Political indoctrination is masquerading as school curricula. It is manipulative and shameful.
Newport mayor resigns after 75 days, citing hostility
The unhappy 75-day tenure of Newport’s mayor came to an end Monday night.
To help grads remember, UVM commencement speaker spells out V-E-R-M-O-N-T
The director of the U.S. National Science Foundation used an acrostic to help his fellow UVM grads remember his commencement speech.
Corrections disbands inmate work crews, prison industries
Department officials attribute the decline in work crew sentences to the success of criminal justice reforms, including Justice Reinvestment I and II initiatives.
Roper: Unrepresentative, under-qualified legislature gives itself a massive pay raise
The Vermont House and Senate often disagree on what priorities should be or the best way to pay for a program, but on this point they heartily agree: they themselves deserve a lot more money.
Bear sighting in suburban Shelburne – police issue advice
Bear sightings are increasingly common in Vermont. Now they’re even visiting a suburban Shelburne neighborhood.
Mermel: A Loss for the American Church
Dr. Stanley was the founder of In Touch Ministries, the author of over 70 New York Times best-selling books, and the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta for 49 years.
Klar: Beat-up pick-ups save the planet more than EVs
The case for frugal use of old cars and trucks.
Vermont doctor to join vax mandate roundtable at Dartmouth
Dr. Horace “Sandy” Reider will join Great Barrington Declaration co-author Martin Kulldorf at Dartmouth College Wednesday, April 26.
VT Headlines: Fraudsters target VT town bank acct.
Springfield prison super faces allegations of misconduct; Vt. delegation pushes to protect abortion pill access; VT students have been restrained or secluded at least 125 times this school year
Sandra Dragon, longtime AIV president, passes on March 25
Sandra Dragon was a force of nature.
Bradley: Suicide hasn’t risen with gun ownership
Of all the background-check-passing gun store purchases conducted in Vermont in the last 10 years, two have resulted in suicides.
Putin blasts UK move to send ammo with depleted uranium to Ukraine
Russia has previously warned the use of depleted uranium will be considered an attack by a ‘dirty nuke’
Sen. Becca White slammed on social media for ‘throwing other women under the bus’
Only men could oppress women for thousands of years, then turn around, put on a dress, and complain they are the most marginalized group in society.
Biomass controversy boils over in Climate Council
In Chittenden County, home to lawmakers including Speaker of the House, Jill Krowinski and Senate President Philip Baruth, the McNeil plant is not just a powerful constituent, but also a critical component in supplying electricity to residents and businesses.
Evslin: Don’t believe everything an AI tells you
ChatGPT makes up a lot of stuff.
Paid medical leave with 100% wage replacement OK’d by committee
Administering mandated insurance would double size of Treasurer’s office The House Committee on General and Housing passed out H.66 Thursday February 16, which would create the most generous paid family and medical […]
Rural towns optimistic but cautious about Phil Scott’s $3M plan
It’s an audacious idea – give very small towns with limited staff and no Town Planner the money they need to go after the big federal bucks themselves. But will they get it, and will it work?
Dems plan $100 million mandatory paid family leave
Democrats’ mandatory paid family leave will require $100 million in new employer/employee taxes.
VT Headlines: Rutland cops wearing body cams / Shelburne cop shoves driver / Burlington reduces parking requirements for new buildings
Queen City councilors say requiring less parking for new homes will create more living space and cut carbon emissions.
Second-degree attempted murder in Berlin
Police say a domestic incident at a Berlin motel resulted in the arrest of a 41-year-old man on charges of attempted second degree murder.
Watercooler: Biggest health insurer quits all-payer program
Vermont’s health care reform program just lost the participation of Blue Cross -Blue Shield.
U.S. infantry 20 miles from Russian border
What is a U.S. Army infantry company doing in Estonia, 20 miles from the Russian border?
YouTube cancels Burlington panel of pandemic experts
“The cancel culture is real! YouTube has cancelled us!” Restoring Our Faith leaders said today.
CLG: Twitter Files #4 shows how platform permanently banned Trump
Twitter changed its policies with the goal of permanently banning Donald Trump.
