Phil Baruth, the Legislature’s acknowledged leader in gun control legislation, admits that Phil Scott has the final say.
Phil Baruth, the Legislature’s acknowledged leader in gun control legislation, admits that Phil Scott has the final say.
The only thing using the wrong tool of the Clean Heat Standard would accomplish would be to drive a substantial portion of our population into financial distress.
Drawing on research provided by the election integrity group True the Vote, “2000 Mules” offers two types of evidence: geotracking and video.
Vermont State Police on Wednesday, June 1 arrested a suspect in the 2019 homicide of a woman whose remains were found in a shallow grave in Searsburg
For the benefit of the institution of a citizen legislature, please accept the temporary financial discomfort, serve your time honorably, and then go back to gainful employment as thousands of legislators past and present have done.
Gov. Phil Scott vetoed 13 bills during the 2021-22 session. Nine stuck.
Headlines from Vermont media.
Police were contacted by school staff who informed them they received a report of an alleged threat made to the school by a student.
Many of the modern pharmaceutical drugs used to treat these specific conditions carry warnings that people taking them may experience suicidal or homicidal thoughts.
Justice Alito noted especially, among the cases overturned, the notorious Plessy v. Ferguson decision (1896) that upheld racial segregation on railroad coaches.
In the Vermont House, 78 Republicans have stepped forward in an effort to wrest control from the Democratic-Progressive supermajority.
Framers of the universal school meals law say it will remove stigma, promote student performance, and help the local food economy; critics say it soaks the poor to subsidize the rich.
An outspoken pro-2A, pro-cannabis native Vermonter from Bennington is running for governor as an independent.
Could fascism be stealth – hidden in plain sight, sold to the people by offering protection, security, services, justice and aid?
The WEF meeting began to fill with the A-list of the super-rich, so elite you won’t find their numbers in the Yellow Pages because they exchange them in their little black books on Epstein Island.
The endorsement signals Victory Fund’s confidence that Pieciak is well-positioned to win the Treasurer’s race and will be a strong voice for equality once elected.
A beautiful Memorial Day weekend brought out motorcycle rides, marathon runners, parade viewers, and Vermonters honoring the fallen at the veterans’ cemetery.
Kevin Divney, a finance expert and fund manager, emailed Vermont Daily Chronicle shortly after 11 AM this morning: “I have removed my name from the Ballot for Office of Treasurer this morning. I will have no further comments.”
The many organizers behind the Clean Heat Standard are intelligent, committed to the doctrine of climate change, and have substantial in-state and out-of-state financial resources.
Kelly is also taking aim at the “super-majority” in the Legislature that has resulted in ill-advised legislation.
As far as the chances of dying in a mass public shooting, the US stacks up favorably vs. most European countries. Our rate still falls in the bottom half.
A bank burglary, a fatal car crash, an almost-disastrous wreck involving five teenagers, and a drunk driving through a state campground at night in pursuit of a family he threatened to kill – just another holiday weekend for Vermont’s Thin Blue Line.
Leaving Vermont woodlands untouched will mean less healthy trees because ‘unmanaged’ forests often result in disease and pest proliferation.
Banning assault weapons won’t do much more than tick off conservatives.
Washington pols have taken Big Pharma blood money, and look out for the Biden Blackout!
A Springfield, MA man was charged with selling drugs out of the home of a Williamstown man.
A man claiming to be a U-Haul employee took a truck from a Burlington location – but he wasn’t.
With governmental violence what it is, arming up is the very wisest thing the people can do.
Vermont’s political left has chosen sides in the race for Congress – against front-runner Molly Gray.
Just one Republican has declared for one of the newly redistricted Chittenden County Senate seats: Rep. Leland Morgan, a Milton/Grand Isle representative seeking the newly created Chittenden North seat.
Divney has managed investment funds with assets over $12 billion, which is roughly 50% larger than the entire budget for the State of Vermont.
School resource officers aren’t welcome on the premises of several Vermont high schools, but many others see the value in an on-duty police officer.
Ben & Jerry’s took out a full page ad in the May 25 Seven Days to criticize “social media attacks on legislators over a transgender rights bill.”
