Drag queen story hour for children comes to Montpelier
For the second year in a row, the Kellogg-Hubbard Library hosted a drag queen story hour for the public. This time more than 100 people attended, mostly with their children of young ages.
California implements extreme new sex ed curriculum
The California Board of Education implemented progressive sex and gender education curriculum in public schools across the state, regardless, in some cases, of parental knowledge or consent.
Vermont activists call to end ‘concentration camps’ at southern border
As part of a broader Democratic Party gambit to recast immigration enforcement at the U.S. southern border as Nazi-like, the Vermont Peace and Justice Center held a “Close the Camps/Stop the Deportations” protest on Tuesday afternoon on Church Street.
Arizona drops Nike investment after Betsy Ross shoe is scrapped
Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey revealed Tuesday that the state of Arizona will withdraw all of the financial incentives provided to Nike following the company’s decision to pull an American flag-themed sneaker it deemed offensive.
Despite claims of police brutality, controversial use-of-force incidents are rare in Burlington
While a new committee is being formed to review policies in response to accusations of police brutality, statistics from the Burlington Police Department show that very few police interactions involve a use of force, and only a handful of those require a review.
Local Motion committed to making rural Vermont bike-friendly, but at what cost to taxpayers?
It seems like a well-intentioned, health-conscious plan: get more Vermonters out of their cars and onto bicycles and hoofing it. But how practical is the plan on a statewide level, and at what cost to taxpayers?
New members of Burlington Police Commission could end up on policing policy review committee
The chair of the Burlington Police Commission who will appoint two commissioners to a new committee on policing practices hasn’t ruled out any of the three African Americans put on the police commission earlier this week by city councilors.
City councilor: Burlington’s use-of-force policy ‘pretty strong’ in protecting the public
As accusations of police brutality continue to grip the city, one Progressive city councilor says existing police policy is mostly solid as is, but he still supports a review by a special committee.
Roper: A response to ‘Who’s really politicizing our kids’
It can’t be psychologically healthy to put so much pressure on young people — teaching them it’s up to you to save the world or you and everything you love will die — and to bombard them so relentlessly with doom and gloom scenarios about their futures.
John Klar: Global warming fanatics hijack Vermont tax-funded parade, government approves
At the Strolling of the Heifers Parade 2019, this bias against free speech was on full display, augmented by blatant government endorsement, using broadcast media by Vermont’s ultra-progressive lieutenant governor.
Neil Johnson: On framing Romney, Billado, Sanders and the election
We had better start framing the conversations — framing the questions and framing the debate — or we will lose to the propagandists.
Roper: Politicizing our kids and rising suicide rates
Let’s be honest with our kids — the world we live in is not the apocalyptic nightmare some would have you believe. The truth is we are lucky to be living in the least violent, most abundant, healthy, wealthy, peaceful time in human history. There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic.