Vermont has chosen to spend heavily on climate mitigation, with more than a quarter-billion dollars in state funds committed over just a few years. Meanwhile, as the toll of overdoses continues to outpace weather-related deaths by a factor of nearly 100 to 1, a contrast likely to grow harder for policymakers—and taxpayers—to ignore.
It’s strange behavior for people who claim to want a society that’s “indivisible” and who constantly profess that they’re all for “community.”
South Carolina Judge latest to dismiss lawsuit similar to Vermont’s.
Globalists from King George the 3rd to George Soros have always fought hard against such a government, which in Vermont every 2 years, parties set the stage with organizational town committee meetings.
On paper, Vermont’s tax burden appears moderate: according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), the combined state and local tax burden ranges from 6.3% for the wealthiest households to 10.6% for the lowest-income earners. But when actual Vermonters break down their paychecks and monthly bills, the numbers often feel much higher—sometimes pushing into the 30–40% range before factoring in basic living costs like housing, fuel, and food.
Objections are coming primarily from rural districts, which tend to lean Republican and where a lot of freshman Republicans will be running for re-election for the first time next November.
The House drafts a bill that riles up MAHA moms and environmental advocates.
Marks favored Pfizer over American children’s health.
Their sense of entitlement without accountability is a proven governing failure.
Vermont, New York, and Maine have the progressive disease for which clean elections, blogs like this, and persistence are the only cure.
In New England and New York, where about 40% of voters voted for Trump, Republican members of Congress are quite rare due to gerrymandering.
“The detractors list two main bullet points, both of which I contend are at least misleading and at worst downright falsehoods,” Dame said.
At issue is Microsoft’s “using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary.”
Together, we can build a stronger Republican Party for Vermont.
Free speech violation by Trump, or unconstitutional discrimination by Harvard?
And if we’re serious about public safety, criminal justice reform, and race relations, then we need to be honest about what the numbers show — even when they don’t conform to political narratives.
How particulate pollution from tires is worse than from tailpipes, and why this matters.
Vermont is home to five active and distinct political identities: Vermont Democrats, Vermont Progressives, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Vermont Republicans, and Vermont Libertarians.
These women are the future of the country
In a world obsessed with the new and the unanchored, Vermont’s greatest strength has always been its rootedness, its barns and mountains, its churches and fields, its people, and their stories. When we erase these from our icons and our celebrations, we risk losing not just the images, but the spirit they represent.
The larger question many conservatives, and also non-conservatives, are unwilling to let go is, given Epstein’s obvious connections to the intelligence community who are known to have heightened awareness of who they associate with, what are we to believe about who he was and what he was doing?
In the July issue of VermontBiz magazine, reporter Olga Peters metaphorically describes the economy of northwestern Vermont: “Chittenden County stands as the undeniable engine of the state’s economy, generating a disproportionate share of its jobs, wages, and income tax revenues.”
The Dignity Act and the Big Beautiful Bill collide.
Taxpayers and students are being ripped off, and no one is being held accountable.
Vermont educators were teaching the historical record—while their union’s national leadership was busy diluting it.
We walk them. We build them. We shovel them. We drive through them in battered pickups with a plow blade strapped to the front and a tired dog in the back. But we don’t dance in them. Not like they do in the cities we never asked to become.
“Many Trump supporters are unwilling to see through all the white noise coming from their selected media sources. They have found solace and comfort with a narrow window of information, which for many of us, is easier to understand.”
How about Vermont, and what other useless programs can we scrap?
In China we have a saying: “Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.” Both Vermont and China are pushing hard for green growth, and that gives us so much room to dream big together.
I can only imagine what Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Biden are thinking when they witness the direction the Democratic Party has taken in 2025–to the left of socialism.
The passing of a journalistic giant.
Has Sunil Eappen, the president of the system they govern, so cowed his board of trustees that they’re unable to fulfill their legal obligation to hold his administration accountable?
This week the online news outlet VT Digger hosted an event in Brookfield titled, “In Facts We Trust: Local Journalism in the ‘Fake News’ Era.” They described it thus, “In an era of misinformation, how do we know the news we’re seeing is accurate? Let’s talk about it together.” VT Digger, are you joking?
