Brushing aside previous concerns about a mild recession, Vermont’s economists told panel members that the economy and the state’s revenues are strengthening.
Economists bullish about Vermont’s economy
What’s a mobile home park? A Vermont House bill could change the definition
The bill, H.618, aims to expand the legal definition of mobile home parks to include communities of mobile home owners who own their own lots.
Walgreens in Vermont fined for Covid-era ‘vaccination errors’
Covid-era labor shortages and high demand for vaccines led to poor working conditions and medication/vaccination errors at Vermont’s largest drug store chain.
Stack: Vermont’s education-budget sausage grinding continues
The Act 127 & 173 Follies!
Goddard College closes campus, uninhabited residence halls remain
On Tuesday Goddard College in Plainfield formally shut down on-campus programs in favor of an online-only model which is anticipated to last at least a year.
NRA to testify against ‘ghost gun’ bill
A ‘ghost gun’ and juvenile crime bill appealing to both gun controllers and law ‘n order conservatives will be reviewed in Senate Judiciary Thursday.
Bennington bomb suspect detained
Hayes, 41, intended to use the bomb against the next person who angered him or disrespected him, court records allege.
No place to treat Vermont’s violent children
“In the last year we have seen a higher prevalence of gang activity amongst our youth where they are making videos talking about killing one another, we have seen in the news kids dying, being shot either accidentally or as a result of homicide,” a DCF worker reported to the Legislature.
Scott budgets for psychiatric youth facility, housing and disaster relief – but no new taxes and fees
“Our communities and all those looking for, or struggling to afford, a decent home – they don’t have the lobbyists, the money, or the time to push back on the campaigns we’ve already started to see, to keep you from taking action,” Scott told legislators.
Wilson: VPIRG wants Climate Superfund to pay for U.N. agenda
Everything runs on oil products – right or wrong – and no one can change the whole world.
VT Headlines: Bennington Man charged with possession of a bomb
Vermont woman admits to planning husband’s death; Slate Ridge case now before the Vermont Supreme Court; GlobalFoundries donates high-tech equipment to local high school
Proposed constitutional amendment enhances equality – but not for religion
A previous version of Proposition 4 from 2019 included “religion” between “sex” and “disability.” No more. Some demand to know why.
CLG: Trump cruises in New Hampshire primary election, Haley vows to fight on
Biden wins write-in vote in New Hampshire; U.S. launches new round of airstrikes in Iraq; U.S., Allies Conduct New Strikes Against 8 Houthi Targets in Yemen; Ocean freight rates skyrocketing
Keelan: Requirements to become a town treasurer: not much
Your local licensed barber has far greater required qualifications.
BREAKING NEWS: Senate sustains bottle bill veto
The bottle bill reform bill has failed, thanks to the Senate this morning sustaining Gov. Phil Scott’s veto. No 5 cents back for fruit drink bottles and cans.
Lawmakers will tackle carbon reductions, slavery reparations, library book controversies and more
These bills will be reviewed in legislative committees this week. For more information, including times and agenda, see weekly schedule.
Constitution change would give Legislature more power over sheriffs
“The General Assembly may establish by law qualifications for the election to and holding of such office and procedures for removal from such office for failure to meet or to maintain the required qualifications.”
“You’re all snakes, bro,” 8X F’bomber tells federal court
“I’m done. You all are snakes, bro. You’re (expletive) snakes,” the accused drug dealer and killer said during a 41-minute hearing in U.S. District Court on Friday afternoon.
After Netanyahu rejects two-state solution, Bernie calls for funding cuts
Netanyahu says a Palestinian state would become a launching ground for further attacks against Israel.
Suspect took bar patrons hostage, made Molotov cocktails
A woman inside with her friend described the moment when Lee, amidst a police presence outside, began crafting Molotov cocktails. Reacting to the escalating danger, she grabbed a bar stool, struck Lee, and fled with her friend.
VT Headlines: Vermont public transit system faces funding crisis
21 skiers and snowboarders rescued from Killington’s backcountry Saturday; Northfield woman receives nearly 170 gallons of free fuel from nonprofit; Vt. Organic Farming Association receives $1 million
Feds spend big for Vermont climate mitigation planning
The $2.5 million grant (plus $456K for staff) is “phase one of a two-phase funding opportunity aimed to support Vermont with climate change mitigation planning efforts.”
