Hippy enclaves top-heavy, with progressives sre getting what they voted for. They elected ’em, and today’s Burlington is the result, but that unpleasant truth seems incapable of penetrating their thick skulls. The city’s police force has been understaffed since it defunded it. Crime is up, property crime is up, drug use and overdoses are up, … Read more
The Burlington Police Department and the public met at City Hall on Thursday afternoon to share information and solutions regarding how to curb increased crimes in The Queen City. Both the public and the understaffed department shared exasperation as well as hope that things could improve. Much of the meeting was Police Chief Jon Murad … Read more
The New York Times (NYT) has a breathless piece by a Palestinian “shooting victim.” Hisham Awartani survived a gunshot wound he received in Burlington, Vermont, so why not compare that to getting shot at in Gaza?
Retiring Burlington, Vermont, Mayor Miro Weinberger is, by all sane accounts, left-wing, as was his anointed replacement Joan Shannon; in anywhere but Burlington, they are far-left Democrats. So when the city elected a “progressive” last week, well, guess what?
The February Burlington Police Chief’s Report is out, and though only two months into the year already, the data is continuing to trend upward. The report states, “Incidents in 2024 are up 23% compared to 2023. BPD is addressing more incidents than in years with 50% fewer patrol officers.
We were quick like a bunny back in November when news broke that three Palestinian “students” had been shot in Burlington, Vermont. It became a national story when Biden, Harris, and even the jilted Bernie Sanders (twice left at the Presidential Primary Altar by the DNC) milked the attack for Mic time.
The Emmy Award-winning television show Survivor will be headed to the Green Mountain state to film their latest installment, “Survivor: Burlington,” this month. Airing its forty-second series since it debuted in 2000. The producers were looking for a location that could provide a unique set of challenges not yet faced by previous contestants.
Three Middle-Eastern students visiting a family member of one of the three in Burlington, Vermont, were shot over the weekend. “The students, all age 20, were identified by their former school as Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdel Hamid, and Tahseen Ahliamed.”
There is one thing you can count on from Democrat voters in places like Burlington, Vermont. No matter how bad it gets, they’ll believe some other Democrat can make it better (the same way they claim their socialism will work ‘this time).
A bevy of climate and environmental organizations rallied behind Mayor Miro Weinberger yesterday in support of a Carbon Pollution Fee Ordinance going before the City Council next week.
If Vermont is the poster child for Democrat decline, Burlington is the picture at its center. It is by far Vermont’s largest municipality and, again -and perhaps then some – its greatest cistern of liberal policy, making its decline, while sad, easy to predict.
People who profit from prostitution are typically its boosters. They call it sex work, describe it as a right, and dress it up as a noble calling. That sounds great, but what legalized sex work actually looks like is slavery, trafficking, and sexual assault.
If you looked through the haze and smoke from all those peaceful protests back in 2020, you saw some things. The Democrat Cop haters running Burlington, Vermont, for example, defunded the city police force. Before that, they had 92 sworn officers. Today, they are down to sixty-three, twenty-two of whom are on actual patrol. Why … Read more
More glory showers itself upon progressive Burlington, Vermont. It seems they had a Pride parade last weekend (did everyone show their monkey-pox vaccine passport?) at which a 74-year-old gay man was harassed, beaten, and “robbed.”
We’ve been charting the Democrat decline of Burlington, Vermont, for a few years, and it is swirling the bowl as predicted. Property crime has been rising, and now gun crime is becoming a problem, but the local PD lacks resources. Can you guess why?
At least two decades before Libertarains created the Free State Project and chose New Hampshire as their target state, dirty left-wing hippies were invading Vermont.
A New Hampshire bill to legalize sex work “indoors” was recently killed in committee. It’s not dead yet. The recommendation could get flipped if they have the votes on the House floor (and then pass it), but that seems unlikely. No worries, just look left.
In the early part of the last century, National Socialists across Europe promoted the boycott of Jewish businesses. Why? According to the propaganda, atrocities in Palestine. Wait, you say to yourself, that sounds oh so very familiar.
Vermont Republicans picked up six seats in the Vermont Senate on November 5th, changing the partisan makeup of the chamber from 23-7 to 17-13, the highest percentage the VTGOP has had in over a quarter century. The Republicans succeeded in winning three open seat races and knocking off three Democrat incumbents, two of whom were … Read more
But Bernie-blue Vermont continuedsto shamelessly push anti-MAGA propaganda spewed by the mainstream media — in public schools, by paid teachers.