Vermont’s EV car program is supported regressively by diverting tax dollars from low-income Vermonters to finance fancy “planet-saving” cars that no regular Vermonter could afford until it is ready for the junk yard.
If Middlebury College ever bragged on alum and former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas in the past, it may not have that right anymore: Douglas is sort of disowning his alma mater.
The ACLU says the Legislature dropped the ball on police reform, and students are demanding action following the Texas shootings.
Two schools now facing shooter threats stopped having school resource officers during the last two years.
Another incumbent has joined the ranks of lawmakers not seeking re-election.
Puma reportedly has been in and out of the state criminal justice system for years. In 2019 he punched his defense attorney in the face in court, and required five officers to restrain him, the news report said.
Serhat Gumrukcu, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Berk Eratay, 35, of Las Vegas, Nevada, were arrested yesterday for conspiring to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire of Gregory Davis of Danville.
Molly Gray wants to prevent federal lawmakers from voting on energy legislation if their energy earnings exceed their legislative salary.
The Senate must end the filibuster, then expand background checks and waiting periods for people who do not pass a background check.
The ‘gun violence epidemic’ parallels the obesity epidemic, the drug abuse epidemic, and is a direct reflection of the entitled, cynical, and nihilistic view held by a large chunk of Americans.
We are rolling the dice every day the schools are not protected.
Unlike the West Coast city I grew up in, I learned gunshots in Vermont meant someone was either practicing or putting food on the table.
GOP candidates Gerald Malloy and Greg Thayer visit the Secretary of State’s office to file their petitions.
Addison County law enforcement is considering the idea of hiring ‘undocumented migrants.’
The leading study on the effectiveness of the 1994 ban stated: “In general we found, really, very, very little evidence, almost none, that gun violence was becoming less lethal and less injurious during this time frame. So on the balance, we concluded that the ban had not had a discernible impact on gun crime during the years it was in effect.”
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 Burlington native, former Burlington police chief, and UVM alumnus will become the Burlington-based university’s chief law enforcement officer.
Despite an 89% decrease in overall traffic stops, black people account for a higher percentage of Burlington Police Dept. arrests and are more than twice as likely to be arrested for a violent felony.
Before you wave a pistol at someone while driving 100 MPH, make sure it’s not a state trooper in an unmarked police car.
Two more shooting incidents in Springfield, including an injury to a man who once bragged about being the biggest heroin dealer in Newport.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday held an emergency meeting to discuss the outbreak of monkeypox after more than 100 cases were reported across 12 countries.
H96 creates a task force to develop “legislation to create one or more truth and reconciliation commissions to examine and begin the process of dismantling institutional, structural, and systemic discrimination in Vermont, both past and present.”
On Jan. 6, 2022, Bennett was charged in Rhode Island criminal court with Felony Assault and/or Battery, Reckless Driving and Other Offenses Against Public Safety, and Resisting Legal or Illegal Arrest.
First responders say that in springtime the water runs fast and cold in Vermont streams and rivers. Swimmers beware.
No global pandemic treaty can bind the U.S. without Congressional approval, Vermont’s retiring senior senator said. However, critics say the Biden administration’s controversial proposed treaty language can be adopted because a treaty is already in place.
The Clean Heat Standard is like raising taxes on sugary beverages: taxing the poor to change purchasing behaviors.
Awakened in the night and dressed in only his nightshirt, Green Mountain Boy Remember Baker attempted to defend his family from the mob of Yorkers with an ax.
The three new appointees to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board are Nicholas Burnham of Hartland, Neal Hogan of Bennington, and Robert Patterson of Lincoln.
S287 does not require investment of additional funding directly in students, Gov. Phil Scott said. Nor does new spending capacity mean there will be better outcomes.
From small businesses to larger franchises, there seems to have been a disappearance of willing workers. Employers and customers on both sides of the Connecticut River are wondering, “Where is everybody?”
Lt. Tara Thomas will lead the ‘tech police’ of the Vermont State Police. The unit deals with computer, cellphone and cyber-crime, conducts polygraphs, and provides protection for the governor and other dignitaries.
The long-promised buildout of internet connection to rural Vermont towns has begun in Bolton and small Northeast Kingdom communities.
