Just stay home and save your vote for the November election, the robocaller told Democrat voters.
Man behind Biden robocall indicted
VT Headlines: Ambulance service honors, struggles
As one town ambulance service receives a national honor, another struggles to find EMTs.
Landowners paid to store carbon
Close to 500 landowners have expressed interest in being paid around $300 an acre, dispersed over a 20-year period, for preserving forestland.
Cops provide photo of suspect in brutal day-time beating
If the courts won’t jail violent repeat offenders, can we at least know what they look like?
New laws shield abortion/transgender care providers from lawsuits
The law forbids police, courts, and other public institutions from cooperating with litigation against abortion/transgender services providers in some circumstances.
John Rodgers to run for Lt. Governor
A former Democratic Legislator and State Senator to run for Statewide office as a Republican
Banzhaf: Some pro-Hamas campus protests violate IRS Code – others don’t
Aid illegal Palestine protests, lose tax exemption
VT Headlines: Direct flight to North Carolina for under $100
Heading south? New flight will get you there on the cheap. Black restaurant owner honored with statue in Rutland. GOP optimistic.
Public defender emerges as federal judge frontrunner
Lanthier, a public defender for more than 20 years, oversees a handful of lawyers who represent indigent defendants in Rutland County.
Scott opposes methods, not goals, of likely veto bills
“Sometimes the Legislature focuses so much on their goals they don’t consider the unintended consequences. And the reality is, there are almost always some negative consequences as the result of new policies,” Scott said.
Feds selling emergency gasoline reserve to lower prices for July 4 weekend
A million barrels of gasoline set aside for emergency use in the next disaster will be sold to reduce prices at the pump this summer.
Langer: Vermont’s energy affordability conundrum
When it comes to energy affordability, 2024 may be the year Vermonters look back on as the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Fernandez: Pro-HAMAS activities at UVM and Middlebury
Many of these impressionable imps of ignorance hide their entities behind keffiyehs and hijabs, but remain oblivious to this conflict’s facts.
Beekeeper abuzz about vetoed neonicotinoid ban
It is increasingly more expensive to keep and repopulate his hives, the vetoed bill’s sponsor said, because colonies are dying at faster rates in recent years.
Chicken predation and how to protect them
Many first-time small-scale poultry farmers are discovering that several species of wildlife like the taste of chicken as much as we do.
Vermont search and rescues are rising
More and more people are trekking off-path without being prepared, increasing the danger, say those in the field.
Despathy: Tap Trees. Not Vermonters!
Vermonters hold legitimate fears and anxiety about the decisions made by our Democratic supermajority.
LaMarche: The Progressive pass
Somehow it is OK when their former equity contractor, now mayor, who ran on equity, defunds the very equity initiatives they fought for.
Judge says bye-bye to ‘Bye-Bye!’ pipe bomber
Bye bye to the federal pen for six years for a Valley Street, Springfield heroin dealer convicted of possession of a pipe bomb.
State to issue summer EBT cards to supplement school meals
This new benefit provides $120 per child, which families can use to purchase fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, and fish, dairy products; breads and cereals, and other foods such as snack foods and non-alcoholic beverages.
Christopher Rufo peers inside Pritzker transgender empire
by Aaron Warner Christopher Rufo has emerged as one of the most strident opponents to woke culture. Raised by a family who embraced communist ideology, Rufo broke from his family’s way of […]
UVM cancels big housing project
UVM can’t afford to build new housing it proposed last year, due to unexpectedly high costs. That, and the City of Burlington has yet to follow through with necessary zoning changes.
Gov. Phil Scott appoints Andy Julow to Vermont Senate
Julow replaces Richard T. Mazza, who resigned last month after serving 39 years in the Vermont Senate.
Zito plans ‘Vermont Awakening’ camp meeting week of July 4
Tommie Zito’s American Awakening Tour
Miss Vermont 2015 awarded UVM medical degree
Family, friends, faculty and staff will gather in UVM’s Ira Allen Chapel on Sunday, May 19, at 3:00 p.m. to celebrate the more than 100 students receiving M.D.s
Kansas City Chiefs owner Tavia Hunt supports Harrison Butker
“Defending Motherhood is not bigoted”
Klar: Police forces finally see a post-Floyd rebound
Hiring increases reported for first time since 2020.