The jury is still out as long-term studies await…
A launch of the amazing MAHA initiative, called MAHA Action, will be celebrated on July 21 at the Ned nightclub in Washington, DC.
Over the past decade, we’ve grown ever more concerned about dubious strains of social-justice advocacy infiltrating medicine. Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, doctors’ pursuit of social reform coalesced, almost overnight, into a mission.
Part 4 in 4-part series, ‘Mutilation or Healthcare?’
Is this payback or just doing their job?
Whither goes Elon next?
Every year, thousands of people disappear while attempting to cross borders or while living without legal documentation in the United States. These disappearances represent more than statistics—they are families torn apart, communities left searching for answers, and lives lost to a system that often fails to protect the most vulnerable.
Across campuses and corporations, DEI is retreating into rebranded titles and euphemistic jargon, but its ideology remains intact.
This move from local to regional control is supposed to be more streamlined and efficient. But let’s think about this…
Can dogs hear beyond deafness? A Vermont farmer-coder thinks so—and he’s asking for your help.
Part 3 in 4-part series, ‘Mutilation or Healthcare?’
These outdated trapping and hunting policies do not reflect the majority of the people. Protect Our Wildlife focuses on securing stronger protections for individual wild animals, recognizing that they feel happiness, pain, fear, sadness, and so much more.
America doesn’t need a third political party.
It needs a controlled demolition.
New Hampshire ruling kicks the issue back to the Supremes.
This ‘healthcare’ business may be a welcome revenue stream for health clinics often struggling and seeking financial assistance. ‘Gender affirming care’ is quite possibly a golden ticket as the number of youth and young adults seeking ‘treatment’ has increased.
A statute can only stand if it fits within the Constitution. If it doesn’t, it must either be overturned in court, or the Constitution must be amended first. That is the proper process for changing how a government operates.
While that’s great news for business, it isn’t so great for locals or the environment, which can withstand the impact of overcrowding, pollution, and traffic during peak months.
With coupons for testosterone, minds molded by heavily monetized influencers, a false sense of belonging and support from online chatrooms dominated by questionable facilitators, impressionable, vulnerable youth sacrifice their minds and bodies for mutilation falsely labeled as healthcare.
The robberies occurred on May 19th at 8:23 AM, June 11th at 8:38 AM, and July 6th at 7:51 AM. All three incidents took place at Jake’s ONE Market located at 242 N Winooski Ave in Burlington.
Using hateful, divisive, dehumanizing, and revenge-laced language like “dumb,” “animals,” “people with bad genes,” “rapists,” “criminals,” and “left-wing Marxists” to describe Democrats, citizens and non-citizens who oppose the President’s actions, inciting anger and giving MAGA supporters license to attack Americans with differing opinions.
Our ancestors built covered bridges and stone foundations that lasted centuries. Today’s challenge is no different – to ensure the infrastructure we are currently building lasts, we must build for the climate we’re inheriting, not the one we’ve lost.
It’s a matter of choice.
That’s us—America—riddled with ideological trench lines and carpet-bombed by generations of political theater.
Why celebrate this “separate but equal” policy?
A growing discrepancy over content standards
With an increase in political violence across the nation, one worries what could happen in Vermont. Do our legislators need more security? Are our public officials at risk of attack? Support for political violence has recently surged amongst Democrats.
It is no surprise, then, that the Conservation Law Foundation, which is proficient in bringing lawsuits, has taken the state up on its offer.
The One Big Beautiful Bill isn’t a war between billionaires and the poor. It’s a reckoning with a state that’s too big headed to succeed and too entrenched to change—until we stop rewarding failure with more funding and start demanding accountability instead of performative outrage.
What schools must disclose in 2025 (and why Vermont isn’t all there yet)
Employees can opt-out of the program but have to actively do so after being forcibly enrolled.
The crisis facing Vermont’s education had its genesis, not 30 years ago but 50-plus years ago.
Controversial GE chestnut tree under review for USDA approval.
