Two former candidates from opposite ends of the Vermont political spectrum address Jan. 6 and climate change.
Mazur: Dems not proud to be Americans
It’s a serious national security problem when a majority of the people dislike this country.
Mazur: Fed/Twitter collusion is election tampering, not a ‘nothing burger’
If Republican candidates were influenced positively by social media censorship and Justice/FBI departments, it would be front page news and scourged for weeks.
Letter: China blackmailing Biden?
Top National Security officials say China is a serious threat, but Joe Biden’s doing little about it.
Trump, or not? More readers weigh in
Donald Trump will make you sick, but he is the only thing powerful enough to rid us of this cancer.
Letters: Balint, Welch donate FTX campaign $$ to Right to Life? / Young people terrorized by climate conversation
Now THAT would be atonement.
Nunnikhoven: Living in the Age of Euphemism
Vermont, the “Reproductive Surgery” State.
Independent Congress candidate ‘moved the needle’
The #4 finisher in the race for Congress offers grateful reflections.
Tagliavia: So many great people
I met so many great people on the campaign trail. The joy this brings me far outweighs any sadness.
Wheeler: Successful candidates
They weren’t elected, but they were still successful.
Leon: thanks to those with “the courage to stand up and lead”
Life is full of disappointments and the result of this election is one of them. But the journey continues….
Tarrant: Article 22 more about Handmaid’s Tale than women’s rights
A candidate who finished third in a two-seat district offers thoughts about renewable power, Article 22, and good government.
Letters: VT elections a mess, thanks Jim / Scott vetos ignore will of the people / Dem/Progs screwing up childcare, energy costs
Vermonters say – Jim Condos knows about a Progressive manipulating the unlawful opening of ballot bags – Phil Scott ignores the will of the people – Dem/Progs should be voted out for botching affordable childcare and energy
Newfane reader: Sanders ‘lacking in integrity’ for calling Madden ‘anti-choice’
A pro-choice reader from Newfane is waiting for a correction from Bernie Sanders and/or Becca Balint after Sanders publicly called Madden ‘anti-choice.’
4 Letters: Welch didn’t stand up to Big Pharma when it counted / Control over procreation?
A voter from tiny Williamsville says he’s done voting for Peter Welch on autopilot.
Letters: Clean and sober House candidate says no pot shops / Gervais a vote for fiscal restraint / ‘Gender-integrated’ military scary
As Election Day nears, candidates and other citizens weigh in.
Balint a No on vax mandate protection
Supporters of freedom from government vax mandates, take note.
Letter: You want my vote? Answer my questions
My experience with Bernie Sanders’ office is that English is the second or third language therein.
Letter: Biden blunders lead world to war
Joe Biden has made another inexcusable verbal blunder. But his spoken errors are nothing compared to policy mistakes.
Fighting the climate emergency agenda
A retired businessman from Lyndon, Charles Wilson wants to go to Montpelier to fight the climate emergency agenda.
Opinion: $29,000 to replace EV battery! / Biden’s many failures
Yep, it really can cost $29,000 to replace an old EV battery with a new one.
Opinion: Morgan for new Chittenden Senate district
A new kind of Chittenden County senator for a new, suburban Chittenden County senate district.
Letters: Vermonters afraid to speak truth about evil?
People are now afraid to speak the truth against lawlessness, socialism and current immoral behavior for fear of losing their job or being falsely accused of racism.
Letters: In praise of electricity / Montpelier ignores Sept. 11, supports legal prostitution
The anti-fossil fuel agenda is pushing poor people back into poverty, letter writer says.
Letters: Biden economists clueless / Barre wavering on flying flag on 9/11?
Why can’t Democratic presidents promote prosperity? And will Barre City Council agree to fly Old Glory on 9/11?
3 Letters: Madden Maddens / ‘Era of Big Government’ NOT over / Open letter to GOP Chair Dame
News flash: the era of big government is over – not.
Letters: Conservatives must Get Out the Vote / Hold GOP leadership accountable / Article 22 confusing
Letter writers react to primary results (or lack thereof) and the confusing upcoming statewide referendum.
Benning: On to the Big Game!
GOP Lt. Gov. nominee Joe Benning: “Yesterday, we sent a message that the Vermont Republican Party is not a party of divisive rhetoric or extremist ideology.”
Thayer: Thank you
Greg Thayer, who lost his bid for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor, writes: “Tammy and I are very humbled by this experience visiting many communities in our beautiful State, meeting many of you and your family, visiting your businesses and listening to your hopes, goals, concerns and fears. I heard you. I will continue to speak out for you in the years to come.”
Toborg: Not just one way to vote pro-life
So the question becomes, what is the best strategy to defeat this Article 22 in November?
Letters: Inflation boosts monthly house payments $500 / Real Republicans betrayed
Another crippling casualty of Bidenflation: mortgage payments.
Letter: College chum says VT needs Joe Benning
We need a steady hand on the gavel in the Senate, someone who knows and loves this chamber, Paul Cook of Barre says.
Opinion: Mermel satellite plan offers better internet for Vermont
Senate candidate Myers Mermel’s plan for satellite-based internet will deliver connectivity sooner and cheaper than laying fiber-optic cable.
Letter: Confiscate trucks stuck in Notch
A Montpelier resident lets his imagination run free on solutions for the ongoing problem of semi drivers getting their rigs stuck in scenic, tortuous Smugglers’ Notch.
Tarrant: trending towards Lord of the Flies
As it turns out, we’re not as free as we thought we were.
Letters: Press should cover local political campaigns fairly / endorsement letter
As the 2022 primary balloting begins today, a longtime moderate Vermont Republican asks his local community newspaper to cover the campaign fully and fairly.
Your letters: Former Ag secretary backs Gray / Beware false flags / ‘Warshington’ Warlords
A former Vermont Secretary of Agriculture says farm-raised Molly Gray is the best pick for Congress.
Your letters: the Biden blackouts / Big Pharma blood money
Washington pols have taken Big Pharma blood money, and look out for the Biden Blackout!
Your letters: lawmakers support Clean Heat Standard veto / nothing feminist about prostitution
In the Northeast Kingdom we have seen hasty green energy policy push subsidies for industrial wind turbines, and it has given us much pause before enacting further policies that are unclear and undefined.
Your letters: Biden, not MAGA, dangerous extremist / state senator condemned for military pension statement
The MAGA crowd believes inflation is a tax increase that deflates the value of their income, while Biden’s fiscal and energy policies have fueled the inflation spiral.
Your letters: God, Gideon, and the Vermont GOP / beware Paxlovid, Iran nuke deal
The Vermont GOP, in desperation for a quantity of members, has covered their eyes to the fact that Governor Phil Scott actively participates in the erosion of parental rights, gun rights, and the right to life: the essential principles of our country, our Constitution, and the platform of the Vermont GOP.
Letter: Progressives obfuscate over flag, Fern Feather
Progressives are all about storytelling, and the story isn’t true, a Burlington man says.
Letters: Biden’s inflation / downside of ‘green’ agenda / Prog lawmaker reminded of campaign carbon tax promise
Biden policies created runaway inflation, the green agenda is crippled our energy independence, and a Vergennes Progressive promised he would not support a Vermont-only carbon tax.
Letters: Pro-Prop 5 GOP lawmakers must go
For these two letter writers, abortion should be a non-starter in the Legislature and in the ‘clinics.’
Letter: Elect accountable School Board
A positive paradigm shift starts with electing school board members who will mandate the administration focus on math, science, literacy, and teach students to be critical thinkers.
Letter: Senators, veto 16-17 year old voting
Supporters of 16-17 year old voting should follow the science, a Ph.D. says.
Your Letters: Biden’s failed leadership / fixed-income sticker shock for heating fuel
The United States was once the leader of the free world. We’re now humiliated and ignored in just one year due to the election of Joe Biden as President.
Judd: no transparency and integrity in transcribed Barre ballots
Problems feeding 133 paper ballots into Barre City voting tabulators at last Tuesday’s City Meeting led the City Clerk to have them transcribed onto other pieces of paper and then tabulated. Brian Judd questions the transparency and integrity of transcribing ballots.
Your letters: $16K per student absurd
Letting parents choose how to spend their school taxes makes sense. And spending $16,000 per student doesn’t.
Your Letters: Climate crisis & vodka
By withdrawing support from two key pipelines, Biden assures Russia’s war-making treasury will be full to overflowing.
Your Letters: Stop China / Pass ranked choice voting
A former lawmakers wonders why Congress won’t do more to stop the existential threat of the Chinese government. And the Vermont League of Women Voters wants Ranked Choice Voting.
Rich: send freedom-threatening legislators to prison, instead
A new Senate bill would intimidate Vermonters from expressing their views to their ‘public servants.’ How about prison for freedom-infringing lawmakers?
Letter: Vaccine injuries should not be dismissed
Jacqueline Brook writes how her own experiences with vaccine injury apply to the pandemic.
Letter: Old-fashioned treatments the best
The old-fashioned cold remedies have worked well for Jacqueline Brook of Putney.
Letter: Democrats are advocating a federal takeover of elections
With Build Back Better in limbo, Democrats have a renewed focus to take control of state elections.
Letter: Participate as humans and not political parties
Political collectives of special interest are depriving humanity of its just priority.
Sexton: I’m waiting patiently, Governor
One of Governor Scott’s most outspoken, implacable Republican critics is ‘patiently waiting’ for answers to seemingly unanswerable questions.