Roper: Media Bias at NPR, the New York Times… and Vermont Media?
Will national mea culpas from Uri Berliner and Nellie Bowles be followed by anyone at, say, VTDigger?
Pesticide ban won’t help bees but will hurt farmers, Scott veto says
Agreeing that “pollinators are essential,” Gov. Scott said “the same is true of farmers” and that the bill is “more anti-farmer than it is pro-pollinator.”
Friday at 4: Trafficked women in VT forced into abortions
Last Friday’s episode unveils disturbing truth about human trafficking victims who do NOT have freedom of choice about abortions. This Friday we discuss “Taxes for Thee, But Not For Me.”
VT Headlines: 3 years to replace crashed fire truck/ VT-made car charger installed
The crash that led to the death of a responding state trooper and eventually to the resignation of the local fire chief now also means a three-year wait for a new fire truck.
Scott picks press Maulucci to lead re-election
Turnover at top of the Scott administration. Sanders applauds international arrest warrants for Israel, Hamas. Sportsmen flag animal welfare bill.
Taxes the Legislature passed, taxes it didn’t
The Wealth Tax passed the House but not the Senate this year. One tax hike that went through with little notice: landline and postpaid wireless phone use taxes will be assessed differently and collect $3 million more new revenue.
State senate primary races develop
Ledbetter said, “We need a lot more housing that working people can afford or we risk losing a generation of young Vermonters now spending almost all of their paychecks on rent.”
On the court or on the mound, VT Miss Basketball Elise Berger does it all
The best player in Vermont girls hoops this year is set to play college baseball — get to know Elise Berger.
Vermont postal woes linger long after pandemic
Staffing shortages in Waterbury are among post office problems across Vermont that have disrupted deliveries and inconvenienced residents.
MEMORIAL MONTH: Seth Warner: Vermont’s oft-neglected hero
In the tumultuous political landscape of late 1770s and early 1780s Vermont, Battle of Bennington hero Seth Warner found himself at odds with the dominant forces shaping the state’s future.
LETTERS: Salat on Zuckerman, Green on pro-Hamas writer
Responses to Marxist victimizing and anti-Semitic statements.
Angwin: The unknowns of offshore wind power
It is clear to me that offshore is not as steady as the pro-wind rhetoric would have you believe.
Suspect in brutal, random beating of elderly man cited, released by court
In what Vermont city did a transient this weekend approach an 82-year-old man at random, knock him unconscious, then get released with a citation by the court hours later?
A letter from poets to the Governor and Vt. Legislature
Recently the State government has chosen to diminish the quality and diversity of Vermont’s educational offerings at our State colleges.
Dawson: Vermont pollen season longer, worse now
By taking steps to improve indoor air quality during these seasons, Vermonters can keep their homes healthy and allergy symptoms at bay.
Bronze Star recipient runs for State Representative
The ribbon isn’t “his,” it’s “theirs.”
Breaking: Dean won’t run
“Gov. Scott’s a popular governor. My polling shows that the most important issue for Vermonters is taxation. And the governor has talked a lot about this,” Dean told reporters.
VT Headlines: DQSH protests in Lyndonville
Protesting drag queen story hour at library. EV forklifts. Support after miscarriage. BIPOC professionals survey. UVM graduation, bass, bus fares.
Stack: Young people, you’re being punked
In layman’s terms, the Fed is going to keep the financial heroin in the system.
Tunbridge couple shelters farm animals
The couple formed the sanctuary in 2017, first in the town of Washington, then in 2019 they moved their setup to Tunbridge.
Fellow governor stumps for Trump while Scott looks on
Make America Great Again!, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum urged the state GOP convention as Trump foe and fellow Gov. Phil Scott watched.
Volatile health trends, Covid drive big health insurance rate hikes
Blue Cross Blue Shield and MVP health insurance companies each are requesting state approval of rate increases for monthly health insurance premiums.
Judge challenges State lawyer on pregnancy center law
Judge Sessions rejoined, “They may very well be saying things that you perceive to be false. Say, about the consequences of abortion….I wonder if that would be a reasonable concern for them.”
