As the son of a Jewish mother, have you forgotten how the Nazis contrived to create an impression of public danger to “solve” their self made “crisis”, then confiscated the only functional protection available to and depended upon by German citizens: their firearms.?
Last year’s constitutional amendment: ban slavery. This year: ban hard labor for convicts.
A hardworking, conscientious school bus driver was a little late arriving at the State House for his ‘day job’ as a legislator.
I was suicidal, self-harming, and hated myself. The appointment with my gender therapist was only 15 minutes long. When I walked in, my “letter of recommendation” was already typed up on her computer, and she was filling in my name in minutes.”
The VPA’s rejection of Mid-Vermont Christian was reprehensible and also predictable, given VPA’s despisal of the “traditional” (i.e. biblical) definition of gender. There are two, in case you’re wondering.
Both the Chinese lab and the NIH may have double-billed the U.S. government for their ‘services’ in pathogen research.
WCAX reports that a Connecticut woman will be allowed to participate in Vermont’s ‘aid in dying’ law.
Did anyone in the VPA think to include the students of Mid-Vermont Christian School in the discussions around all this? Call me a skeptic but I very much doubt it.
“It’s not taxpayer money, and it’s not a bailout,” Balint said on today’s Morning Drive program on WVMT.
Just a stone’s throw from Vermont, Canadian doctors’ rules for euthanasia are becoming more and more lax.
Working a similar diversity job in Minneapolis, former Burlington DEI director Tyeastia Green reportedly made false statements about fundraising for the city’s Black expo.
“Cancelling our membership is not a solution and does nothing to deal with the very real issue of safety and fairness facing women’s sports in our beloved state,” Head of School Vicky Fogg said.
Banning MVCS is the exact opposite of inclusion.
At least Sen. Mark MacDonald, who can always be counted on to commit candor, ‘we’re in the business of forcing people” to use less fuels. So enough with Sen. Bray’s ‘asking’ baloney.
Recognizing the impossibility of passing gun control legislation, President Joe Biden is taking executive action instead – and will outline just what he plans in a speech today.
We hunt, fish, and trap, because that is a natural extension of living outside the four walls that define our house. We are one with our wilderness surroundings.
Plucky David Mid-Vermont Christian School gave it their all in Saturday’s exciting state championship match – perhaps the last such experience for the faith-based school.
An ordinance that would make evictions tougher for landlords was rejected by Town Meeting voters of one of Vermont’s most ‘progressive’ towns.
Fish and Wildlife wants to hear from Vermonters about moose and deer herd management.
Is Vermont as we have loved it… disappearing?
I have had a clinical nutrition practice in St. Johnsbury for over two decades and I have worked with 68 people struggling with vaccine injury. The majority of their primary care providers were not familiar with the Health and Human Services’ Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
Like baby sea turtles that must run a gauntlet of predators before escaping into the sea, hundreds of bills in the Vermont General Assembly face legislative ‘death’ this week – at least for this year.
A 21-year-old South Burlington man may be facing murder charges following the death this weekend of the 55-year-old cellmate he allegedly beat in December.
Vermont telling boys they can compete against girls in sports where the performance advantages are unavoidable creates psychological harm for everyone, parents included.
The Vermont taxpayer is paying top dollar to house the homeless in hotels around the state.
It is believed that other pro-abortion states, including Connecticut, New Jersey, and Oregon will introduce bills to protect kangaroos from being harvested to make soccer cleats.
Montpelier High School boys basketball team cruised to another D2 championship this weekend – and the future looks bright for more to come.
“If there is a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank, it must be 100 percent financed by Wall Street and large financial institutions,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said.
SVB is different. It was a major tech lender. And tech has been among the major funders of the far left.
A Windsor credit union manager finagled the credit card software to steal $137,000, court records say.
Fresh from a one-point, come-from-behind victory over taller Long Trail, Mid-Vermont Christian School will face a bi-state high school in the state championship game Saturday night.
New name, same train-wreck outcome for the House version of S.5.