Mazur: Pelosi political pork in Build Back Better
Former legislator Frank Mazur knows political pork when he sees it.
Rutland Town will suffer for mask mandate
The state program to control the pandemic failed. Now it’s passing the buck to municipalities. Retail disaster predicted for Rutland Town.
The authoritarian state of Vermont
Calling out the abuse of authority by representatives to continue the fear of the pandemic.
TPUSA’s Upstate Territory needs your help to attend Amerifest
Donate to sponsor members in TPUSA’s Upstate Territory to attend Amerifest.
Brock: It Isn’t About You
Senate Minority Leader Randy Brock implies the unvaccinated are prolonging and worsening COVID’s impact on the US.
Lawmaker: Legislature ignored reapportionment recommendations a decade ago
Two weeks ago the Legislative Apportionment Board recommended single-seat districts ONLY in the Vermont House of Representatives. Will the House ignore the LAB recommendation? It’s happened before, Rep. Mark Higley says.
Gagne: a living child is a sign of hope
A woman’s lost sense of dignity is not restored when she is lying on her back with her feet in stirrups having the contents of her uterus sucked out.
Teen will sleep outside State House until Guv commits to housing homeless
A 15-year-old girls says she and others will sleep on the Vermont State House steps until the governor agrees to keep housing the state’s homeless.
Mazur: ’22 elections our only hope
There’s hope with the 2022 elections. The election can provide a roadblock to this socialistic destructive path and protect our borders. We get what we accept. Vote!
Response: Recycling is NOT delusional
Vermont recyclables aren’t sent to China.
Opinion: Recycling delusional?
Since China got out of the recycling import business in 2018, is our recycling just going in the trash? A Florida mayor says yes.
Mask ‘masked’ skin cancer
A man thought the sore on his nose was just rubbing from the mask he had to wear at work. It wasn’t.
Opinion: Welcome Cubans craving freedom
Cubans love freedom. Let’s give it to them.
Four reasons to oppose expanding sales tax
You thought college was already expensive? The state wants to tax tuition.And aren’t we told that affordable childcare is already a problem?
Opinion: Biden destroys jobs, increases dependence on Russia
Gasoline has increased 50 percent and building materials 100 percent. Food prices are increasing the fastest in history with no slow down. But Biden says our greatest threat is white racism.
Opinion: VT celebrates virus victory too soon
It could be that in Vermont a new variant may surface that the vaccine will not protect against. It will take at least three months to know this statistically.
Opinion: Village of Essex Jct. cancels Constitutional rights
You would think the story about a lifeguard fired for expressing free speech would be all over the news, but did any of Vermont’s state-wide main-stream printed news media report it? Seven Days? – no. VTDigger? – no.
Mazur: Biden targets suburban single-family homes
If you live in a suburban home that has a yard, scrubs, space between you and your neighbor and you work every day to pay your mortgage, you are the target of the Biden Infrastructure Plan.
Coester: Elected officials uninformed, cowardly
To the editor: For more than a year now, I have studied, watched and paid close attention every day to what has been happening In Vermont, the USA and around the globe. […]
Black leaders ‘take charge’ against CRT
We acknowledge that racist people exist in the country, but explicitly reject the notion that the United States of America is a racist country. This is a subtle, but significant difference! We also denounce the idea that the country is guilty of systemic racism, white privilege and abhor the concept of identity politics and the promotion of victimhood in minority communities.
Letter: Mohawk descendant likes Rutland Red Raider name
As a person with a proud native American heritage with both my paternal grandmother and my maternal grandfather’s families with direct Indian blood in the Mohawk nation removing the Raider name is a slap in their face.
HR1 would give feds control over state elections
Voters don’t need a larger federal government lusting for power by subverting our Constitution and undermining state election oversight. Local election officials take pride in the current process and work closely with state legislatures protecting election security and voter rights. Democrats thrive on power grabbing; don’t let them.
UFOs – three possibilities
Many are speaking out about UFO sightings for over half a century. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) inserted language in a bill recently for the classified UFO information be released by June. This may be the impetus for current revelations. It could also be the reason why retired military are also speaking out about their experiences.
Perfect Broadband the enemy of the good
s it ok that my 104 pound wife had to load me into the wheelbarrow after I had a seizure outside in the snow, to get me inside so that she could hike to the top of the neighbor’s field to call the doctor?
Peyton: Concern about vaccines
The vaccines are already causing death and harms. The vaccinated are getting fatal cases of Covid. This is not theory. Here are some studies from our Government in proof.
