Windsor Selectboard member says she will use her position to push Black Lives Matter agenda
At least one Selectboard member in town has stated that she will use her seat to push the Black Lives Matter agenda.
‘Y’all don’t even know the history’: Sign-carrying black man rips protesters who want to take down Lincoln statue
A black man carrying a sign for a black history tour sharply criticized protesters who had threatened to tear down a statue of Abraham Lincoln freeing a slave in Washington, D.C. Friday night.
Vermont Agency of Transportation won’t remove most murals, graffiti seen from highway
The Vermont Agency of Transportation on June 19 instructed employees to not remove murals, signs or graffiti in the highway right-of-way unless profane, grotesque or dangerous to traffic, according to two agency memos.
Bucknam: Sliding toward totalitarianism
Do you think America could never devolve into Jacobin France or the horrors of Nazism or the Cultural Revolution? Think again. Liberal intellectuals in France, Germany and China never thought such terror would reach their country — until it happened.
Sword taken from Stark statue at Bennington monument
The sword in the statue of General John Stark is missing. Administrators at the monument site don’t know for sure who took it, or why.
Video: Facebook moderators admit censoring Republicans, ‘exception’ given to Don Lemon for hate speech
Facebook content moderators discussed using their positions to censor Republicans and conservatives in an undercover video released by activist group Project Veritas on Tuesday.
Two police departments take different paths on calls to defund
In the wake of George Floyd’s death by the knee of a Minneapolis police officer one month ago, activists across the nation are urging police departments to defund or even disarm. Two police departments in Vermont have responded differently to such demands.
Flemming: Legislature prioritizes economy over slavery reparations, so far
On June 11, the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance held a webinar to discuss a bill “establish(ing) a task force to study and consider a State apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery.”
Mount Ascutney School Board gets cautious, says ‘unwise to rush into any decision’ on Riley
The Mount Ascutney School Board seems to be moving slowly on deciding how — or even whether — to further discipline Windsor School Principal Tiffany Riley for expressing some skepticism about Black Lives Matter.
Juneteenth resolution in Vermont calls Trump tweets ‘racist’
A proposed Vermont House resolution honoring “Juneteenth” also describes recent tweets by President Trump are “racist.” The House is likely to vote on the resolution tomorrow, June 19, the 155th anniversary of the day slavery was officially abolished in Texas.
Lawyer says school board’s firing of Vermont principal a ‘clear violation of the First Amendment’
Members of the Mount Ascutney School District Board say they plan to fire Windsor School Principal Tiffany Riley for comments she made about certain tactics of Black Lives Matter, but a St. Johnsbury attorney says doing so would violate the law.
Controversy grows over Vermont principal’s Black Lives Matter comments
Windsor residents and House candidates have strong and differing views about the school board’s punishment of a local school principal for Facebook statements questioning Black Lives Matters. And now the controversy has gone national.