Vermont Daily Chronicle

In Vermont we have seen government business delegated permanently to independent companies and sizeable nonprofit organizations in just a few decades.

Scientific environmental debates are important. Breathless news stories about “global average temperatures” and “hottest month on record” are not.

We could have been spending our taxpayer dollars on things like shoring up roads and bridges, strengthening culverts, upgrading sewage treatment facilities, investing in first responders, et alia.

Those flooded out of their homes face a particularly hard time because Vermont is already critically short of inexpensive housing. Some may join the ranks of the long-term unhoused even though they were, literally, staying above water before.

This is neither about democracy or national security: it is about quick corporate profit.

We expect that the excessive flooding and silt will destroy a large share of our produce and livestock feed. In our hilly State, some of our most fertile farmland lies in river valleys. Countless fields of corn, hay, vegetables, fruit, and pasture were swamped and buried.

I thought under-sixteens were old enough to choose live-changing pharmacological gender transition or mutilating surgery.

“Operation Sober Popeye” was the covert military weather modification program to “make mud, not war” during the Vietnam Conflict.

The water level at southwestern Vermont dams was high, but not record high, when seen by one eyewitness.

PETA is implicitly calling for millions of livestock to be euthanized (and/or never created by terminating breeding) in the name of saving them. This also applies to domestic animals.

Parents who notice and complain, says columnist.