A gathering inspired by a revival sweeping the country and the ‘coincidentally’ timed release of a popular Christian film will meet at a South Burlington church Sunday evening.
Violent assaults by teenagers are renewing questions about ‘youthful offender’ status that keeps some violent crimes out of the public eye – although not a recent assault of his infant child by an 18-year-old Bennington man.
Vermont needs more housing…… for ‘climate immigrants’? Uh, Vermonters first, a Grand Isle County farmer advises Chittenden Sen. Kesha Ram, wife of one of Vermont’s biggest landlords.
One of Lamoille County’s Finest now has more protection on the job.
A virologist and former head of the CDC said gain-of-function research isn’t worth the risk, and thinks it has already caused the world’s greatest pandemic.
We have some issues to overcome before we can convert: will our tradespeople be available; will the supply chain meet our deadline; and most critically, where will we obtain $247,000?
Five years from alleged murder of truck delivery driver to proposed trial date.
Natural reproduction of Lake Trout has been so strong that authorities are cutting back on restocking.
These products pose increased health risks for women because they are used in close proximity to skin tissue that can more readily absorb chemicals.
Want to meet Vermont’s new congressperson? Oh, you just missed it! She was the guest of honor at a Washington DC ‘meet and greet’ today at noon.
A teenager charged with assaulting his one-year-old child will be tried as an adult.
When the Vermont Supreme Court ruled in January against the National/Vermont Republican Party non-citizen voting suit, it left a door open. Now the state and national parties are walking through it with a second lawsuit in hand.
The names of first-time volunteers like Paul Bean are mingled with those of old hands like Don Turner in the latest list of appointments to state boards and commissions.
In Chittenden County, home to lawmakers including Speaker of the House, Jill Krowinski and Senate President Philip Baruth, the McNeil plant is not just a powerful constituent, but also a critical component in supplying electricity to residents and businesses.
When it comes to global warming, child obesity, and human trafficking, Ben & Jerry’s looks like a predatory perp.
Like knots of wood that have somehow escaped the chipper, a few brave souls are breaking step with the Democratic regime.
If Vermont doesn’t like the services provided by an insurance company with 213 years of experience, we could always bring the program in house, hire state employees, and acquire an IT network.
A Vermont House resolution re-homing bears and de-homing people establishes an ursine right of eminent domain – they were here long before we were.
What’s been overlooked is the real majority: more than half the Legislature serves towns with less than 1,000 people – small, underserved communities who desperately need our help.
A dedicated Second Amendment advocate will be remembered Saturday night in Barre by the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs.
Two longtime elected Rutland City officials were shown the door by voters yesterday.
Chittenden County communities said yes to just about everything on the Town Meeting ballot (except community police oversight in Burlington).
Almost 2/3 of Burlington voters rejected a plan for a community control board over the Burlington Police Department.
A Watertown MA man was cited for negligent driving after traveling 125 MPH on I-89 March 7, state police say.
Before a change last week, the benefit for the paid family and medical leave bill would have exceeded the worker’s paycheck.
Would proposed Vermont minimum wage bills price some low-income workers out of the market?
The northern border’s Swanton Sector saw an 845% surge in migrant apprehensions and a 900% increase in illegal migrants evading arrest in January alone.
Heat pump reality – cold and expensive – set in for a Richford couple….Zelensky kicking back 10% to the big guy?…More pro-life consistency sought from VT rep to GOP national committee.
Okay, you S.37 proponents, just come out and say it! Tell us what motivates you.
Reluctant tour guide Rep. Charles Wilson points out the landmarks on the the Vermont Legislature’s well-intentioned Road to Taxpayer Hell.
The Party of Equity decided it’s not an issue when it comes to deceptive contraceptive practices, Republicans charged Friday.
To be clear: there are now ZERO security measures in place that would allow an election official to independently verify that a vote-by-mail ballot was filled out by the person to whom the votes are being attributed.
Vermonters will go to Town Meeting today (some went last night) to decide – by ballot or from the floor – on important municipal issues.
