Constitutional amendments don’t need to be vague. Just look at Michigan’s.
Unlike Vermont, Michigan Reproductive Liberty amendment says what it means
Revisiting The Twilight Zone
A WWII paratrooper changed how America experienced television.
Candidates, vets to gather Saturday to highlight veteran suicide problem
Candidates, veterans and family members plan to meet tomorrow at the Vermont State House to focus on the problem of veteran suicide.
Water Cooler: Another fatal shooting in Bennington / Another try at demolishing cathedral
As judged by the frequency of shootings, Bennington is the Burlington of the South.
Rowell: So tired of the one-sided news coverage
Thank God for Vermont Daily Chronicle and True North Reports and [WVMT’s] The Morning Drive. The rest of our press is biased, and operates as the left arm of the Democrat/Progressive party.
Jews ‘experience a sense of risk,’ UVM prez says
“Antisemitism, in any form, will not be tolerated at UVM,” Pres. Suresh Garimella told the UVM Board of Trustees today.
Now a U.S. citizen, Chittenden senate candidate living the American Dream
“The whole Critical Race Theory. My children are taught to hate their mother. That is very concerning to me,” Rohan St. Marthe says.
Woman gives drug dealers guns and home base in return for fentanyl, police say
Drug dealers need guns and a safe place to crash and sell drugs from. They get both from Vermont drug addicts.
Hypocrisy Is on the Ballot in Vermont
In the practice of slavery the human dignity, economic opportunity, and personal liberty of the powerful was counted as more important than the human dignity of the vulnerable.
Titus: Red wave should be tsunami – three reasons it might not be
If the red wave doesn’t reach Vermont, Republicans wondering why should look in the mirror.
Prescription Take Back Day Saturday
Vermonters will get a chance this Saturday, October 29, to dispose of unused, unwanted and expired medications easily and safely at 55 locations throughout the state.
Water Cooler: court to rule on non-citizen voting
Will non-citizens be allowed to vote in local elections in Vermont? The State Supreme Court is hearing both sides.
Big wind developer Blittersdorf gives $1000 to Dem House candidate Sims
A big wind power developer has given $1000 in campaign contributions to the Democrat running in a tight House race against Republican Vicki Strong.
When wind turbines caused sleep deprivation, key lawmakers sided with Big Wind
Powerful lawmakers’ indifference to human suffering was obvious when they backed Big Wind over Vermonters harmed by wind turbine sleep deprivation.
Kauffman: Article 22 strips power from Legislature, gives it unelected hospitals, judges
To suggest, as Drs. Till and MacAfee do, that something that constitutionally protected late-term abortions will “never happen” is naïve at best and dangerously misleading at worst.
Teen who killed Mubarak in July also fired shots into his home in February, police say
As of this summer, half of Burlington’s gunfire incidents were ascribed to young men in the New American community. City officials have awarded a $20,000 grant to a community group to address the causes of the violence.
McClaughry: Climate censorship
It’s a bad sign when one side of a political debate demands to cut off the microphones of the people on the other, the WSJ writes, and John McClaughry agrees.
Oil Companies profit because we shut off Russian competition
Time for the oil companies and the President to get off the dime. More US oil needs to flow immediately.
Towns get wastewater $$
$30 million in federal money has been doled out to improve municipal wastewater systems.
Truck #4 stuck in Notch
On a sunny afternoon during foliage season, a tractor trailer blocked traffic through one of Vermont’s premiere tourist destinations.
Danby double murder suspect extradited
Louise, 79, was arrested earlier this month at his home near Syracuse on two counts of second-degree murder arising from the killing of his in-laws, George and Catherine Peacock, at their Danby residence 33 years ago.
Werewolf Lit Class
“Oh, the terrible disgrace, the ignominy of it, possessing a mythical monster in one’s own family in this age of science and enlightenment.” – Guy Endore, “The Werewolf of Paris”
Hell begins construction on border wall
Building a wall in Hell to keep out the expected influx because, climate change.
Dennis Prager on Bernie Sanders: “He’s a gigantic fool”
Intelligent people like Bernie Sanders can still be fools, Dennis Prager says.
Water Cooler: Man dead after mobile home fire
News headlines from around the state.
