McClaughry: Facebook under attack
My wife and I raised two teenage daughters. If they had complained that living on Facebook lowered their self-esteem and suggested suicide, I would have said: “So, get the hell off of Facebook.”
Flemming: Climate activists one-up each other in recommendations to climate council
The event averaged around 100 online participants, presumably from all different parts of Vermont. Of those who spoke, the spectrum of alarm ranged from “we’re all going to die” to “if we spend lots of money, and drastically change how we live, we might be able to survive.”
Roper: GWSA a political suicide mission for Vermont legislators
Members of the Vermont Climate Council are fully aware that they are setting up the elected legislators who ultimately support their recommendations for a political suicide mission.
Tom Evslin: Worldwide and local current Starlink performance
The blue dot circled is our dish in the center of Vermont. Volunteers run software which collects statistics every 15 minutes and uploads them to update the tables and the map.
McClaughry: A capitalist success story
Here’s a tale of two savvy young men from Vermont who hit the jackpot by selling their startup company to a larger one for $40 million. The two now rich men were Board President and Clean Energy Program Director at the Vermont Public Interest Research Group.
Deb Billado: Midnight in Middlebury
Middlebury College removed the name of Vermont Gov. John Mead from the chapel that has embraced his name for over a century. Mead’s name was removed in the dead of night under the cover of darkness with no forewarning. This is particularly ironic given Middlebury’s own troubled history with eugenics.
John Klar: Trusting Uncle Sam
Yes, those who wish to trust government, and pharmaceutical companies, and science, possess the freedom to do so. What they do not possess is the right — let alone the power — to compel others to embrace their cognitive dissonance.
John Klar: Critical race theory and anti-Semitism
The recent conflict over an anti-Israel resolution in Burlington highlights the inherent toxicity of “social justice” ideology. More, it exposes the dangerous anti-Semitism of critical race theory already implemented in Vermont schools.
Flemming: Guilt for underfunded pensions lies with Legislature, not taxpayers
Only through making painful cuts to spending can the Legislature ‘admit guilt’ to taxpayers in their willful neglect of fiscal responsibility. Let’s not let them shift the blame for underfunded pension to taxpayers.
Meg Hansen: Why must the infected get injected?
Public health leaders begat this new disregard for disease-acquired immunity because rational reasoning is not politically expedient in a pandemic. The NIAID Director Anthony Fauci therefore dismisses natural immunity to COVID-19 as weak and short-lived.
Mark Whitworth: Biodiversity and Vermont’s Climate Action Plan
We are witnessing a stunning global loss of biodiversity that some are calling the Sixth Great Extinction. Human activity has degraded migration corridors, leaving species with nowhere to go. It is a painful irony that Vermont has encouraged some of this essential habitat to be fragmented and whittled away under the pretext of climate action.
Letter: Overthinking Gov. Phil Scott
My advice for liberty-minded Vermonters is to stop worrying about the governor’s office until you have a majority in the Legislature. You might actually like the Phil Scott that shows up in that scenario.