Rutland man held for robbery, heroin possession dies in prison
A man being held in prison after arrest in October on assault, robbery and drug possession charges died in a Rutland hospital Sunday afternoon.
Happy wags or stress signals? People learn pooch lingo
That happy-looking pooch may be trying to tell you he’s stressed out.
Unsafe lead levels plague Vermont school water faucets
One in every five taps tested at Vermont schools and childcare facilities was at or above the level requiring that it be removed, because it has a higher chance of harming children.
County in England plans neighborhood lockdown to ‘save the planet’ from global warming
Former Eco-Health Alliance top official says Covid-19 created in Wuhan lab.
CLG: FBI met weekly with Big Tech ahead of 2020 election, FBI agent says
Is it election interference when the FBI meets with Big Tech before an election to discuss censoring ‘disinformation’?
Former Senate candidate Mermel joins EAI board
A former Senate candidate, a professor, and a conservative grassroots organizer have joined the Ethan Allen Institute board of directors.
Block heater causes oil delivery truck fire
A fully engulfed fire threatened to spread to nearby trucks.
Watercooler: Attempted child abduction
Burlington police are investigating an attempted abduction of a child walking home from school.
CLG: Dutch ‘Nitrogen Minister’ to close 3000 farms
The Netherlands, one of the world’s leading food producers, will shut down up to 3000 farms because of climate change regulations.
Man found dead in home explosion identified
The body of a 56-year-old man was found dead after a home explosion in Newfane.
G20 panelist seeks global digital tracking of vaccination
A digital, global vaccine passport will help nations prepare for the next pandemic, an health official tells the G20.
FTX linked to WEF, Ukraine cryptocurrency site
Collapsed cryptocurrency empire and Becca Balint major donor FTX set up a crypto donation site for the Ukrainian government, the Blaze reports.
Phil Scott: Vermonters want us to work together
Hyper-partisan political parties are driving Americans further and further apart – and seem to get the most attention from the media.
Roving, would-be child kidnapper in Barre?
Barre cops say there have been sightings of a mid-forties white man driving a blue Ford pickup truck stalking groups of children.
Maine’s property tax freeze on seniors – could it happen here?
Permanent Maine residents 65 or older who have owned a home for at least 10 years may apply through their towns to have their property taxes frozen at their current level.
Troubles reported with voting machines in Maricopa County, AZ
Arizona elections once again are in the national eye.
Passport info of 145 million Americans given to law enforcement agencies
A letter from a U.S. senator to the Biden administration reveals that the State Department is providing passport data on 145 million Americans to police agencies.
2000 Mules producers jailed after outing election data on Chinese servers
True the Vote told the FBI the personal information of nearly two million American election workers was stored on a server in China. Now its founders are in jail for contempt of court.
Hildebrand: day of my abortion was the saddest day of my life
Some want Vermont to be known as an abortion sanctuary state. This would make them proud.
Water Cooler: Government one-sided, Republican from Montpelier says
It’s lonely being a Republican in the City of Montpelier. Just ask Gene Leon.
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “complex and grave situation” inside a Wuhan lab
On Nov. 12, 2019, a dispatch by Chinese Communist party branch members at the BSL-4 laboratory appeared to reference a biosecurity breach. “Once you have opened the stored test tubes, it is just as if having opened Pandora’s Box.”
DHS ‘disinformation” collusion with Big Tech, PayPal $2500 fine for ‘misleading’ info both began years ago – and are still in effect
As it turns out, PayPal really has had a $2500 ‘misleading’ information fine in place since 2015. And Homeland Security has been fighting ‘disinformation’ on social media since 2020.
Water Cooler: pushing to raise the bar on the right to evict
Should the Legislature make it harder to evict tenants? Or put another way – give tenants more legal protections?
CLG: Bank links transactions with carbon footprint
A friendly note from your bank: you’ve exceeded your carbon allowance.
Latest death on Franklin County highway not a traffic accident
A 40-year-old man died Wednesday after pulling his vehicle over to the side of Rte. 105 in Sheldon.
CLG: 1 billion crabs disappear! Alaskan harvest cancelled
CLG collects the national and international news you rarely reported by the MSM.