Eshelman: School closing bill the point of the tyrannical spear
H.634 is the point of the tyrannical spear aimed to eliminate the statutory language that has empowered Vermont’s School Choice programs for decades.
Head-on collision in fourth DUI
An Island Pond man pleaded guilty to DUI-4 and other charges almost three years after his truck collided with a van.
Three dead in Littleton
Especially lethal drugs are suspected. Tell your drug-abusing friends and loved ones.
Roper: The last Democrat pay raise bill was greedy. This one’s also corrupt.
“Poverty for thee, but not for me!”
Mary Fletcher Hospital opened 145 years ago today
Pioneering medical education in Vermont: January 22, 1879
State climate agenda required to deliver federal $$$, Climate councilor tells legislature
Vermont received $32 million of federal carrots to set carbon reduction goals.
Eviction not allowed because lease expires, Montpelier charter change proposes
Landlords won’t be allowed to make tenants leave just because their lease has expired, a proposed Montpelier city charter change says.
VT Headlines: Mayor Miro Weinberger proposes increase of public safety tax
VTSU offers free tuition for some in-state students; More Vermont police departments eyeing EVs; Stolen car damages South Burlington Police cruisers
CLG: Florida Gov. DeSantis drops out, endorses Trump
WHO director calls for world pandemic treaty to prepare for Disease X; UN condemns Ukrainian attack that killed 27 civilians in Russian city; U.S. preparing for ‘sustained’ Yemen bombing campaign
MacDonald: NH seeks to ban cloud seeding and other atmospheric geoengineering
If we lack any sense of transparency, limits, or regulation, we might find ourselves subject to man-caused atmospheric effects without knowledge of recourse.
No law against snow on your car, but….
There’s no law (yet) against driving your car with a foot of snow on the roof. But Montpelier police warn what can happen if you do.
Paul: Lessons from the Great Covid Cover-up
We the American people must not allow bureaucratic “experts” to endanger our lives, lie to us, or curtail our constitutional rights. Never again.
Ryan: Socrates and the failure of democracy
Basically, Democracy means we can rule on anything we like, as long as 50% of people say we can. That is about as dangerous a rule as I’ve ever heard.
Bananas: CBS to air ‘Survivor: Burlington’
As they scoured the world looking for the best urban challenge they were shocked to find Burlington has a D- crime, in the top 10% least safe cities in the United States.
Woodstock Foundation seeks six-month delay in lawsuit
The plaintiffs will fight any effort to sidetrack the case, their primary local lawyer Michael F. Hanley of Plante & Hanley in White River Junction said this week.
LaMarche: The new digital highwaymen
Supposedly ‘equity’ minded lawmakers want to cover Vermont highways with traffic cameras that elsewhere have led to ‘disproportionate’ traffic ticketing for minorities.
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PUC gets new chair / Senate OKs flood tax relief / No recession expected
The new chair of the state’s energy and telecommunications court most recently served as chief lawyer for the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR).
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What does Burlington need? Fewer asylum seekers, less drugs, more cops, more God, people say
“There’s needles everywhere. There’s an ATM on Church Street right over there and it often has needles in it or burned up aluminum foil. And then there’s the camping. So there’s just a general, I would say, lawlessness in Burlington right now.”
VT Headlines: Stowe Winter Carnival underway
Closing of Putney Paper Mill a shock, local lawmaker says; Sen. Peter Welch calls for Federal standard of reproductive rights; Shelters expanding hours, staffing ahead of strong wind chills Saturday
St. Paul St. drug bust/ Teen charged after gunfire incident / Brooklyn man arrested after car chase
Gunfire, car chase and crash in the South End of Burlington. Drug bust on St. Paul Street.
Senate bill decriminalizes ‘personal use’ drug dealing
S.300 would decriminalize ‘personal use’ sale of methamphetimines, depressants, LSD, ecstasy, and narcotics other than fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.
Williams: Opposing H634 means preserving opportunity for our children
Shouldn’t quality, cost, convenience, what’s best for children, and local control be the driving forces behind these decisions — not the legislature?
Thayer: No such thing as a “safe injection site”
Vermont taxpayers paying for this bad behavior to stay high and unproductive in society, and to never seek help – how is that safe or right?
Vermont advocates renew push for single payer system
Critics say the proposal would add another layer of taxation to a state struggling to remain competitive by reducing the high cost of living.