Green: Paradox Lost on Article 22 voters?
One ballot question asks Vermonters to ban slavery. The other asks Vermonters to okay killing a living being.
Gassett: ‘Election Month’ replacing ‘Election Day’
Windham County House candidate Nancy Gassett details problems with the universal mailed ballot election system.
Subsidized fortunes, sketchy details plague Vermont plan for 90% renewable power
For more than a decade, Vermont renewable power policies have been promulgated by a revolving door of lobbyists becoming renewable entrepreneurs, lobbyists becoming politicians, and politicians voting to satisfy their ideological inclinations.
Gervais: ‘Housing-first’ no solution for homelessness
Addressing symptoms without addressing the root cause of homelessness does not solve the problem.
Church leader runs for House of Representatives
A strong opponent of Article 22 is running for a Vermont House seat representing part of Burlington.
State publishes list of good-paying jobs
Teachers, carpenters, nurses and clerks will be in demand during the next decade.
Drug sales, gun charges dropped against St. J. store owner
Charges of selling drugs to minors, based on complaints made by nearby residents of the St. Johnsbury store, were dropped for lack of probable cause.
CLG: Bank links transactions with carbon footprint
A friendly note from your bank: you’ve exceeded your carbon allowance.
‘Real Anthony Fauci’ documentaries describes troubling corruption before, during pandemic
Robert Kennedy Jr.’s book and two film documentaries about Anthony Fauci’s role in the Covid-19 pandemic provide behind-the-scenes information going back to his uncle JFK’s presidency.
Video games not all bad for kids, new study says
Video games actually improve some skills, a new study finds. Who knew?
Watercooler: Tesla dealership coming to VT
Those snazzy, expensive Tesla roadsters will on display at a Vermont dealership soon.
Scientist: 35,000 vax deaths, 5,000 miscarriages/stillbirths reported on VAERS
Horrifying VAERS data show 35,000 deaths and 5,000 miscarriages so far from Covid-19 vaccine reactions, a veteran medical biochemist told a large audience in South Burlington today.
Director of Global Warming Solutions Act calls transportation recommendations ‘unviable’
The programs necessary to meet transportation carbon emissions goals are unviable and impossible, a State of Vermont climate change official says.
Gray: Legislature saves country estates for the elites
Who wouldn’t want to move to Vermont and enjoy living in downtown – isn’t that why you’d move here?
McLinden: Article 22 from Republican side of the aisle
Don’t believe what the salesman is telling you when you’re signing the document, believe what the document says. Caveat Emptor, Article 22 voters.
Watercooler: firewood supply challenges
Firewood dealers can’t keep up with demand for firewood, VTDigger reports. WCAX looks at New American crime problem and how gun shops cope with federal background checks.
Racing 109 MPH – cops catch just one of three
Three cars were racing on I-89 in South Burlington shortly before midnight Friday night. The cops caught one of them.
Mark MacDonald coming home on Election Day
Incumbent Orange County Sen. Mark MacDonald plans to return home on November 8 following the stroke he suffered October 9.
K-8 school sexuality-gender group sends support to Randolph / Heroin user busted for catalytic converter theft
The parent newsletter for a Shelburne K-8 school announces its Sexuality and Gender Alliance students are sending notes of support to Randolph Union High School.
Faced with mental health crisis, school offers online therapists to students ages 13 and up
Vermont students have been experiencing more mental health issues since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despathy: Never experiment on children
It’s inexplicable. Why would the CDC advisory committee endorse an experimental not-really-a-vaccine for a disease with minimal symptoms on children?
Brodowski: informing parents about gender ideology
The greatest medical scandal of our time is dismissed as a conservative preoccupation, Abigail Shrier says.
Brink: Vermont gun culture critics can be bullies, too
There are all kinds of bullies. Some of them carry guns, some of them run goat sanctuaries.
Letters: Clean and sober House candidate says no pot shops / Gervais a vote for fiscal restraint / ‘Gender-integrated’ military scary
As Election Day nears, candidates and other citizens weigh in.
Local GOP committee opposes Article 22
A Republican city committee has taken a stand on a controversial ballot question.
Lawyer: Hospitals can’t deny late-term abortions if Article 22 passes
A constitutional amendment would trump any hospital ‘custom and practice’ regulating late-term abortion.