School bus hits pickup truck at intersection
An afternoon school bus collided Monday with a pickup truck at Mountain Top Road in Chittenden.
McClaughry: Working out of the housing crisis
The particulars may change. But always, always, there’s something more important than actually building affordable housing.
Pfizer Exec testifies: No vax testing for preventing transmission
‘Moving at the speed of science,’ Pfizer was unable to test its vax for preventing transmission of Covid. Which explains a lot.
Ukraine ends freedom of press / Kanye West, Florida Surgeon General censored by Twitter
It’s Freedom of the Press Day all over the world – NOT.
CLG: Feds create vegetable garden registry
The USDA is pushing The People’s Garden Initiative, which includes registering gardens nationwide for a “more diverse and resilient local food system.”
CLG: Europe may lose cellphone coverage this winter
For what it’s worth – read Putin’s speech after he annexed Ukrainian territory. “The people have made their unequivocal choice.”
No prosecution for cops who shot Matthew Davis
Three police officers “reasonably believed they were in imminent danger of being killed or suffering great bodily harm” in the attempted apprehension of a murder suspect in Brattleboro, authorities have ruled.
VT National Guard gets good marks for sex assault prevention
The Vermont National Guard has revised sex assault prevention policies, updated leader training, and sustained the necessary number of sex assault prevention personnel, a national assessment found.
Russia says US suspect in pipeline sabotage
Plenty of finger pointing over sabotage of Russian natural gas pipeline to Germany. Whodunit?
FedEx van burns on I-91
Spectacular vehicle fire on I-91 Wednesday afternoon.
Bear dies in I-89 collision / Arrest in fed office burglary
Another freeway vehicular collision with a large animal.
Moose crossing I-91 results in two accidents, again
For the second straight year, one moose crossing I-91 in the Northeast Kingdom has led to two accidents.
Kiwi and Hillary call for state censorship
The Prime Minister of New Zealand has joined Hillary Clinton in calling for a global censorship system.
Water Cooler: State gives away $3000 to crush your clunker and buy EV
VTDigger publishes the long-and-growing list of subsidies, tax breaks and giveaways for Vermonters to drive electric. This headline and others in today’s media.
Man fires AR-15, blames gunshot on unidentified black man, police say
Bishop claimed he had been in an altercation with an unidentified black man from out of state, who had produced a concealed AR-15 and fired a round.
Chinese bioresearch company buys Florida land for primate lab
A Chinese-based biological research company in July purchased land in Florida to build a primate quarantine and breeding facility.
Water Cooler: NAACP educating on qualified immunity / City council acts on policing / keeping local journalism alive
This week the VT NAACP is holding seminars on qualified immunity for law enforcement, judges, lawmakers, and community members.
Court says no to Big Tech censorship
Was the Ukrainian president’s bodyguard really sporting an SS patch?
Biden Sept. 12 executive order clears path for ‘transhumanism’
An executive order signed by President Biden Monday would eradicate clinical trial safety standards in its pursuit of human gene-editing technologies.
12 U.S. agencies pushed Covid censorship
More than 50 officials in Joe Biden’s administration across a dozen agencies have been involved with efforts to pressure Big Tech companies to crack down on alleged misinformation, according to documents released on Aug. 31.
Man dies in single-car crash
A 77-year-old Sandgate man died after his car left the road.
Survey: 82% of Vermonters think Vermont housing shortage long-term, self-inflicted
Most Vermonters think the housing shortage won’t improve until government starts loosening restrictions.
DOJ ordered to stop review of Trump records / 55% of toddlers had ‘systemic’ vax reaction, CDC says / Ivermectin 92% effective
National and international headlines you may not see in the MSM.
Biden last night: MAGA voters ‘semi-fascist’ threat to democracy
The former president and his supporters ‘represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” our current president said last night.
‘Defund Davos’ bill introduced by House Republicans
Will the House have the votes to defund Davos, instead of the police? These world headlines and others provided by CLG.
13-year-old dies in ATV crash
A Randolph boy died after he lost control of his ATV in Mt. Holly.
