Yesterday’s election left the number of 2023 House Republicans at below 40, and senators at 7. Those numbers make it almost impossible to sustain a gubernatorial veto of progressive legislation.
Vermont Election Results for federal, statewide, legislative races
Article 22, Phil Scott win big on Election Day
Constitutional amendments and Gov. Phil Scott won big in Vermont’s November 8 general election.
Water Cooler: Warmest Nov. 7 ever / Voting hot as 170,000 ballots cast before polls open
A stiff, cold wind blew from the north as Election Day 2022 dawned this morning.
Where will the asteroid hit?
The asteroid might just nail the Democratic/Progressive supermajority in the Vermont House of Representatives.
Land owners push back against lot size restrictions
To preserve forests, proposed town zoning regs would increase minimum building lot size from three to five acres.
Outlaw Outlaw arrested
Police say Outlaw is behind bars.
Follow Vermont election results tonight
The Vermont Secretary of State’s live Election Night Results website page is the best way to follow election returns statewide.
Klar: school tramples parental, student rights
What does it mean when parents tell school officials they can’t question their child about possibly criminal activities? In Randolph, not much
McClaughry: Biden’s idea of our fiscal future
The on-paper deficit reduction in the Inflation Reduction Act is totally wiped out by the administration’s decision to cancel vast swaths of student loan debt.
Shooting, dead man in Rutland
After reports of a crash and gunfire, police found a dead man in a crashed car in Rutland. More info to follow, police say.
Fire destroys camper in Lowell
Woodstoves and their ashes can be fire hazards.
Ellis: Democratic Dilemma
Democrats have lost control of the narrative, a Democrat and former lobbyist and newspaper reporter says.
Water Cooler: Veterans share stories in Colchester
There’s more than just political campaigning happening in Vermont.
Proposal 2 advocate calls incarceration “the new slavery”
A leading advocate for the anti-slavery Constitutional amendment compares modern-day imprisonment with slavery.
Madden to conservatives: Debate didn’t affect the primary voting outcome
Liam Madden responds to Ericka Redic’s call that he quit the race.
Child hospitalized for cocaine exposure at Rutland drug den
Police raided a Rutland home after a child living there was treated at a local hospital for exposure to cocaine.
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.
Thayer: Help the Red Wave roll across the Green Mountain State
In these closing days of the 2022 mid-term elections, the Red Wave must hit as a tsunami throughout the Green Mountain State.
Pharmacist with drug theft history reinstated by licensing board, steals again
Badgley’s license was fully reinstated in 2020, and then suspended on September 24, 2021 when the Board became aware of the new allegations of tampering.
Vote Benning for Lt. Gov., former challenger Greg Thayer asks supporters
Greg Thayer is grateful to his supporters but asks them to vote for fellow Republican Joe Benning.
Newark gang busted for stealing 7 catalytic converters from bus depot
The thefts were the latest in a growing statewide and national trend. Catalytic converters have a $1000 street value and lack tracing information.
Bananas: Investigation drops the hammer on Pelosi MAGA assailant
The man is a practicing nudist, which any fully clothed person knows is the goal of all Christian Nationalists – to return to the Garden of Eden completely naked.
Klar: Randolph school officials lied to student in pursuit of Blake Allen, another mom says
Charges of deception by school officials in the Randolph high school volleyball locker room story.
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.
Water Cooler: Looking back to the Flood of 1927
The Great Flood of 1927 killed a lieutenant governor and destroyed huge swathes of property, especially along the Connecticut and Winooski rivers.
Sign-stealing illegal, discouraging, expensive
A campaign sign for Republican House candidate is tossed to the ground while those of Democrats are left standing.
Rather than write essay to ‘agree with their transgender dogma,’ Randolph volleyball player filed suit
Her school gave Blake Allen a chance to recant with a mea culpa essay about her complaint to a transgender student watching her undress in the girls’ locker room. Failure meant suspension.