Higley: Lawmakers can refuse climate ban on internal combustion cars – and should
Vermont can say No Deal to California’s planned ban on the sale internal combustion engine vehicles.
NEK town equity committee get $10K grant
Vermont’s largest not-for-profit donor has given a $10,000 grant to a town equity committee in the Northeast Kingdom.
Franklin County Sheriff’s captain cited for simple assault
A Franklin County Sheriff’s captain has been cited for simple assault for “kicking in the midsection” a handcuffed, shackled prisoner in his custody.
‘I Will Take This as Retaliation’: Police chief and dad says school punishing him for speaking out against biological male in girls’ locker room
In the aftermath of the Randolph locker room incident, another complaining dad has been told he can’t coach at the school anymore.
Water Cooler: Black students suspended at higher rate in Essex
The Essex School District is suspending black and special ed students at a higher rate than other students.
Slew of wrong-way drivers prompt State Police concern
You see a car driving straight at you on the Interstate. What do you do?
No decision yet on Covid-19 vax mandate for all Vermont schoolchildren
There’s no meeting scheduled for a little-known state board tasked with advising state health officials on immunizing all Vermont school children for Covid-19.
Roper: Climate Plan’s Costs Are Real. Savings, Not So Much
Listening to the Vermont Climate Council talk about supposed cost savings from emissions reductions, I was reminded of a classic scene from Caddyshack involving Bill Murray’s character and the Dalai Lama.
Luebke: Return of the Fox – Legal, Ethical or Moral Conduct?
There is much local speculation about the convenient timing of Hoyt’s move to Middletown Springs, his brief non-campaign and dropping out at the midnight hour. Robin Chesnut-Tangerman quickly maneuvered himself into the race as the Democratic candidate for State Representative.
McClaughry: $93 billion to land first woman, POC on the moon
When NASA stands for “Not A Sensible Ambition.”
Questions about Article 22 & pedophilia, minor abortion
If a 40-year-old known pedophile begins a relationship with your vulnerable 9-year-old girl, can you, a parent, intervene?
Horrors! Conservative fear flicks open for Halloween
Conservative talk show host Steven Crowder makes his acting debut as Donald Trump turned zombie after a series of failed COVID-19 booster shots.
Old Man in Mountain gone, but say hello to ‘Gassetts Gorilla’
The Gassetts Gorilla’s pursed lips and strong brow give a sense that he is a bit of a skeptic, maybe much like ourselves.
Evslin: Amazon algorithm confirms my bias
Amazon’s algorithms know everything about you and are a little too eager to please.
New life for juvenile detention facility in Newbury
A state court sides with the State of Vermont in its effort to locate a secure juvenile detention facility in a rural Orange County town.
Watercooler: Hospital wants robot surgeon
UVMMC wants its second robotic surgical system, and a biomass plant is having trouble paying for its timber – these headlines and others from Vermont news media.
Lovely, creepy statue on Hubbard grave in Montpelier cemetery has ghost story – video tells the tale
Inspired by an Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture, Black Aggie adorns the grave of highly disliked Montpelier benefactor John Hubbard.
Accused Johnson shooter pleads innocent to firearms, fentanyl dealing charges
Goins took a handgun from his pocket, shot the victim in the neck, and fled, court documents say.
Latest death on Franklin County highway not a traffic accident
A 40-year-old man died Wednesday after pulling his vehicle over to the side of Rte. 105 in Sheldon.
Essex JP asks Secretary of State about Dominion voting machine hacking vulnerability
A Justice of the Peace and IT professional is waiting for answers from the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office about the security of the new Dominion voting tabulators.
Watercooler: EB-5 background dogging state treasurer candidate
His investigation of the EB-5 scandal is dogging rising political star Mike Pieciak.
Klar: Father of Randolph volleyball whistleblower fired as soccer coach
The father of a Randolph Union High School girl who complained about having a biological male watch her undress refused to recant his social media statements supporting her. So the school system fired him.
Rabies on the rise in Chittenden County
Since July, 10 animals have tested positive for rabies in Chittenden County.
Power blackouts could strike this winter
Thanks to global fuel scarcity and the decision to NOT build more pipelines from the Marcellus fracking fields to New England, Vermont will be more blackout-prone this winter than ever.
