The area has seen an uptick in illegal immigration, with U.S. Border Patrol recently recording an 846% in apprehensions in the Swanton sector, which covers parts of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.
For Maple Flower owners Cory and Liz Krieg, last week was the first time they’d opened their sliding sugarhouse doors to participate in the weekend since starting their syrup operation four years ago. But the couple have been making syrup and selling goods for much longer than that.
The Climate Action Plan declares we must “support compact settlement patterns that contribute to the reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, enhance community and built environment resilience, and help conserve natural and working lands.” That requires channeling development into population centers where people can get around by cycling and walking, and no development anywhere else.
The Senate Education Committee is moving forward with a bill, S.138, which is an Education School Safety bill on safety measures. This bill only addresses a sixteenth of the larger problem.
The woman who gay-bashed Stonewell original Fred Sargeant at Burlington’s 2022 Pride Parade gets let off with community service and charges dismissed. Historic first gay woman rep Becca Balint’s election efforts got a $1 million ad buy boost from the disgraced FTX crypto company being investigated for theft and fraud.
House Bill 89 legalizes parental abduction and medical mutilation of children. Stranger still, most Republicans voted for it. We’re going to ask why. All of this starts in your elementary schools.
Pursuant to a law passed by the legislature last year, residential contractors working in Vermont who perform $10,000 or more worth of work inclusive of labor and materials must register with OPR.
State Auditor Doug Hoffer just released a 12-page report about how the cable broadband expansion effort is going two years and over $150 million into what is anticipated to be a $600-$800 million project. It’s about what you would expect from a massively bureaucratic, multi-layered government system.
I have to say I’m very concerned with the direction we’re heading in. And it’s not because some of my proposals have been cut. I worry about how we will possibly pay for all of this as we look towards an uncertain economic future.
The cauldron of poison bubbling in Vermont has been spilling across the Connecticut River for years. If we don’t dilute that influence, we may all be looking for another state in which we have some hope to live free before we die.
In response to Carson v. Makin, Maine lawmakers passed legislation that limited the ability for religious schools to gain an exemption from certain nondiscrimination rules while participating in the school choice tuitioning program, prompting a lawsuit on behalf of Bangor Christian School on Tuesday.
Jaz Brisack, the lead organizer of the Starbucks Workers United (SWU) at the heart of an upcoming Senate hearing, was recently the subject of a new report that found a history of anti-Israel rhetoric.