America last! Another $3 bil going to Ukraine / FBI’s Mir-A-Lago raid chief oversaw Gretchen Whitmer investigation
The FBI agent who had oversight over the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot now runs the D.C. field office that conducted the Mir-A-Lago raid, says Just The News.
Farm tractor driver charged with DUI-drugs after deadly crash on Rte. 105
By Guy Page An Enosburg farm worker was under the influence of drugs when he pulled his farm tractor onto Rte. 105 in Sheldon, causing a collision fatal to oncoming motoryclist Rodney […]
Alleged car thief gouges cop’s eye
A man with a lengthy criminal rap sheet tried to gouge the eyes of the Burlington cop that apprehended him. Both were treated for their injuries.
Quebec offers 5th vax shot
The Province of Quebec will make available a fifth shot of the Covid-19 vaccine/therapeutic.
Quad-vaxxed Jill Biden, Gen. Austin, Pfizer CEO all get Covid / Canada working on digital ID / Rosary ‘extremist symbol
Atlantic Magazine writer calls the Catholic Rosary an “extremist symbol.” Sort of like the cross?
Wheel: what I did at the polls when I discovered my name was already checked off
I grabbed my phone and said to the worker, “I’m going to go potentially save you a lot of trouble” as I walked out the door.
Primary questionnaire: Gregory Thayer, GOP, Lt. Governor
“I will work to REPEAL the Global Warming Solutions Act, fix Act 250, stop following the California Fuel Standards, streamline the permitting process and get government out of people’s pocketbooks.” – Greg Thayer
Coasties sue over vax mandate
China suspends food imports from Taiwan. WEF wants to end private car ownership: “walk or share.” Some Afghans say Al-Zawahiri died of asthma, not drone attack. These national headlines and others from CLG.
Vermonter recovering at home from state’s first monkeypox infection
Vermont and 47 other states have at least a single monkeypox infection. New York leads the way with 1,345.
Nine-year-old dies two weeks after Pfizer shot
CDC VAERS data shows a nine-year-old with no pre-existing conditions died two weeks after vaccination.
House Dems block attempted ban on strategic oil sales to China
A May, 2022 University of Chicago poll finds that most Americans say the U.S. government is corrupt and almost a third say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against it.
Polio confirmed
Monkeypox, polio, and and Biden admin award to Soros group to help border crossers make headlines across the country.
Truck Garden
TRUCK GARDEN in West Newbury really puts the rust in rustic.
Slain Burlington man had athletic success, crime record for theft, dealing crack
Hussein Mubarak was a new American who found success on Burlington’s athletic fields and crime and death on her streets.
Held for attempted murder
A man police say is a prohibited from possessing guns was arrested for attempted murder with a firearm in connection with a domestic incident in Orwell Sunday.
Vermont Daily Water Cooler for Tue, Jul 12
Dem VT journalist Graff sees parallel with Watergate, Jan. 6 – this headline and others from today’s Vermont news media.
Biden ships “strategic reserve” oil overseas
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve meant to protect U.S. citizens from a catastrophic fuel shortage is being sent overseas.
‘Jane’s Revenge’ in Burlington urges arson, rock-throwing against local pro-life clinic
“Gather your friends and collect heavy rocks,” Jane’s Revenge urges opponents of the SCOTUS decision overturning Roe V. Wade. “Learn the skill of accelerant bartending. Decentralize your actions – go into the night and be feral with joy!”
Twitter won’t censor threats against Thomas, but will censor peer-reviewd study on Covid vax and fertility
Threaten to assassinate a black Supreme Court justice? Free speech, says Twitter. Tweeting about a study linking the Covid vax to infertility, not so much.
Unplugging the Rage Machine
Biden’s plea for peacefulness was lost on the Big Blue Rage Machine the Democrats have been operating.
Two dozen states restrict abortions following Roe decision
The nation’s Red and Blue states are both consolidating their positions on abortion following Friday’s SCOTUS overturning of Roe V. Wade.
Suzanne Young named attorney general
A former deputy attorney general and senior aide to Gov. Phil Scott will be Vermont’s first woman attorney general.
Man dies in Marshfield fire
A man believed to be the homeowner was trapped inside the home as it burned.









