Traditional social media networks are experiencing a backlash from users as they continue to “cancel” conservative views. As a result, alternative “free speech” social media providers such as MeWe and Parler are seeing a surge of new users to their platforms.
As infections increase during the “second wave” of the coronavirus, too many politicians are knee-jerking to reimpose harsh restrictions such as business shutdowns, curfews, and home confinements.
At least three-quarters of the businesses taking government employment incentive money to stay in Vermont would not have left the state regardless, a study by Vermont Auditor Doug Hoffer concludes.
The University of Vermont Medical Center continues to defend an abortion provider who forced a pro-life nurse to participate in an abortion in 2018.
November property tax payments in Shelburne are running behind last year’s — to no one’s surprise. Town officials had prepared earlier this year for a loss of some tax payments because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dybing tested positive for the virus a week later and sleepiness was her only symptom, KARE11 reported. “Didn’t even know I had it. I didn’t know I had it,” Dybing said, according to KARE11.
As 2020 winds down, roughly 23 percent of households in the U.S. are struggling with food insecurity, a number that has doubled since last year.
Formal FDA approval of the Covid-19 vaccine is “many months” away, Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine said at a press conference Tuesday.
Few contrasts could more openly demonstrate how arbitrary Vermont’s COVID rules have become than prohibiting family meal gatherings while advising strangers they can have sex freely.
In the wake of national protests calling to defund the police following the murder of George Floyd, Hinesburg will increase the town police budget, with the selectboard voting to hire another full-time police officer using town funds and a federal grant.
A walk-through Maple Landmark’s factory on Exchange Street in Middlebury is a bit like walking through Santa Claus’ legendary workshop at the North Pole. While you won’t find tufted-eared elves at work, you will find very human employees busy constructing wood products that are hallmarks of this award-winning local company.
It wasn’t long ago that Dartmouth College, an Ivy League institution nestled in Hanover, N.H., was praised for being one of the nation’s top colleges for free speech. Dartmouth no longer holds that distinction.