City to remove Battery Park homeless camp
The people are being relocated this week. Property and debris will be removed next week, the mayor’s office says.
Climate Superfund bill seeks retroactive carbon tax on Big Oil, back to 2000
A bill introduced into the House would require Big Oil to pay into a climate change Superfund.
Voluntary paid family leave starts Feb. 13
Gov. Scott’s voluntary program provides partial income replacement for workers who need to take care of a family member. A mandatory PFL bill didn’t pass last year but could return this session.
Roper: My constituents want school choice and must be stopped!
Rep. Laura Sibilia introduces legislation intentionally opposed to her constituents’ interests.
126 years ago today, fire destroyed Barre Opera House
A glimpse into the devastating fire of January 18, 1898.
Grand Isle Democrat voter from West Coast warns against safe injection sites
“The substance use disorder population has boomed since safe injection sites were started.”
VT Headlines: VT lawmakers revisit single-payer universal health care
Burlington mayoral candidates debate for 1st time; North Country lawmaker seeks increased funding for nursing homes; Vermont doctors, patients seek living kidney donors
UVM doctors seek living kidney donors
People who donate one kidney can continue to live healthy lives with their remaining kidney.
Evslin: A cease fire in Gaza will not make Hamas go away
It’s like ending crime by defunding the police.
Man suing to bump Trump off Vermont ballot indicted for tax fraud
Castro charges that Trump gave direction, “aid and comfort” to ‘insurrectionist’ Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol January 6.
Frenier: The limits of intersectionality
All social theories sooner or later are shown to be flawed. This is because no theory, no matter how brilliant, can capture all of reality.
Which state employees earn more than Phil Scott?
Ahead of Scott (#94) is a “who’s that?” roster of UVM deans, administrators and professors.
Rebuffed suitor shoots 12 rounds into home
Charest allegedly sent notes expressing romantic interest and was previously warned by police to stop.
Children could shoot up in ‘safe injection sites,” GOP lawmakers warn
The bill’s sponsor says it’s up to the Health Department to establish any age-limit guidelines.
Legislature considers keeping reporters, public out of Truth & Reconciliation Commission meetings
An appointed state committee with influence on the reparations debate wants to meet without press and public physically present.
Burlington City Council delays police oversight vote
“This…this sucks,” Progressive Councilor Joe Magee said before storming out of City Hall.
Video: James Wilson and the American globe
One of Vermont’s claims to fame is James Wilson- a Bradford resident who produced the first globe in the Americas in 1802.
Conversations about conflict at Burlington High School
Teachers at Burlington High School are facing hard decisions about how to discuss the Israeli-Hamas war in class–or if they should discuss it at all.
VT Headlines: Should VT municipalities sign on to statewide ethics code?
St. Johnsbury hospital seeing surge in respiratory illness; Will this be the year Vermont bans flavored tobacco sales?; Vt. auditor finds ‘consequential mistakes’ in Burlington TIF accounting
Galfetti: Safe injection or throwing money in the fire?
A 12-year old child could walk in without a parent or guardian and proceed to “shoot up,” no questions asked.
Whitaker: Vermont’s dispatching mess
The State may need to forfeit the $9M in a budget year when every dollar counts.
Despathy: Supermajority bills usurp parent rights over healthcare, local control of energy, schools
If big government ever earns a final epitaph, it will be this ‘Here lies a contrivance engineered by know-it-alls who broke eggs with abandon but never, ever created an omelet.”
Davis: Infringing on freedom
Vermont’s ongoing battle for gun rights.
Ehlers: Why does the Colchester Selectboard hate canaries (and clean water)?
Malletts Bay – proclaimed the Jewel of Lake Champlain – is degrading faster than any other section of lake, and it is because of development.
VIDEO: Behind the story of Milton High kneeling for the national anthem
“Can you imagine being called names daily because of the color of your skin? I can’t. I can not place myself in these children’s shoes,” a Milton mother says.
Rep. Jim Harrison: Making a point about legislative pay?
Pay the governor the same as legislators? Some Dem lawmakers are trying to make a point.
School curriculum sides with Palestinians, promotes socialism
Class on social movements and protest requires students to highlight work of Palestinian social movements, no equal time for Jewish, Israeli movements.
Milton High School Board flunks new flagpole for political flags
Milton High is not the only school debating whether to bring down its BLM flag, members of the Champlain Valley School District School Board are considering taking theirs down as well.
