘woke’ parents.
Howard Dean doesn’t trust Elon Musk to handle Twitter fairly because he’s full of craziness and hate.
The Vermont House listened to the science and not the dependency-pushing Big Marijuana industry when it kept THC caps on legal retail marijuana.
H.715 misrepresents the word “Clean”. 350vt’s analysis of H.715 shows that more than 50% of it will be met by biofuels. The biofuel marketplace is exploding globally, trading the damaging effects of fossil fuels for the damaging effects of biofuel production.
The Vermont Legislature recently passed a long-sought ethics law.
Not often a Northeast Kingdom Republican defends a Chittenden County Democrat.
Don Keelan explains why housing is scarce and new housing almost non-existent in Vermont.