Law-abiding citizens who are under threat have a right to defend themselves, and to quote Martin Luther King: “A right delayed is a right denied”.
Law-abiding citizens who are under threat have a right to defend themselves, and to quote Martin Luther King: “A right delayed is a right denied”.
Vermont will take the bronze medal in the High Tax Olympics if the Legislature gets all it wants in increased spending, Gov. Phil Scott’s lead tax man said today.
Newly elected Democratic State’s Attorney John Lavoie should resign, the state office overseeing sheriffs and state’s attorneys says.
Democrat rule has placed Vermont in hospice while we wait for it to die like every other Democrat-run hell-hole in America.
Carbon-taxing S.5 will be the main event of a veto session in June. The possible undercard looks pretty interesting, too.
A key lawmaker admits S.5 won’t do much to reduce global carbon emissions. So why does she still support it?
One panelist, a self-described climate realist, listed doomsday predictions gone wrong from the likes of Al Gore and Greta Thunberg.
This session’s gun control bill has passed the Senate and now returns to the House for reconciliation.
Burlington City Council votes to rename airport for Patrick Leahy; Councilors pitch plan to allow camping in Burlington city parks; Tuskegee Airman receives honorary doctorate from Norwich University
Released by a Vermont judge on minimal bail, two accused St. J drug dealers went home to Connecticut and shot store clerks, police say. A woman 22 months pregnant survived. Another clerk didn’t.
If you’re considering ‘tactical mowing,’ remember the dandelions.
If an illegal immigrant who was deported four times murders five neighbors, is it still the gun’s fault?
“Sir! I have a plan…”
Seth Pajcic, son of founding partner Gary Pajcic, is licensed to practice law in Vermont, is a Vermont resident and has expanded the firm to Vermont with an office in his hometown of Grafton.
Governor Scott often is the voice of forgotten Vermonters and has become the conscience of the state.
It’s not the most discussed feature of this year’s housing bill, but the ban on town restrictions of homeless housing may have highly visible consequences.
The pregnant doe was found alive and was euthanized due to its injuries.
Vermont suffers its second gravel bike race fatality in eight months. And a mom charged with DUI, resulting in the death of her 11-year-old son.
In addition to announcing that thousands of Vermonters have urged him to oppose S.5, Sen. Dick Sears appears to have a clearer understanding of how the carbon-reduction bill will harm businesses.
We are the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network, a statewide group of students working to promote anti-racism in our schools and communities.
Missing Vermont girl found safe; Jay Peak to cut propane use; 2 missing after Brattleboro crash
Hydro-Quebec could run out of power. Oliver Stone pro-nuclear film screens tonight in Montpelier. More on State spending, appointments.
More anti-harrassment protections for employees? Check. For renters? Check. For students? Wait a minute…..
The Thetford Selectboard has an item related to No Mow May on tonight’s meeting agenda after at least one town committee endorsed the strategy.
I have a hard time going along with the “do as I say” folks when the “not as I do” is as obvious and in my face as it is.
Dan Kiley brought the geometry and formality of European gardens to cityscapes and country retreats around the world.
The arrogant and “we know best” attitude that has now consumed our legislature is by far the worst in Vermont’s history.
Punishing and charging fossil fuel dealers to “pay” to continue to distribute their necessary products is cruel and will result in higher costs to Vermonters for heating fuel.
Those that heat with wood, electricity, or natural gas receive special treatment and become a protected class in S.5 while continuing to pour carbon into the atmosphere.
Gov. Scott has vetoed S.5, the carbon emissions reduction bill he says punishes rather than helps Vermonters, and has a confusing and contradictory check-back provision.
A Senate bill would give 12-year-olds the right to access medical care for sexually-transmitted diseases without parental permission, and in most cases without parental knowledge.
Bears spotted in Williston: Vermont Fish & Wildlife receive reports of animals in trash; Judge approves release of Vt. student accused of planning attack at college
Fatal drug overdoses are up 500% since 2010. And Narcan may not work as well in reversing overdoses when other drugs are added to opioids.
Trout Stocking to Resume at Goshen Dam This Spring; VTF&W to Hold Deer Hearings May 9 and 17
The case for frugal use of old cars and trucks.
