See clips on our discussion of explosive events since Trump’s inauguration, Balint’s butt-wiping comment, and how we’ve gone from a little blog to making national headlines.

Gaffney, a 2024–2025 New York Times climate desk fellow, has reported on federal environmental policy, sea level rise, and extreme weather for the NYT and other major outlets. Her investigative work has earned national recognition, including the prestigious Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation.

Her stories on corporate corruption won the Wall Street Journal a Pulitzer Prize in 2002, and she was lead reporter in a series on healthcare that was a finalist in 2003.

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.

Every floor and committee meeting of the Vermont Legislature now has an AI-generated transcript, video, and summary. Bookmark THAT, news junkies!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vermont news media outlets are trending non-profit, in part to attract grants from large, out-of-state foundations.

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

“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.

“If you’d like to remove or revise that portion and resubmit, we’ll take another look,” FPF told Koch.

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.

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.

This election season, we will be fearless and we will have fun. Join us!

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.

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.

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.

“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.”

Tune in today to hear a breaking news exclusive on VDC TV ‘Friday at Four’ weekly news program.

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.

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.

“We should know more within 12 hours,” a Verizon boilerplate message says about an inquiry into “potential network disruption” in Barre.

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.