It’s likely that a flurry of petitions will be submitted Thursday, as candidates either procrastinating or holding their cards close to the vest or both deluge the Secretary of State’s Office at the last minute.
A well-heeled couple from California visit Vermont and “just fall in love” with the state, buy an abandoned country store in Woodstock, and then demand major local zoning changes. What could go wrong?
The 2016 campaign manager who critics say threw Hillary Clinton under the bus in testimony Friday was born and raised in Vermont.
The good news is that state courts this year have reversed some egregious gerrymanders.
Persistence paid off for a pair of pro-2A Vermont lawmakers this year, the NRA reports.
UVM Medical Center has joined the Race to Zero, the United Nations-backed global climate action campaign.
A Springfield man living on Vermont’s most dangerous street plraded innocent in federal court last week for possession of a deadly pipe bomb.
An Arlington man charged with bigamy and a threat to a Northeast Kingdom school are among weekend crime reports.
Schools can prohibit foul language, but any child can see that this language is simply not foul.
There have been 94 violent gun incidents in Vermont thus far in 2022, and state leaders say many are connected with the growing fentanyl crisis.
Voyeuristic videos taken in a bathroom at Merrill’s home depicted nude girls, police say.
Over the next three years, refugees from Afghanistan and other nations will be arriving in Rutland.
Weak drug laws and strong demand make Vermont a destination state for drug-traffickers, Gov. Phil Scott stated in his veto letter of a hard drug decrim bill.
Jim Sexton: “More people who self-identify as Republican, then vote for and support the left/far left agenda has nothing to do with more Republicans in the Statehouse.”
“Voting for a carbon tax in order to purposefully drive up Vermonters’ home heating bills in a state as cold as ours is reprehensible,” Redic said in a campaign statement. “To do this at a time of already record high prices and rampant inflation is beyond irresponsible.”
The U.S. government has ordered millions of doses of a vaccine that protects against monkeypox. The news follows the first confirmed case in the states — a man in Massachusetts — following an outbreak in the U.K.
The Chester town librarian has resigned over pushback from the library board about her plans to hold a Drag Queen Story Hour on June 4, the Chester Telegraph reports.
453 Pine Street, Burlington is next to the Pine Street Canal Superfund Site, the location of a coal gasification plant that closed in 1966.
Avian flu is spreading among Vermont’s wild fowl population, Fish & Wildlife reports.
Moose the animal-attacking dog won’t be euthanized but instead is in the supervised custody of a dog-lover in Highgate.
Covid, too many Zoom hearings, the desire to retire, looming fiscal challenges, and just feeling like ‘it’s time’ are among the reasons why lawmakers are leaving in record numbers this year.
California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, via executive order is dictating what Vermont vehicle consumers can and cannot buy, if we go along, but we don’t have to.
The bill claims that leaving forests unmanaged would benefit wildlife habitat and slow climate change – but forest science shows the opposite is true.
A federally-funded grant will move Vermont closer to universal afterschool and summer programs.
The seventh theft of a catalytic converter was unlucky for an alleged Newport thief.
On May 11 the short life of the Clean Heat Standard (CHS), promising “clean heat for a cooler planet,” came to sudden but probably not final end.
“Vermonters expect Democrats and Republicans to work together to make life better for everyone,” former Governor Jim Douglas said yesterday, explaining his decision to support Christina Nolan for U.S. Senator.
Fake news reporter Johnny Bananas says the story of the demise of formulating babies is greatly exaggerated.
Boaters, it is up to you to protect Vermont waters from invasions of exotic plants and animals.
There is no simple “the science” according to which a leader can govern.
A young child was hospitalized following an I-89 rollover accident that ejected her and three other people from a pickup truck.
The oldest daughter of Georg and Maria Von Trapp was a missionary in the Pacific and resident of a kibbutz in Israel.
This is a partisan government office created to pass judgment on any speech that might diminish support for the Biden Administration’s program and performance.
In a sure sign of the Apocalypse, Vermont is running out of lawyers.
A Vermont conservative activist upset with Ben & Jerry’s call to defund the police is urging others to ‘never buy another tub.’
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