What does our government actually use our money for? Comedian JP Sears and We Lie to You News tells all!
“There shouldn’t be anything unique about this care,” a VT Health Dept. advisor said. “It’s simply the last decision made between a patient and a doctor through the lifetime of the patient.”
“That is the problem, we have this elite group who nobody knows how they were formed, who chose who to be in it, ” Annette Smith says.
As a result of Pres. Donald Trump’s appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices, Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman said. “We are seeing the traditional institutional norms and balance and respect for the system being completely upended by a tyrannical minority.”
A lawyer, former legislator and self-described expert in debt collection was cited yesterday for placing an Airtag tracker on a woman’s car.
Speaking of rats, Kennedy ties a bow around his expose by mentioning the captured agencies and names of those who knowingly lie about their culpability.
Vt. lawmakers inch closer to passing flavored tobacco ban; Apartments to open for UVM Health Network workers; Vermont Senate approves $8B budget in preliminary vote
Stefanik also called on President Biden to work with House Republicans, who represent the American people, to address our nation’s spending and debt crisis.
Today, Rep. Becca Balint, a member of the House Budget Committee, voted against the “Default on America Act,” claims “House Republicans are threatening an economic disaster.”
SPEAK is an acronym for “Students, Parents, and Educators for Achievement through Knowledge”.
The debate was sparked during discussions of S.115, a miscellaneous agriculture bill that began in the Senate before moving to the House.
In plain English, if you believe you are unfairly or extralegally regulated by a Federal agency, you now have a constitutional right to have that dispute settled by an independent third party judge
A Chittenden County school is teaching sex ed to middle schoolers without using the words male and female, or man and woman.
A pizzeria owner spent $660,000 in federal ‘paycheck protection’ money to buy an alpaca farm.
Eight Democrat/Progressives broke ranks last week with House leadership’s support for S.5, the carbon-taxing ‘Affordable Heating Act.’
Bernie Sanders endorses Biden, rules out 2024 bid of his own; Are human services budget increases making an impact?; Vermont sees significant increase in organ donor registrations
“Many community members have told us they do not feel comfortable reporting bias incidents to the police or feel that is not an effective option,” a Hate Free Forum organizer says.
A middle school teacher took voyeuristic videos of female students at school and had secret cameras installed in several residential bathrooms.
A new Vermont GOP subcommittee will study the effect of universal mail-in ballots, drop boxes, and other innovations on election integrity.
House leaders explain why they voted yes in last Thursday’s 98-46 vote to approve the Affordable Heat Act.
Promise that “nothing would move forward without affirmative action by the future legislature,” is shown to be very, very false.
Native Vermonter & Norwich Cadet
Decriminalizing hard drug use is a good idea because ‘we know from our history that prohibition doesn’t work,’ a state senator says. Actually…..
Democrats have become emboldened to not only ignore the voices of the Republican minority, but they have now decided that they do not need to listen to the very voters who elected them to office.
Efficiency Vermont is another classic Vermont case whereby a nonprofit can capture large hundreds of millions of dollars with little input from the public about where and how the money is spent.
Punched a woman rescue worker. Punched a woman cop. Punched another woman cop. Punched a woman prison guard. So the police reports show.
As many of you were yesterday upon hearing Fox News Network was “parting ways” with Tucker Carlson, the shock was sudden but the surprise was short-lived.
Artificial intelligence is the same kind of challenge to the (over-) educated class that globalization was to those without a college degree.
Neighbors complain of problems around Burlington’s pod community;
Vermont State University reverses library & athletics change; Serial robber sentenced to 7 years in prison
An alleged car thief is apprehended when, parked on the side of a rural highway, he is the victim of a collision.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will is America’s most widely read political columnist, and its foremost conservative voice.
Hyundais and Kias are easy marks for car thieves. Vermont’s Attorney General wants them recalled and retrofitted.
In their 2023 Best of Business Awards, Vermont Business Magazine named One Day In July the best Financial Planning / Investment Firm in the state as voted on by their readers.
