Vermont Daily Chronicle

When this year’s significant housing bill, S.100, arrived at the House’s Committee on Housing, many of the members were looking forward to conducting thoughtful legislation to collaborate and make it possible to increase the housing stock in our state.

Columnist George Will will speak at the Ethan Allen Institute dinner May 31. What would his speech sound like if written by ChatGPT? Could you tell the difference?

H.230 specifically targets the LGBTQ+ community for gun control, in the name of suicide prevention.

According to the Tax Foundation, in 2022 Vermont already had the 4th highest state and local tax burden in the country at 13.6 percent. But, oh, wait till next year!  

I have grave concerns that Vermonters cannot sustain the nearly one-half billion dollar increase in spending over the next two years.

Who do you know who is slated to get a raise of 23% plus?  Answer: Your local legislator! And what’s more, that’s only part of the story—it gets worse!

The current supermajority rules and it is all about programs and committees, out-of-state agendas, and a huge growing bureaucracy. Who really stands to benefit? The very few elites.

The term convention of states (COS) can be confusing to the average citizen given its vague federal and constitutional implications. What are the risks if any? 

Doubtless this new religion will eventually be challenged by American secular jurisprudence. The outcome of that court battle will determine whether America remains a land of the Constitutionally free.

H89 and S37, the so-called shield bills, do not extend equal personal reproductive protection as required under Article 22.  

Could the real existential threat to Vermont maple syrup be very actions taken to prevent climate change?

Government should allow and encourage (not require, not subsidize) more building of less expensive housing including rental units.

Banning sales of certain classes of firearms because they can be used in mass shootings – the so-called “assault weapons” ban – was tried for ten years with approximately zero positive results.

The problem is that independent pharmacies are getting paid less than what it costs to fill the prescription for the patient.

I became a self-avowed atheist.  Not just a happy-go-lucky atheist.  A radical atheist – one that reveled in the oratorical brilliance of Hitchens as he verbally dismantled cohorts of Christian apologists.

The enviros are sometimes willing to allow more more housing in urban areas – but never, ever out in the countryside.

Conceived in Liberty and born to immigrant parents in 1776, America died today after a brief illness. For many, it is hard to believe that she is gone.