Many companies promising free travel for abortions do business in Vermont
Big corporations will fly employees seeking abortions to Vermont, to be paid for by taxpayers – that’s the plan laid out by big name brand companies and some Vermont politicians.
CLG: 1 billion crabs disappear! Alaskan harvest cancelled
CLG collects the national and international news you rarely reported by the MSM.
Busted for forging big checks
A Burlington man forged checks totaling more than $10,000. He also had a counterfeit $100 bill, police say.
VT GOP works to reduce costly, confusing, fraud-tempting Excess Ballots
Ballots are not being mailed to people – they are being mailed to addresses. The people may or may not be there. If you get an excess ballot, report it.
If winter blackouts hit, blame Democrats
‘America last’ energy policies pushed by the Democratic Party are leading New England to the brink off blackouts.
Pro-choice but opposed to late-term abortions? Vote no on Article 22
If Article 22 passes, Vermont doctors and nurses may be compelled to do procedures that violate their consciences.
Water Cooler: ‘Flash’ star too slow for surveillance cameras, pleads innocent to liquor theft
Ezra Miller, who plays “The Flash” in the DC Comics Justice League film franchise, pleaded not guilty to stealing liquor from a neighbor of his southern Vermont home, WCAX reports.
Leicester mom, dog-sledder challenges incumbent for House seat
A woman who makes her home on Lake Dunmore has challenged the Democrat incumbent for a six-town Addison County House seat.
Man wanted for luring a child arrested
An anonymous tip led to the arrest Monday of a man wanted for sexual exploitation and luring of a child.
School bus hits pickup truck at intersection
An afternoon school bus collided Monday with a pickup truck at Mountain Top Road in Chittenden.
Balint a No on vax mandate protection
Supporters of freedom from government vax mandates, take note.
Who is Outright Vermont, and what are they doing in Vermont schools
If – as may be the case – Outright Vermont now has enough influence to tell submissive Vermont news organizations what they may or may not report, it is in the public interest to know more about this not-for-profit organization.
High school athletic director dies by suicide
Jared Cushing “seemed to always have a big smile and a bounce to his walk. But clearly inside he was struggling,” the Hazen Union school principal said.
Evslin: Global population will DROP – what it means
Big news – both good and bad – about the coming decrease in global population. Bottom line? Don’t worry, be happy, we’ll adjust.
National radio show host Fredericks coming to Vermont
The MAGA bus tour of a national radio show host will visit Rutland and Essex Junction Sunday.
McClaughry: Working out of the housing crisis
The particulars may change. But always, always, there’s something more important than actually building affordable housing.
Trans advocates make news coverage demands
Let this be a lesson to you all, a trans advocacy group warns.
Church event at Bradford school prompts backlash
The school reconsidered its permission for a facility request for about 30 people after thousands of flyers went out publicizing a free prophecy seminar.
Bioethicist: if hospital changes late-term abortion policy, Article 22 would prevent restrictions
A veteran Vermont bioethicist warns that if Article 22 passes, no law or regulation can stop unlimited late term abortions or minors making life-altering medical decisions without parental permission.
Gunfire, car chase in Essex Friday
For hardly the first time this year, a Vermont neighborhood experienced a car chase with gunfire.
Water Cooler: Former Senate candidate sees biased media coverage of Dem primary for Congress
It’s not just conservatives who see media bias in VT Digger and Seven Days.
Gun-toting fentanyl dealers from Springfield, MA arrested in Rutland
An extremely well-armed duo from the northeastern drug hub of Springfield, Massachusetts were arrested last week in Rutland.
Keelan: Well-meant report on Vermont racism goes sideways
Vermont neighborhoods are still racially segregated? Where?
Farmer loses government contract for speaking out against transgender ed in public schools
“There are consequences to voicing views and supporting policies that harm the most vulnerable and historically oppressed in our society – transgender, queer, people of color, indigenous people, and undocumented foreign workers,” Fireovid was advised.
Abortion clinic sidewalk vigil organizer invokes Silent Cal
It takes persistence to maintain a vigil outside of an abortion clinic. The Barre 40 Days for Life organizer offers the encouraging words of President Calvin Coolidge.
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