The vanishing Vermont single-family home
S.100 is about ‘infill’ — adding housing to already-developed neighborhoods, especially urban cores. What it’s not about is incentivizing traditional, single-family housing developments in rural areas.
Klar: If China invades America, will leftists rejoice?
With a few more years of Marxist social justice such as Biden’s executive order edicts on race, climate, electronic currency, and transhumanism, the Chinese will have no need to launch an attack. They will simply annex America and Taiwan as allied territories, and drop Hunter another check.
Report: New Hampshire tops in the nation in good roads
New Hampshire not only has the best roads and the smallest cost per mile for construction, but the Granite State is also tops in New England for quality of roads, as well. New Hampshire spends just $9.82 per mile for highway construction, while Vermont spends $10.64, and Maine $10.84.
Department of Energy’s COVID lab leak bombshell exposes bankruptcy of ‘experts’ and the media
In 2020, if you thought it was possible COVID-19 came from a lab in China you were labeled a conspiracy theorist, a peddler of misinformation, “bonkers,” and a racist. The Department of Energy just came out as a racist purveyor of misinformation this week.
Outsider independent running against Bernie staffer for Winooski school board
Two Winooskians are vying for a two-year seat, though: Housing Commission chair and former board member Robert Millar and Jordan Matte, who ran unsuccessfully for a Vermont House seat in 2022.
House bill looks to improve accessibility on new trails in Vermont
The bill, H.85, would make 10% of each newly constructed trail on state lands accessible to individuals with physical disabilities. The same would apply to trails built using state funds.
Scott: More work needs to be done on Senate Bill 5
“The way in which the Clean Heat Standard is implemented including the way in which clean heat credits are priced and how incentives or subsidies are offered to households and businesses must be established before meaningful analysis is possible,” Gov. Phil Scott said.
Governor, natural resources secretary warn about Affordable Heat Act
“There is no economic study, no fiscal analysis of the Clean Heat Program, and S.5 currently contains no cost containment provisions. … I am concerned the Senate design will end in disaster,” Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore said.
Roper: Just kill the ‘UnAffordable’ Heat Act
The people have spoken. They don’t want a carbon tax on home heating fuel. And we don’t need to spend $1.75 million to find out that this whole scheme is unrealistic and unaffordable. It’s not. So, dear public servants, just kill the bill.
Bech: Substantiation for Vermont’s Child Protection Registry lacks due process
Never did I think that we would come to a point where our government would include one out of every 26 people on their Child Protection Registry list without ever going to court. If you are on this list, employers can reject you for any job involving children, and current employers can terminate you.
Mermel: Upfront cost of Affordable Heat Act likely over $5 billion
The Affordable Heat Act will increase income inequality and punish low and moderate income people, particularly our BIPOC population. It is an immoral, regressive surcharge on the most vulnerable among us.
Roper: Senators don’t care what their constituents think about the ‘UnAffordable’ Heat Act
Sen. Ruth Hardy’s attitude is, I’m not wrong. You are wrong. And I’m not going to pay attention to you — despite that being my job to represent your interests in state government. This is what democracy in Vermont looks like today.