More claims added in Woodstock Foundation lawsuit
The ongoing legal battle has generated considerable interest because the Foundation and Holdings play a major role in the economy of the Woodstock region.
Roper: The Clean Heat Standard public engagement fiasco
No public show up; person hired to explain the program admits he doesn’t understand it; reveals chaos behind the scenes.
Federal trial ends for Moffitt
A Bennington man, who is awaiting a state court trial in a 2019 homicide case, was convicted in Fed. court in Burlington on three gun and drug charges Thursday.
Hucking hatchets: Axe throwing shop opens in Hardwick
Palilonis and Benham have been in Hardwick for 12 years and run their taqueria for eight years. “This is just an extension of the taqueria,” Palilonis said. “We’re trying to draw people here to Hardwick, and it’s not easy.”
VT announces 14-bed youth treatment site in Vergennes
The new site on state-owned land will have more than double the capacity of the now-abandonred planned facility in Newbury.
Burlington man pleads innocent to child luring
Charbonneau allegedly initiated contact online via Kik messenger with a Hartford investigator posing as a 14-year-old minor and engaged in sexual conversations, attempting to arrange a meeting for sexual acts.
VT Headlines: Well, THAT didn’t take long
Days after Notch opens, truck escapes stuckage. 8 new invasive species. Welch all about Rural Prosperity. VT goes to Drone Championships.
Hairstyle hiring law really about racial discrimination
If someone chose not to hire a person due to their hairstyle, it could be construed as an act of racism.
Klar: Vermonters strive to preserve their way of life against false charges of racism
Vermont is a culture of individualism, not government dependency; farming, not commuting; free speech, not stifling autocracy; of seeing all people as equal.
Pregnancy resource centers challenge Vermont law in court today
Vermont’s law impedes women’s ability to receive critical services during a difficult time in their lives and suppresses the free-speech rights of faith-based pregnancy centers, ADF lawyers argue.
State effort to reduce Lake Carmi algae makes it worse
Aeration “resulted in much higher surface water total phosphorus and stronger, more protracted cyanobacteria blooms.”
Judge shaves off sentence of drug dealer turned barber
As Judge William Sessions put it, he had “earned his freedom” by leaving the business of drug trafficking entirely and working hard to alter the direction of his life.
SHORTS: Cops, math whizzes honored/ masked intruder slain
Cops honored for saving lives. Man with drug record shot and killed while invading St. J. home. Postmaster presses pause on WRJ relo plan.
VT Headlines: Child injured after running in front of moving school bus
The 12-year-old suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Weight loss drug could bankrupt health care system, Sanders warns
Sanders releases report exposing how weight loss drugs could bankrupt American health care.
Speech therapist launches Stuttering Awareness Week
She began focusing on public awareness of differing speech patterns after a patient who stuttered died by suicide at age 12 in 2020.
Ertelt: Lauren Handy thrown in prison for 57 months for protesting abortion
The Biden administration used the FACE Act to prosecute her for supposedly blocking access to abortion.
Professional licensing “regardless of immigration status” becomes state law
The law lets “individuals who meet the requirements for professional licenses to be granted those licenses regardless of their immigration status or lack thereof.”
Despathy: Digging into the destructive Clean Heat Standard
While still in the design phase at the Public Utilities Commission, the economic devastation of Act 18 is already hitting home for small fuel dealers.
Scott will veto school funding bill
Scott wonders how many legislators actually read, much less understood, the 60 bills passed in the final week.
Bill calling for psychedelic mushroom research sent to Scott
Initially, the bill would’ve decriminalized psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms. But after a variety of doctors questioned whether there was enough research on the hallucinogenic, the Senate took it out.
Keelan: Israel is not the problem; Iran is and has been
Washington, wake up. History should have taught us, particularly the history of the 1930s, the cost of waiting, of vacillating.
MEMORIAL MONTH: Woman witnessed Battle of Bennington, Smugglers’ Riot
Lost her home to a savage British raid and her menfolk to captivity by the British forces.
VT Headlines: Stuckage Highway opens for season
When will the first big rig get stuck in Smugglers Notch? Health care rates to climb by double digits. Thom Lauzon is BACK in the Barre mayor’s seat.