Ellis: Assassination Nation
The first assassination attempt on Nancy Pelosi’s life was on January 6, blogger Kevin Ellis says. The second happened last week.
Bananas: Extra-large seats at Planet Fatness
Visit the Ben & Jerry’s kiosk to grab a pint or two of your favorite flavors for that mid-workout snack.
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.
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
Evslin: Most of us will be disappointed by the election outcome
Are we going to blame fraud, lies, media bias, advertising, the Russians, or someone else?
Angry momma bear attacked dog owner
Dietl’s partner reported that he heard Dietl yell for help and intervened. He was able to separate Dietl from the bear and bring her inside the condominium.
Water Cooler: Teen cited for high school overdose deaths / school safety gathering / Church vandal misspells ‘Satan’
Who can resist a story about a one-eared dog named Van Gogh who paints with his tongue?
Kudos to Chronicle, former Rutland mayor says
With meager resources, The Vermont Daily Chronicle is accomplishing the impossible, a former Rutland mayor and state official says.
Second bear attack since August 20 sends human to hospital
Vermont bears are getting less and less shy. Of the five bear attacks of humans on record, two took place within the last 80 days.
Regional planning commissioner resigns, citing censorship, harsh pandemic policies, denying human access to nature
Current planning policies “restrict our access to the natural world and the resources that we need to survive, such as the roads we travel on, the wood we use to build and heat our homes, the farms where we grow our food, and now, the very air we breathe,” says a planning commissioner in her letter of resignation.
Medical and vax freedom candidate survey offers insight before Nov. 8 election
The thumbs up – thumbs down doesn’t follow the party line. Neither is it limited to well-known candidates.
State trooper gripes about frustrating software glitches – sound familiar?
We’ve all been there. Unless you’re Amish.
How to calculate the Speed of Science
We at the Ministry of Truthiness want to explain what one of our propaganda dispensers meant when she said that we created the Glorious Goo at the Speed of Science™.
Jay Peak returns to private ownership
Jay Peak becomes the sixth ski resort in PGRI’s portfolio.
Article 22 & suicide
Compared to women who carry their children to term, those who obtain abortions experience consistently higher rates of mental illness. They also engage in more self-destructive behavior, like suicide, than women who do not have abortions.
Hughes: Covid ‘amnesty’ plea lacks repentance – so no deal!
The power-hungry governors and the evil men and women who did this to us will never admit what they did because right now all they care about is hoping we’ll just forget about it.
VTGOP airs video ad critical of Zuckerman treatment of farm labor
Less than a week before Election Day, a new VT GOP political ad says employer David Zuckerman isn’t as worker-friendly as the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor claims to be.
Water Cooler: Meeting agenda: keep the trucks OUT of the Notch
Can the Prog/Democrats keep the Republicans from taking their legislative supermajority? Can ANYONE keep tractor-trailers out of Smugglers Notch? See today’s headlines
Feds fund five Ph.Ds in new equity, ‘social-emotional’ program at UVM
“Collaboration among families, communities, and schools is necessary to support the social, emotional, and behavioral health of our children….a great deal of work is necessary to increase equity,” a UVM prof says.
Malloy leads slate of vax mandate ‘freedom champions’
45 candidates from justice of the peace to U.S. senator have been endorsed by a vaccine mandate freedom organization.
Redic says Madden should ‘immediately withdraw’ over campaign contributions
Liam Madden has committed very serious campaign finance violations and should immediately withdraw from his race for Congress, Libertarian candidate Ericka Redic said.
Sexton: can five-year-olds understand what’s being taken from them?
Once they chemically, physically and psychologically change the individual, the individual is no longer in control of their reproductive autonomy. It is gone forever.
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.’
Montpelier police chief moving on to Manhattan (KS)
After two-plus years, Montpelier’s police chief is taking a job in Kansas, to be closer to his midwestern roots.
