Most witnesses have supported the bill, but a few concerns have come up about free speech and news media’s liabilities.
Most witnesses have supported the bill, but a few concerns have come up about free speech and news media’s liabilities.
According to a February 2025 article on Vermont Public, losing this 10% could mean cuts to local journalism or educational programs, with rural stations hit hardest.
The Anarchist and the Republican both championed the decentralization of power.
We are all teachers and students simultaneously. Lifelong learners in the most technical sense.
“People that are gonna be watching this and hearing about this, could be taken as supporting a terrorist organization,” Rep. Zachary Harvey warned.
SANDERS: No, you want to do nonsense. Do nonsense.
Every floor and committee meeting of the Vermont Legislature now has an AI-generated transcript, video, and summary. Bookmark THAT, news junkies!
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“I would like to see a public apology from Vermont Senate and House Democrats for mischaracterizing our event as an attack on the transgender community,” Rene McGuinness said.
Public servants’ lives are the stakes
Troopers determined that Benoit was at fault for failing to yield the right of way to Moats before crossing the highway.
Demanding Bobby Kennedy cancels others’ messaging is absurd!
The left has news blind spots. The right has them too. “Blindspot” opens everyone’s eyes, every day.
Ingalls, owner of All Seasons Realty, and Green Mountain Broadcasters LLC have purchased Vermont Broadcast Associates from Bruce James.
Despite Trump’s possible conditional support, TikTok plans to shut down its app nationwide on Sunday unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes.
Paul and Guy will issue breaking news on the Clean Heat Standard.
At 11:30AM Guy and John Klar will discuss the Alliance for Defending Freedom opening a VT office.
Woodstock residents are not being permitted to read the investigative report they are paying for concerning management concerns within the village PD.
VDC and many other news organizations, advocacy groups, and interested citizens now have a clear, searchable, timely transcript of legislative committee meetings, courtesy of One of Vermont’s most accomplished high tech wizards.
Democracy is many things. One of those things is delicate. May we never live in a society where we believe that either violence or despair are the only options.
Generally, folks are upset but not surprised. Some are ready to take this media to the City Council.
Miller’s reputation was still lingering in the halls of U-32 as students and teachers who knew his work spoke admiringly of him for years to follow.
His latest video shows a new police officer and a citizen gazing at blood stains and a needle cap on a sidewalk. “The police officer did not seem to be too fazed by it,” Poitras notes on camera.
So, what’s next? Listen and call in at 11 AM today on Common Sense Radio.
A Washington County Senate candidate, stymied by Front Porch Forum censorship, now uses another neighbor-to-neighbor social media platform.
Vermont news media outlets are trending non-profit, in part to attract grants from large, out-of-state foundations.
The national spotlight is focused on the City That Gave Bernie His Start.
“They asked if we would ban assault weapons,” Rodgers said. “In my mind an AR-15 semi automatic is not an assault weapon. I own several of them and would not support a ban on their sale.”
Vermonters abhor a vacuous news media that won’t ask tough questions about Vermont’s ever-growing taxes, failing schools, housing crisis, civil rights infringement, faux environmentalism, and legislative tone-deafness to all of these problems
Without my knowledge or consent the editors at the paper substantially re-wrote my piece and published it under my name, which is, I believe, highly unethical. It is certainly dishonest.
Why was O’Keefe prevented by a state trooper from approaching Robert Garcia’s home? Should Vermont’s status as a Sanctuary State affect VSP intervening on behalf of the Border Patrol?
To watch this story develop from the beginning to what it has become is incredible. The work we are doing is truly having an impact, and I think that’s all we could ever ask for.
The other day, I finally succumbed to Fear Of Missing Out and saw Matt Walsh’s Am I Racist? in the theater.
“The [pedophiles] are crying ‘discrimination’ against themselves as a poor, despised minority,” Disaffected said.
“Mr. O’Keefe was in possession of a microphone and the other individuals appeared to be recording the encounter,” state police say.
Dismayed by the lack of media coverage, Rob vowed “to pay as close attention to this as humanly possible. I want to understand it and I want to make other people understand what’s happening with these energy policies.”
“If you’d like to remove or revise that portion and resubmit, we’ll take another look,” FPF told Koch.
The nation’s oldest college newspaper was robbed big-time by its office manager.
Clean Heat Standard Supporters don’t want to see any headlines about its potential cost, at least not before November 5. But that won’t stop us, because we believe that sacred cows make good hamburger.
The case emerged from Grafton County where Hanover High School, in 2021, told parents that it was planning on “significant curricular changes” around “anti-racisim” and “equity.”
It is unfortunate that many current reporters are just stenographers – just spitting back out what they are told with no pushback or questions about the self-serving spin they are fed.
Hot phone news, fresh off the wire from the Journal-Opinion.
Senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Facebook teams to suppress COVID-19 content that the platform otherwise would not have restricted.
Vermont courts need a “public is public” model whereby any record publicly available at a courthouse is available online unless prohibited by law.
When a South Carolina man skinny-dips in front of two uncomfortable women, a reporter decides to get involved. And Elon Musk and Jesus.
VDC-TV’s first ever live election night coverage. Looking forward to the General Election November 5.
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Bought a copy and, reading it, quickly realized why he had stopped.
The defamation suit that Nina Jankowicz, former dir. of Homeland Sec.’s disinformation board, filed against Fox News was dismissed in DE, July 22.
Be like Abby.
FPF said Crosby was engaging in a ‘personal attack’ when she suggested meritocracy as an alternative to DEI in schools.