Progressive Burlington mayor defunds the DEI
Created with federal pandemic funding as a response to the purported public health emergency of systemic racism, the city’s DEI office is a victim of the $13 million budget shortfall.
Perps beat cops in St. J
Judge Michael Kainen released a repeat convicted felon to be treated for an eye injury after he pleaded innocent Monday to misdemeanor assault on a protected professional.
‘Place-based’ Act 250 housing bill details explained
Tier 3 consists of “critical resource areas” where any activity within will more than likely trigger Act 250 jurisdiction and would, by some estimates, cover about 18% of the state’s land mass.
2024 session highlights: retail theft reform, 13.8% property tax, new taxes
A high-level overview of what the Legislature did on housing, public safety, and affordability.
Woislaw: Snooping listers must follow Constitution
Snooping in the area close to the home, which courts call the “curtilage,” is flatly forbidden by the federal constitution.
Vermont filmmaker seeking funding to wrap up murder mystery
He has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $5,000 for equipment costs, locations rental, and wages for the cast and crew.
Wildlife management bill dead in the water
Part of the bill aimed to ban hunters from using dogs and bait — without a trappers’ license — to hunt coyotes in the state.
Drag Queen Story Time coming to Lyndonville library, local resistance forms
A Massachusetts-based group plans to come to Lyndonville to support local resistance to a drag queen story hour currently scheduled at the library for this Saturday.
Roper: Howard Dean Vs. Phil Scott? Yes, Please!
As a well-funded, big-name headliner, Howard Dean will force Phil Scott to campaign. For real.
State government body to meet behind closed doors
Secret testimony allowed in $1.1 million state government body, because “the politics are sensitive.” Plus, the bill’s veto-proof.
Copper market explodes, Chinese pot growers suck up power
As the shutdown of Orange County copper mines continues, the market for copper has exploded due to electrification.
VT Headlines: Slain rookie cop to be honored in D.C.
Burlington copes with $13 million deficit. Balint in Barre for mental health help for flood victims. Barre picking new mayor
Ex-Marble Valley guard cited for smuggling contraband into jail
It was discovered that Orvis had worked together with at least two inmates to bring illegal items into Marble Valley Correctional.
And…. they’re off!
“I’ve come to realize I cannot step away at a time when Vermont’s Legislature is so far out of balance, so I’ve decided to run for reelection to keep working for you,” Scott said.
New Director of Elections named
Election, mail sorting, turtle-crossing, and Coronal Mass Ejection news.
13.8% property tax increase passes
On the last day of the 2024 session, the Vermont Legislature passed a state budget, school funding, Act 250 reform, and a slew of lesser-known bills.
Harrison: Veto session a safe bet
While I may have lost the adjournment pool, it is a very safe bet there will be gubernatorial vetoes over the next several weeks.
Vermont has third-highest tax burden
#3 in taxes, after New York and Hawaii.
CLG: European hawks readying for war with Russia
Ukraine using British weapons for terror attacks; Germany ‘considers conscripting all 18-year-olds’ amid fears of all-out NATO war with Russia
Bear attack hoaxer arrested for shooting at house
Bear hoaxer busted again.Cop tased with his own taser. Uncle, nephew die in homicide-suicide. Cow dies in freeway collision.
Bananas: NCAA creates new Interscholastic Protest League
The league will be named the Collegiate Radical Interscholastic Protest League (CRIPL) and will be the first ever truly trans-ed sports endeavor by the NCAA.
VT Headlines: Fighting knotweed with goats
Rural blight fight: knotweed-eating goats. Urban blight fight: limiting the junk left at curbside by departing college students.
VDC-TV: Housing for Me, But Not For Thee
Guy and Paul look at where the other half live – you know, the people deciding our kids will live in towns and cities.
Rutland-Addison voters reject school budget for third time
Voters in the Slate Valley region declined a budget $211,000 less than the Town Meeting budget.
Critics question VT’s plan for a new women’s prison
Vermont’s only women’s prison is half a century old and in terrible shape. The state has set aside millions for a new facility, but construction is years away.
Swanton Sector border continues to see all-time record illegal crossings
In one week, from April 28 to May 4, agents apprehended 492 illegal border crossers, more than the total apprehensions for all of fiscal 2021 of 365.
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