Hunters asked to collect deer teeth
Biologists are collecting middle incisor teeth from all regular season bucks to help estimate population size, growth rate, health, and mortality rates.
Water Cooler: Government one-sided, Republican from Montpelier says
It’s lonely being a Republican in the City of Montpelier. Just ask Gene Leon.
Breaking News: Zuckerman tough on farm employees, GOP ad claims
Farmer David Zuckerman a slave driver (figuratively speaking) to his field workers? A new GOP ad has a reported farm worker saying it’s so.
Madden explains family campaign contributions
Blatantly illegal, questionable, or just using loopholes to get into a televised ‘public’ debate? Depends who you ask about GOP Congressional candidate Liam Madden’s creative campaign financing.
McClaughry: Parties aren’t engaging on the really important issues
Pop quiz, Vermont voters: will your choices for Vermont House & Senate vote to extend the 6% sales tax to services like haircuts and plumbing?
Madden says he’s ‘to the left of Roe,’ criticizes Sanders for labeling him ‘anti-choice’
“I am for protecting ~99.9% of all abortion choices, federally, and am to the left of Roe in that regard,” explained Madden, in response to the false statement claiming he was anti-choice.
Bucchieri: Skeptical about State ‘compelling interest’ in reproduction
After Covid lockdowns, masks, social distancing and compelled vaccinations to keep jobs, enter buildings or travel, it should not be a stretch of the imagination to believe that our government is more than willing to suspend our constitutional rights.
Keelan: While VT pols praise their housing spending ‘success,’ new workforce housing scarce
The state’s actions to date can be cynically described as bureaucratic window-dressing in responding to the housing crisis.
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.
Hartland fatal / 116 MPH on I-91
No seatbelt. Truck drifts off road. Driver dead. And a New York man was cited for traveling 51 MPH over the speed limit.
SoBu battery maker provides power storage to electric bus depot
No cost estimates available, and natural gas is a power source – but a Vermont battery manufacturer has scored a major contract for an electric bus depot.
NPR story On new late-term abortion clinic a warning for Vermonters
A Vermont group opposed to Article 22 publishes a video by an abortion survivor and highlights an NPR story on a proposed clinic specializing in late-term abortions.
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.
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?
Norman Rockwell Exhibit at the
Arlington Sugar Shack
A Norman Rockwell art exhibit – including stories of the Vermonters who posed as his models – is on display in Arlington through December 20.
Former AG Sorrell, former Rutland mayor Louras renamed to Criminal Justice Board
A longtime Vermont Attorney General and a controversial Rutland mayor and lawmaker are among the reappointees to the influential Vermont Criminal Justice Board.
Article 22 would prevent late-term abortion regulation, open door to gender assignment rights, former U.S. attorney says
A former U.S. Attorney claims unwelcome consequences if Article 22 is approved by voters on November 8.
5,500 bags of fentanyl for ‘personal use,’ former Springfield MA resident tells cops who busted him
5,500 bags of fentanyl for personal use? That’s what a man arrested on I-91 last week told police.
Putnam: “Pitre Derangement Syndrome”
Some critics of Cambridge-Waterville House candidate Rebecca Pitre have a bad case of PDS.
Missing girl found
A Stockbridge girl has been missing for two days.
Randolph volleyball player, dad sue school for unfair retaliation
The Allen family is pushing back.
Unlike Vermont, Michigan Reproductive Liberty amendment says what it means
Constitutional amendments don’t need to be vague. Just look at Michigan’s.
Revisiting The Twilight Zone
A WWII paratrooper changed how America experienced television.
Candidates, vets to gather Saturday to highlight veteran suicide problem
Candidates, veterans and family members plan to meet tomorrow at the Vermont State House to focus on the problem of veteran suicide.
Water Cooler: Another fatal shooting in Bennington / Another try at demolishing cathedral
As judged by the frequency of shootings, Bennington is the Burlington of the South.