General Michael Flynn will hold a live Q & A with the audience at the documentary movie “Flynn,” which will be shown 4 PM, August 3 at Ignite Church in Williston.
First study on the health effects of Taylor Swift’s celebrity finds an overall positive influence on fans’ attitudes on body image and disordered eating
An icon of whistleblower journalism tastes freedom.
No, a 14% property tax increase is not a decrease.
All in all, the real winner of the debate was not Trump or Biden, but it was CNN.
Help is on the way to Vermont’s financially strapped local news media. Whether the shekels come with shackles remains to be seen.
VCF has ties to out-of-state interests, and both historically and currently favors far-Left media.
As government-funded internet ends, Burlington company fills gap
Mulvaney-Stanak and her office has refused to return phone calls to local media members and ignored them when they meet up with her at public events.
A promising approach uses local philanthropy and know-how to offer trustworthy coverage not driven by fashionable political trends.
Plattergate? Reddit readers are eating it up, and dishing it out.
The “New York Child Data Protection Act” was approved by the NY State Legislature on Friday.
The app Fizz has now been banned from use at the school. The whole scandal caught the attention of national media. “Anonymity and youth, what could go wrong?”
Building enough solar generation to meet the state’s energy goals will result in deforestation and loss of farmland, Bill Huff and Mike Tagliavia said during a co-production of two popular Vermont media.
“Defending Motherhood is not bigoted”
Will national mea culpas from Uri Berliner and Nellie Bowles be followed by anyone at, say, VTDigger?
He has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $5,000 for equipment costs, locations rental, and wages for the cast and crew.
Sunita Dholakia, of Rutland, is one of 114 finalists competing in Haut Monde Mrs. India Worldwide, an annual beauty pageant for married Indian women across the globe.
“I wish the Vermont liberal media was a little more self aware of how little it does in promoting diverse views and engaging in serious discussion of the problems we all face instead of its current ideological bashing of viewpoints it disapproves of. But in the end it is just a reflection of the larger media environment that it tries to emulate,” Chelsea Green Publisher Emeritus Margo Baldwin said.
“Legislators do not have the right to steal the budget process,” said one social media commenter. “Stop spending like there is no end.”
How social media and online news algorithms fuel extremism across the political spectrum
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Did a popular columnist misquote a Burlington legislator? Or are some lawmakers getting touchy about their taxation voting record? You decide.
“When I go home, a lot of times what I’m doing is studying Scripture, getting into the Word of God, trying to understand it better. And I feel like God’s been preparing me for an opportunity,” Kittell said.
The era of “equal time” in the media is long gone.
Christian school banned from competitions; Fired snowboard coach wins lawsuit; WCAX takes down report
Baruth tells senators to ignore voters and dictates to media how to report.
Join VDC for a live, interactive review of 2024 Town Meeting results at 8:30 PM tonight.
See ‘n share this brief reel of Rob Roper’s riff on the intentional complexity of Vermont school funding.
Rob Roper says the exorbitant cost of public education isn’t a bug in the Legislature’s funding system, it’s a feature.
MVCS Coach Chris Goodwin and attorney Ryan Tucker were interviewed on Fox. Jones first turned his attention to a statement put out by the state on the matter.
“We should know more within 12 hours,” a Verizon boilerplate message says about an inquiry into “potential network disruption” in Barre.
The Vermont scenes, as depicted in Vermont Magazine and other tourist outlets, are being usurped, and our Legislative leaders need to stop their denial until the scourge is eradicated.
A woman who says she was banned from the local social media website Front Porch Forum is voicing her concerns over alleged censorship and political bias.
There’s a reason the “He Gets Us” commercial didn’t show a liberal washing the feet of someone in a MAGA hat, or a BLM protestor washing an officer’s feet. That would’ve been actually subversive.
Biden administration deems its detractors, Conservatives “vulnerable to disinformation methods”.
Buckle up as Kevin Sorbo, Barry Bostwick, Jon Lovitz and Emmanuelle Vaugier star in new comedy ‘Potwins’ TV Show on X Platform
Stewart Ledbetter is a rare breed of reporter.
‘Free thinker?’ Guilty as charged, says Paul Bean of the accusation made against him by the executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party.
Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen signed a form, required under Vermont law, that Lynda Bluestein of Connecticut was in a clear state of mind when she made the decision to end her life.
“Can you imagine being called names daily because of the color of your skin? I can’t. I can not place myself in these children’s shoes,” a Milton mother says.
Former Senate candidate and EAI prez buys community radio station chain.
“On the left, they’re trying to weaponize food. They’re saying it’s all about equity,” Klar tells Stuckey. “They’re saying it’s all about cows, and then climate change comes in. But in the end, people need to eat.”
It comes as no surprise that by far the most gifted and prolific living essayist on the subject of Vermont liberty would use a railroad double-entendre to announce the conclusion of 30 years of bi-weekly commentaries.
The newspaper, founded in 1889, has overcome some daunting challenges in the past few years, It lost 90% of its advertising revenue at the outset of COVID-19 and suspended its print edition.
VDC readers are confirming the totalitarian nature of Front Porch Forum (FPF), couched in the guise of a so-called Public Benefit Corporation.
VTDigger no longer bothering to hide the bias! Gaye Symington is made the new president of the organization.
Penn’s policies have been guided by the Constitution and the law – but that’s about to change, the university president said.
Intelligence agencies changed their focus from working together to counter terrorism to countering populism, which spread via social media and resulted in the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.
On Facebook, Vermont union leader David Van Deusen blames “rightwing extremists” for the attack on the three Palestinian men.