You’ll have noticed – I hope – that Vermont is something of a train wreck and that the Demcorats here, as they do everywhere, want that for us in New Hampshire. VermontGrok is focused on documenting that ongoing partisan derailment.
But not everything published there will appear here. Most of it will not. VermontGrok is for Vermont. We want them to build the audience with news, issues, and opinion about Vermont, for Vermont. There will be exceptions, but we think you should visit it, if not daily, a few times a week.
Lessons can be learned. We can see how policy affects the state and the people in real time and work to prevent that here or wherever you live. Maybe even in Vermont!
Rob Roper is already contributing. If you missed his bio, he is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank.
John Klar is about to join us any day. John is an attorney, author, and farmer residing in Brookfield and the former pastor of the First Congregational Church of Westfield. He has also run for public office, among other credits.
We are also expecting content beginning next month from Michael Bielawski, who has “written freelance stories for a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and websites while living in the New York City area, Seoul, South Korea, upstate New York, and here in Vermont where I’ve been since August 2014.”
Johnny Bananas frequently writes satire about Vermont and will continue to do that. Grok contributor Aaron Warner is a Vermont resident who will also be adding his voice on local issues there. And I’ve been known, from time to time, to write a word or two about the not-so-slow-motion trainwreck to our geographic and political left.
In time we hope to ad local Op-Eds as we have here and encourage a few more brave Vermonters to become regular contributors, almost all of which have a bearing on New Hampshire and New England; we share an energy grid, Vermont is a sanctuary state, and we get “migrants” and “refugees” crossing the Connecticut River – both citizen and non-citizen, alike.
What happens there matters here. Their influence can and does poison our well. So, please visit VermontGrok to catch the inside scoop from a few folks who still have enough sense to see where things are going and how badly they’ve turned out.
And no, the page isn’t finalized. We have to add the updated graphics and add an archive link so you can get to stories that have scrolled off the home page. It’s coming! Until then, click on the author’s name on any of their posts to see their content library.
Thanks for Reading; we hope to see more of you here and VermontGrok.