Rowell: So tired of the one-sided news coverage
Thank God for Vermont Daily Chronicle and True North Reports and [WVMT’s] The Morning Drive. The rest of our press is biased, and operates as the left arm of the Democrat/Progressive party.
Jews ‘experience a sense of risk,’ UVM prez says
“Antisemitism, in any form, will not be tolerated at UVM,” Pres. Suresh Garimella told the UVM Board of Trustees today.
Now a U.S. citizen, Chittenden senate candidate living the American Dream
“The whole Critical Race Theory. My children are taught to hate their mother. That is very concerning to me,” Rohan St. Marthe says.
Woman gives drug dealers guns and home base in return for fentanyl, police say
Drug dealers need guns and a safe place to crash and sell drugs from. They get both from Vermont drug addicts.
Hypocrisy Is on the Ballot in Vermont
In the practice of slavery the human dignity, economic opportunity, and personal liberty of the powerful was counted as more important than the human dignity of the vulnerable.
Titus: Red wave should be tsunami – three reasons it might not be
If the red wave doesn’t reach Vermont, Republicans wondering why should look in the mirror.
Prescription Take Back Day Saturday
Vermonters will get a chance this Saturday, October 29, to dispose of unused, unwanted and expired medications easily and safely at 55 locations throughout the state.
Water Cooler: court to rule on non-citizen voting
Will non-citizens be allowed to vote in local elections in Vermont? The State Supreme Court is hearing both sides.
Big wind developer Blittersdorf gives $1000 to Dem House candidate Sims
A big wind power developer has given $1000 in campaign contributions to the Democrat running in a tight House race against Republican Vicki Strong.
When wind turbines caused sleep deprivation, key lawmakers sided with Big Wind
Powerful lawmakers’ indifference to human suffering was obvious when they backed Big Wind over Vermonters harmed by wind turbine sleep deprivation.
Kauffman: Article 22 strips power from Legislature, gives it unelected hospitals, judges
To suggest, as Drs. Till and MacAfee do, that something that constitutionally protected late-term abortions will “never happen” is naïve at best and dangerously misleading at worst.
Teen who killed Mubarak in July also fired shots into his home in February, police say
As of this summer, half of Burlington’s gunfire incidents were ascribed to young men in the New American community. City officials have awarded a $20,000 grant to a community group to address the causes of the violence.
McClaughry: Climate censorship
It’s a bad sign when one side of a political debate demands to cut off the microphones of the people on the other, the WSJ writes, and John McClaughry agrees.
Oil Companies profit because we shut off Russian competition
Time for the oil companies and the President to get off the dime. More US oil needs to flow immediately.
Towns get wastewater $$
$30 million in federal money has been doled out to improve municipal wastewater systems.
Truck #4 stuck in Notch
On a sunny afternoon during foliage season, a tractor trailer blocked traffic through one of Vermont’s premiere tourist destinations.
Danby double murder suspect extradited
Louise, 79, was arrested earlier this month at his home near Syracuse on two counts of second-degree murder arising from the killing of his in-laws, George and Catherine Peacock, at their Danby residence 33 years ago.
Werewolf Lit Class
“Oh, the terrible disgrace, the ignominy of it, possessing a mythical monster in one’s own family in this age of science and enlightenment.” – Guy Endore, “The Werewolf of Paris”
Hell begins construction on border wall
Building a wall in Hell to keep out the expected influx because, climate change.
Dennis Prager on Bernie Sanders: “He’s a gigantic fool”
Intelligent people like Bernie Sanders can still be fools, Dennis Prager says.
Water Cooler: Man dead after mobile home fire
News headlines from around the state.
Green: Paradox Lost on Article 22 voters?
One ballot question asks Vermonters to ban slavery. The other asks Vermonters to okay killing a living being.
Gassett: ‘Election Month’ replacing ‘Election Day’
Windham County House candidate Nancy Gassett details problems with the universal mailed ballot election system.
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