The Clean Heat Standard bill (S.5) is designed to shield the law from the charge of being a carbon tax – although it will have precisely the same effect on consumers.
Air BnB’s aren’t to blame – much – for Vermont’s housing crisis.
Dr. Horace “Sandy” Reider will join Great Barrington Declaration co-author Martin Kulldorf at Dartmouth College Wednesday, April 26.
If Gov. Phil Scott vetoes S.5, what happens then is a toss-up and will decide whether S.5 becomes law or just the latest in a string of failed forced carbon emissions reduction bills.
What happened Saturday, April 15 wasn’t some big evangelist outreach, it was a movement of God, a cross-carrying evangelist says.
Medicaid reenrollment is underway, and it’s complicated; Phil Scott looks to Canada as a possible source for abortion pill, but Vermont’s drug importation plan is stuck in government bureaucracy
The Vermont Emergency Forum to Assess the Respiratory Hazards of Masks will be held Friday, May 12 from 9:00 – 4:30 pm, at Burlington City Hall in Contois Auditorium.
If current legislation passes, more dairy farms will go under, landlords will continue to raise rents, energy, health care and transportation costs will rise,. We will see more lawsuits against the State of Vermont and a doubled salary increase for the legislators.
The Morrisville man police say fired a shotgun at a police officer Thursday was arrested on a Hyde Park road without incident Sunday night.
A man alleged to have vandalized scores of cars and assaulted police officers was charged with punching a female Shelburne rescue worker at a homeless shelter.
In my mind there was no possible way that emission reductions in Vermont would affect the world climate. They would, however, have a very noticeable effect on all of our pocketbooks.
Supporters reject amendment capping price impact at 20¢ per gallon for heating fuel.
The handling of the pandemic has resulted in a sorely divided population.
S.5 just a study bill? T’aint so, Phil Scott says. Is too, Jill Krowinski insists. Read both arguments here.
S.37 passed overwhelmingly in the Vermont House.
“Republicans didn’t earn a red wave nationally in 2022. I don’t blame Democrats. I blame Republicans for why there was no Red Wave nationally.”
There is a high likelihood that whatever the PUC creates and brings back to the legislature, they will likely say is too well calibrated and complicated to adjust for whatever the legislature doesn’t like.
We must address the regulatory barriers that exist on the local and state level, including reducing the barriers to environmentally thoughtful development that have been caused by Act 250.
S.147 would “prohibit smoking cigarettes or using electronic cigarettes within 25 feet of any place of public access or of a multiunit dwelling.”
A Morristown police officer responding to a kidnapping and domestic disturbance received minor injuries in a shootout Thursday night. The suspect is still on the loose.
3 St. Louis residents indicted on charges of spreading ‘disinformation,’ promoting pro-Russian ‘propaganda,’ and ‘sowing discord’ through the African People’s Socialist Party.
As the Vermont Legislature seeks to build more instate renewable power, two huge transmission projects are seeking approval to deliver more carbon-free hydro power to New England.
DOC: 7 prison deaths so far this year; Vt. cannabis advocates seek to loosen consumption rules; State considers selling Caledonia airport to Beta Technologies
If you’re a wildlife enthusiast itching for spring then be sure to check out the Herricks Cove Wildlife Festival on Sunday, May 7, on the Connecticut River in Rockingham, Vermont.
Instead of heeding numerous warnings with the threat of being towed, students decided to do what they do best: dismantle barriers.
The bill will exacerbate climate change, impair human health, and add to the biodiversity crisis.
In Vermont, the ‘peculiar institution’ of abortion is enjoying a good week in the Legislature.
Calling a bill that would add $630 to individual Vermonters’ heating bills the “Affordable Heating Act” is disingenuous.
S.37, which goes to the House floor today, would allow an abortion-inducing drug mifeprestone but would prohibit prescribing an abortion reversal drug.
Witness says man who died at Springfield prison pleaded for help, was threatened by corrections officer; Burlington’s cannabis marketplace is quickly becoming crowded
Firearms purchase waiting periods don’t reduce suicides, but they do put people in danger and threaten to end gun shows
H.66 includes up to 12 weeks of paid safe leave for sexual and domestic violence survivors.
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