CLG: Trump projected winner of Iowa GOP caucuses
DeSantis poised for second, Haley third in Iowa GOP caucuses; Iran fires missiles at ‘terrorists and spies’ near U.S. consulate; Houthis hit U.S. ship with missile
VT Headlines: Barre’s ‘cliffhangers’ in limbo as city considers landslide buyouts
Anti-war protesters target Vergennes weapons facility; Split Council Restores Firefighter Job, OKs Budget – tax rate would go up 4.56%; Winooski FD responds to repeat structure fire on Main Street
Warner: VT GOP – call me crazy, but….
If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. (Galatians 5:15)
Roper: Stop forcing EVs down our throats
Soviet-style central planning does not work!
Teen arrested for attempted murder by car
Video shows an attempted murder victim being flipped into the air by a car police say was driven by an 18-year-old South Burlington man.
Man arrested for shooting three Palestinian students posted pro-Hamas statements
“The notion that Hamas is evil for defending their state from occupation is absurd,” wrote the man charged with shooting three Palestinian men in Burlington in November.
Double-digit school tax hike doesn’t include $6.3 billion needed soon to replace old buildings
The estimated cost of upgrading buildings statewide is $6.3 billion over 20 years – and that number may be too optimistic, officials say.
Wheeler: Political outage!
Recently someone complaining about one of the sad policies in our State blurted out: “Someone has a lot of work to do!” It never occurred to this person that the “someone” included them!
Drunken hit-and-run tailgater victimizes 75-year-old woman: police
A 75-year-old Concord woman was victimized by a drunk driver who tailgated and repeatedly struck her vehicle, police say.
VT Headlines: Man arrested after stabbing person with sharp object several times
Leaders from across U.S. gather at Burlington’s City Hall to honor MLK; Lawmakers consider requiring home sellers and landlords to disclose flood risks; Utility crews make headway on Vermont outages
Klar: Is a nuclear renaissance on the horizon?
Proponents of climate change action are increasingly coming to terms with the factual reality that renewable energy manufacturing cannot possibly provide the baseload of power the world requires.
LaMarche: The misspent millions
This crisis is solvable. But state leaders’ proclivity for short-term, wasteful solutions, hinders effective and lasting change.
Wilson: Europe, America, Vermont falling to globalist U.N. agenda
This all seems like we are paying for our own destruction.
First out-of-stater dies by assisted suicide
Cancer patient Lynda Bluestein became the first person from out of state to die via “assisted suicide” in Vermont.
Motel 6 ad pitchman Bodett gets grant to renovate Brattleboro arts center
The man who said “I’m Tom Bodett, and we’ll leave the light on for you” is renovating a Brattleboro arts building with a state grant.
Vote to oust GOP county chair and Democrat donor not recognized by state committee
Several committee members have expressed outrage that McGovern made donations to national Democratic candidates.
Eshelman: Traditional public school vs. tuitioned school choice
With School Choice Tuitioning there is a choice. In a monopolized traditional public-school format, parents get what they get.
Video shows state trooper’s heroic rescue of eight-year-old girl
The thin ice gave way, and two children fell into the water. The 80-year-old homeowner was able to reach and pull to safety a 6-year-old girl who was close to shore.
High school hoopsters kneel during National Anthem, online stir ensues
The post gained a lot of attention from parents, players, and community members in Northfield and Milton.
House redefines domestic abuse to include ‘coercion’
The House approved a bill that would give judges wider perameters for granting a relief from abuse order.
Banned chemicals PCBs found in East Montpelier’s U-32, remediation underway
U-32 Middle and High School in East Montpelier has joined dozens of schools in the state testing positive for the toxins, also called polychlorinated biphenyls.
Cole: Against unlimited government
Apparently, our legislators see the boundaries and shrug them off. This is akin to me getting elected and proposing a ban on all abortions despite the recent limits on abortion restrictions Vermonters put into the state constitution.
Bill proposes voluntary gun license
In return for a waiver of the 72-hour waiting period, voluntary gun license applicants would be required to provide detailed information about themselves and their family members.
VT Headlines: Legal online sports betting officially launches in Vermont
Vermonters still without power ahead of winter storm forecasted on Friday; Swanton Village voters to weigh public safety expansion; Vt. lawmakers revisit flavored-tobacco ban
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