The darkness and chilling long winter of the pro-death culture is retreating.
Ohavi Zedek Synagogue officials have a new cover story for ousting Aaron Philmus.
Political satire song lampoons Vermont congresswoman who says on the floor of the U.S. House that ICE agents are ‘vigilantes’ who ‘kidnap’ their immigrant targets.
But no clue where the money will come from?
Balint owes the family of slain Vermonter and Border Patrol agent David Maland an apology.
“If we don’t plow the streets and fix the roads, the people aren’t going to put up with this socialism s—.” – John Franco, ex-aide to socialist Bernie Sanders
Former Burlington school superintendent was one of Iran’s U.S. hostages in 1979
Big city sponsors face off against rural dairies.
Many people seem genuinely shocked when the law is enforced as written. But that kind of surprise often stems from not understanding the rules in the first place. And in the United States, those rules are defined by constitutions — at both the federal and state level.
Republicans may have just been tricked into setting themselves up for defeat in 2026.
The real history of U.S. Immigration Enforcement
The protesters were appalled by Trump and Mr. Livingston was appalled by the sign. BOTH have the right to express it.
Woke Vermonters attempt to entice Canadians with a feeble overture meant to whitewash years of poor, Marxist management that increased crime and decreased economic vitality.
Rep. Becca Balint took to Facebook recently and warned that VA doctors can now refuse care to Democrats — a claim that must have caused fear and concern to her Vermont constituents and veterans. But the troubling part isn’t just the claim itself: it’s that a sitting member of Congress, with access to primary documents and official statements, fell for a debunked narrative without pausing to verify the facts.
Border-crossings plummet, public approval rockets.
Originally released Tuesday, January 1, 2002: What does it mean for a state to have One Big School System? For the answer to that, look at the only state that actually has one, Hawaii.
Contrary to discussions or opinions, it does not save money.
The conversation in Montpelier has shifted from deciding which taxes to increase on already overburdened Vermonters, to deciding where we can actually provide tax relief and reduce costs.
A controversial Burlington, Vermont, food distribution center run by self-avowed Marxist anarchists is set to be relocated due to business complaints of increasing crime and declining commerce. Progressive Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak still gave it $10k more.
Having two schools of thought is a good thing. This is when we’re supposed to meet at the table and actually talk. But that’s no longer happening. It’s gotten violent. We’re watching it play out across the country.
Mine is not a left-wing voice of animal rights idealism or return-to-the-land idyllicism. This is just plain old real science.
Vermont officials condemn agents who hide their faces — but not protesters
Let’s set aside the anger, refocus on the real challenges facing our state, and come together to restore the Vermont we know and love.
There have been so many more “firsts” during my lifetime, and undoubtedly there will be many more to come. Will the Town of Arlington ever develop a wastewater system that can replace the failing septic systems that now exist? What a “first” this would be.
I am writing this, because as important as it is to oppose the desecration of our democracy currently underway, it is equally important to imagine the world we want.
AR-15 rifles will return to fight another day.
Members of Scott Administration call out Climate Council for “misleading” the public.
Celebrate our flag and nation, and the rule of law!
Attorney General Charity Clark gaslighted individuals challenging her failure to uphold federal laws regarding Title IX, parental rights, and immigration during a community forum held in Essex on Monday, June 2, to discuss The Impact of Federal Actions on Vermont.
The federal enforcement actions in Los Angeles, while politically contentious, appear to fall within existing legal frameworks. The heated reactions from Vermont’s congressional delegation reflect growing national divisions over immigration policy, but have also sparked debate over the treatment of federal employees and the responsibilities of lawmakers.
If pants literally caught fire when people lied, there would be no back-ends to wipe among the elected officials who participated in this “policy” forum.
Fortunately, the hate cult is waning in the face of truth.
Girls are being offered double mastectomies before their first kiss. How is that conversion therapy?
Civil lawsuits can supplement LA cops, Natl Guard, and exhortations
They are trying hard to sell their victim mentality mindset with gas-lighting, spin and Trump-hating to whomever will believe their distortions and lies.
