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.

“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.

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.

On Facebook, Vermont union leader David Van Deusen blames “rightwing extremists” for the attack on the three Palestinian men.

“The Squiers and staff created something really special in WDEV. They somehow made all of us listeners feel like we were part of something bigger. They created a connection that has often comforted the community as much as it informed.”

Right Side Up relates local issues to the larger national issues – the national border crisis, for example.

Granite Grok founder Skip Murphy started it as a blog, only to see it grow in popularity. It is now the most read conservative publication in New Hampshire with many millions of views and readers from around the globe.

“What a gross double standard you operate by!,” Green tells FPF. “You’ll gladly publish postings which you agree with, but you somehow almost always find reasons to censor mine.”

In yet another potential double standard, the popular local social media company Front Porch Forum is choosing favorites when running ads for political forums.

The Long Emergency documentary film addresses what producers believe is a looming energy crisis featuring author and social critic James Howard Kunstler.

While emphasizing that cost increases in many areas led to his decision, Publisher Greg Lamoureux holds the new .44% payroll tax partly responsible. 

Starting today, Facebook and Instagram, Meta’s prominent platforms, are restricting Canadian users from viewing or sharing news links, along with broadcaster videos and photos.

One-day October conference refused ad space on Front Porch Forum, a public platform that claims to “help neighbors connect.”

An anti-child trafficking movie shunned by the media elite and denied distribution for five years is the top grossing film in America.

“Sound of Freedom” is based on the true story of former United States government agent Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad, a nonprofit that fights against child sex slavery.

“If we’re going to lower the temperature of our politics, we have to lower the stakes of politics. Politics permeates absolutely too much,” George Will said.

Despathy is perhaps Vermont’s most outspoken opponent of the hypocrisy of equity advocates supporting S.5, the climate reduction bill that adversely punishes poor rural Vermonters and rewards a renewable energy industry benefiting from horrific third world mining of essential metals. 

Culture commentator Jordan Peterson saw the news about a Quechee girls team forfeiting against a team with a 6’4″ trans center, and tweeted “it’s about time” to his 3.7 million followers.

Let us see all the EB-5 records, a Vermont media organization today asked the Vermont Supreme Court.

A Vermont news service wrote a ‘just the facts, ma’am’ report on a court clearing a St. Albans police officer of assault charges. His defense lawyer, however, had more to say.

McKibben’s New Yorker essay ignores geoengineering’s long history, its differing covert and overt purposes, and its profoundly dysfunctional use as a dangerous mechanism for “climate control.”

Guy Page, editor of Vermont Daily Chronicle, will be a guest in studio at 8:05 AM Friday on WVMT’s Morning Drive with Kurt and Anthony.Callers are welcome, call 1-888-414-0303.

The explanation: “YouTube doesn’t allow claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization.”

Many Vermonters, even those born and raised here, have never visited either Island Pond or Stratton Mountain. As their live webcams show, there’s a lot to see and do there.

A Vermont video news website has published a single link with three years of reporting on vaccine and mask freedom.

The red lines on the map show where drivers found no cell service at all. Very few of them are in populous Chittenden County.

A WWII paratrooper changed how America experienced television.

Let this be a lesson to you all, a trans advocacy group warns.

Mainstream news coverage of the locker room conflict since the now-deleted WCAX report has essentially ‘flipped the script’ or ignored the story.

With the ACLU’s help, the parent organization of a Vermont online newspaper is suing the State of Vermont for hiding info about the EB-5 scandal in the Northeast Kingdom.

Tune in to WDEV 9-11 AM Tuesday for Vermont Viewpoint guest-host Guy Page and guests Kevin Ellis, Brad Broyles, Cindy Tabor and Maggie Kerrin.

“Liam who?” on August 1 became well-known – if not universally admired – by the day after the August 9 primary.

“We have what, 330 million people in the country, and I believe we only had 19 million watching,” Gov. Phil Scott said of live coverage of the House investigation into the events of Jan. 6.

Thirteen years after starting her entrepreneurial tour de force, VTDigger founder Anne Galloway is stepping back from the daily grind and stepping more often into her garden.

A graduate of the politically-progressive Putney School is teaming up with George Soros to bankroll local media around the country.

One of the Koch brothers paid the bills for the tonight’s PBS documentary on marijuana legalization. VPR also will air a Q & A with people who helped write Vermont’s marijuana legalization legislation.

Two Vermont co-producers of a family television program have taken out a local radio ad reminding Vermonters about Columbus Day.

Two very different Republicans – one from the Northeast Kingdom, the other from Southwestern Vermont – both ridiculed a superficial, highly partisan op-ed written by a former leader of VTDigger’s parent organization.

Press, public, the county sheriff, and the county prosecutor all were excluded from a government meeting about the future of the Grand Isle Court House, Mike Donoghue of the Islander reports.

Commentator and author Eric Metaxas today encouraged his Vermont radio audience to get involved in local government.

Two vax-skeptic Vermont journalists have been refused a place at Gov. Phil Scott’s weekly press conferences.

Information and tickets are now available for the September 10-11 visit of two national media powerhouses: China expert Gordon Chang and author/interviewer Eric Metaxas.

Project 14, a new statewide media outlet funded by the University of Vermont, will be led by former Obama White House communications staff member, Meg Little Reilly, a Brattleboro native and UVM graduate.

Conservative Twitter commentator Brad Broyles this morning called out Sen. Kesha Ram (D-Chittenden) for stoking the fire of anti-police sentiment after the deadly shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. And Ram didn’t like it.

On Saturday March 27, the Vermont Liberty Network will gather at noon on the State House steps to celebrate the Green Mountain Boys of many generations past who served in the cause of Liberty. Public access TV host Steve Merrill will be a guest speaker.