The clock rolled down to five minutes left in the game…when it happened…
“We crafted a complete hard stop for the plan being developed under the affordable heat act,” Sen. Chris Bray tells a constituent.
Stole a Lexus. Stole a pickup truck. Led cops on eight mile chase, police say. An Alabama man was lodged with $200 bail and will face a judge Wednesday.
Is anyone helping the Rohingya, surely the least fortunate people group on earth?
A bill co-sponsored by a powerful House chair would completely retool the Vermont economy – as advised by People’s Assemblies.
The chair of the Cannabis ‘Control’ Board is taking the marijuana industry’s side on raising the THC potency cap. A medical advocate said, “We know that we are speaking against an industry, and this is a billion-dollar industry, and similar to big tobacco they’re huge and it’s very difficult for lawmakers to vote against them. It’s very difficult for people to not want that revenue.”
Child care funding was supposed to be a top priority for the 2023 Legislature. Now a key Senate committee is in the dark about what it all will cost.
A career IBMer and outdoor enthusiast has been named to the Fish & Wildlife Board.
To lawmakers supporting S.5, people of limited resources are collateral damage.
The bill would create People’s Assemblies to write a Regenerative Economy Roadmap that would make Vermont a 90% Regenerative Economy by 2046.
Vermont’s news media are rattled and upset. They lost control of the narrative on S.5, the Affordable Heating Act.
In the medieval era, the establishment forgave the rich their sins – for a fee. Now it sells them carbon credits.
A Russian-born software and electrical engineer has been arrested for causing an explosion at a power grid transformer site.
A convicted sex offender, who has spent 30 years in mental institutions because he mailed death threats to Vermont news reporters and a state prosecutor, has been quietly released from federal custody to live in Winooski, court records show
A landmark Vermont inn, famed as a conference center and four-season travel destination, is fighting back against a lawsuit charging discrimination against LGBTQ and women employees.
On March 9, 1791, Vermont was admitted as the 14th State of the Union – the first after the original 13 colonies.
Off-an-on heavy snows since Wednesday last week, and at least one erratic driver, led to several reported accidents.
“Your tax dollars fund this group. You tell me if we got our money’s worth.”
“We do not support S.66. It would significantly alter the independent school landscape in Vermont,” Agency of Education Secretary Dan French said.
There is cause for concern about the study period. It establishes the first part of the expanding bureaucracy necessary to implement and supervise the program.
A strong supporter of Vermont’s renewable power industry has introduced a bill to require utilities to buy less and less power from Hydro-Quebec every year.
“I had no idea the General was so upset. He seemed like such a happy guy on the outside,” commented long time friend and former cereal killer Count Chocula.
ChatGPT makes up a lot of stuff.
After City Meeting elections next week, the Onion City will have Vermont’s first-ever all LGBTQ+ city council.
The sounds of fighting were followed by a loud ‘bang’ in a Malletts Bay apartment. Police found a dead man and a dead woman.
Masks requested but not required at Hate Free Forum in St. Albans.
You hear a gunshot. Outside your house you see a half dozen men in camo and toting guns. Within 24 hours are are charged with murder.
Judges are letting scofflaws treat court appointments like dinner reservations or hair appointments, says the Grand Isle County prosecutor.
Back then, the Birkenhaus was my second home, and Ann and Emo my second parents. In one of the more insane decisions ever, my first parents drove from New Jersey to Stratton almost every weekend in winter.
What’s cheaper: paying for someone else’s solar power subsidies, or planting trees? Either way the carbon footprint shrinks.
Faced with a housing shortage and skyrocketing housing costs, the Vermont Legislature wants more urban duplexes and quadplexes. And fewer garages.
A Vermont education newsletter reports on a bi-racial Bennington County teacher who sued and won for wrongful termination.
If enacted as introduced, AHA will be the largest and most expensive social program ever paid for by Vermonters.
Sometimes, they get it right.
The Vermont media has discovered the story of David Mid-Vermont Christian School protesting against playing a basketball team with a 6’4″ transgender player. And in two communities, Indian-sounding team names are okay, after all.
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