‘Free’ fed money grinds rock-solid dollar into powder
To the editor: Re: $2.7 billion in federal money for Vermont – this is not free money. This is a very heavy mortgage on our grandchildren, it is a slash at the […]
Invest your stimulus check wisely
Surprise! I checked my bank account this morning and found my $1,400 stimulus check from Joe O’Biden. Guess what…I’m going to donate it all to the NRA-ILA, Judicial Watch, Vermont Daily, the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, and buy a year subscription of Epoch Times.
Sexton: let Vermont be free and normal
If you feel the need to wear a mask and stand on a dot, feel free to do so. Those of us who know you quarantine sick and vulnerable people, and don’t punish healthy people, want our lives back. That’s the definition of Normal.
Licata: In Burlington, the authoritarian children are in charge now
The children are largely in charge now – including Max and his band of comrades – with their cancerous form of postmodern, deconstructive, illiberal and authoritarian Social Justice Theory.
Mazur: No ‘unity’ from Biden
President Biden’s inaugural address called for unity to bring the country together. His speech of healing showed promise of moderation. We soon learned that his actions speak louder than his words.
Doug Richmond: will children ever recover?
There are many effects, and digging very deep into our psyche, and in ways from which we will never fully recover. What is the most severe punishment for the worst possible deadly criminal? A single month in solitary confinement.
Taking your medicine
Here in Vermont our bi-weekly briefings given by Governor Phil Scott are currently promoting vaccinations. Like it or not they are experimental at best and with no extensive track record or long-term data to support them.
Writer admits unfair criticism of Benning, Billado
Ms. Billado: There is no need for you to respond to my request for confirmation of certain FB posts. They have been exposed by the full force of John Walters’ Vermont Political Observer, who, like so many others, if not burning Hester Prynne (I mean Ellie Martin) at the stake for witchcraft, are forcing upon her, and those who dare associate with her, the Scarlet Letter R, for Republican.
Linda Kirker: Stand up or give up
What kind of future will we leave to our children and grandchildren? Right now we have a choice to fight back or not. By the way, Donald Trump rebuilt America’s military, uplifted the U.S. economy and strengthened the safety of Americans by constructing 450 miles of wall along the U.S.Southern border.
Dear Mr. Vice-President: the law has been broken and the Constitution defiled
There will be Vermonters coming to Washington next week with others from across the nation to support you in the difficult task you face as President of the Senate. Others have shunned their sworn duties and much damage has been done. As a result, you will be standing alone at that moment to do your sworn duty to defend the United States against all foreign and domestic enemies by protecting our God given rights under the Constitution.
A Little Boy’s Wish
It wasn’t until late into the third hour that a delightful, seven-year-old boy, dressed in corduroys and a blue sweater over a white shirt, came up and asked the aging Santa, “Is there any hope that my mother and father could be together at my house on Christmas morning?”
The Case for Christmas
Many of us know the songs or have seen the plays and pageants. We’ve driven by the nativities, admired the lights on both houses and trees. In a year where songs have all but stopped being sung and lights threaten to go out around every corner, the Jesus of Christmas is needed now more than ever.
During our own “times that try men’s souls,” Thomas Paine as challenging as ever
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
AG Donovan: fed defense of pro-life nurse “attack” on abortion, violates church/state separation
Significantly, HHS’s notice of alleged violation against UVM Medical Center continues to raise serious constitutional concerns as an attack against the long-established, fundamental right to access abortion services. It also presents serious constitutional issues in light of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which forms the principle of separation of church and state.
Just thinking about – Carbon War on the poor; Scott, Trump and Texas; universal voting at Town Meeting
The Queen City’s proposed “expect to suffer” fossil-fuel heat conversion program would inflict the most pain on the homeless and very poor.
Prop 5 could prioritize abortion, sterilization, gender surgeries over other procedures, Right to Life warns
I encourage the UVM MC board members to contemplate how that guarantee, if successfully passed, will impact the delivery of health care services. And to further contemplate to what extent abortions, sterilizations, sterilization reversals, surrogacy, fertility treatments, gender reassignment surgeries and their reversals, and other reproductive services would become a priority of not only funding, but also the provision of care over other health care services that are not a constitutional guarantee.
Legislature on the brink, concerned Democrat says
I was greatly encouraged to have heard a recognition by many of the imperative for us — in these difficult days particularly — to collaborate with those “across the aisle.” But I also heard some leading voices call for a “doubling down” in terms of a more partisan agenda. This worries me.
BLM: Black Lives Matter, or Be Like Marx?
After months of discussions, proposals, and counter proposals, including a contentious November 16 virtual debate, where Mayor Lucas Herring had four over-eager participants ejected, The Barre City Council finally approved a compromise to raise the BLM flag through December, but also the “Thin Blue Line” flag in January. “Clearly we’re not all on the same page here,” stated one attendee. That turn of phrase could be a sublime microcosm for the American public’s polarizing reaction to BLM.









