Though the true history of our region’s Abenaki is forever lost, the history of the Webb family who invested their “white privilege” wealth to create and then gift Shelburne Farms to Vermonters is well established: The Webbs were zealous abolitionists.
For at least the next year, each new electric car — or appliance or heating system — means more coal must be burned. Running cars on gasoline or diesel is far less polluting than running them on electricity generated from coal.
I have said not that “climate change” itself is a scam — climate is always changing — but the frantic campaign to combat it has become a scam. The climate doomsayers need to rethink their message.
This Supreme Court ruling is directly applicable to Vermont. Vermont’s tuition assistance program is very similar to Maine’s. Vermont will have to consider how to reconcile the Carson v. Makin opinion with the Compelled Support Clause in the Vermont Constitution.
This week on these steps the Senate Democrats took a victory lap on this past session’s legislation — but no protection for school children from violence. I’m tired of Democratic reps calling for more gun grabbing and controls. It does not work.
Water cuts for the Southwest translate to reduced crop yields for the nation. Lake Mead is a barometer of an unsustainable water bankruptcy for America’s most productive agricultural region, at a time when inflation is ravaging fertilizer, food and fuel prices like a raging flood.
It seems fitting not to celebrate the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, or went in to effect in theory, but instead celebrate the day when it went in to effect, in practice, for the very last people in the uttermost reaches of our United States.
Today, black citizens are still being thwarted in exercising their right to determine or decide the policies they will live by. When 5%, 10% or 15% of the vote in a community is made up of dead people, former residents or people ineligible to vote, blacks are disenfranchised.
The Vermont Crime Information Center compiles and reports law enforcement incidents from across the state to the Department of Justice through the FBI. The problem is that the Department of Justice has not published its analyses, summaries or reports since 2020.
Why is it that after every tragic gun-murder, those who respond loudest for guns bans are often the same people who respond the loudest against anything that might limit abortion?
If the Vermont Legislature is to represent the people of Vermont fully, one should not have to be retired, living off a trust fund, be independently wealthy, or be self-employed to serve.
In abortion discussions we talk about our children and babies as if they were some kind of commodity bought and sold on the local market. It strikes me that we have become more in touch with our self interests and out of touch with our humanity and quality of life.