Right Side Up Splash with Mike T

Podcast: Right Side Up 5-19-2025

This week we discuss the pause on clean truck mandates, the new Pope, and Chinese-made inverters. Authors’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Agree? Disagree? Submit Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com – We want to hear from you, too! Follow these links for … Read more

The Vermont Podcast

VDCTV: Governor Scott wont Enforce EV Mandate. What does this Mean?

This week, Ben from Ben & Jerry’s gets himself in trouble, Gov Scott puts the brakes on the EV mandate, the future of the VT GOP, and more. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Agree? Disagree? Submit Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com … Read more

VT Gov Phil Scott

Roper: From “Net Zero” to Just Zero

And then there were none. This week, Governor Phil Scott (R-VT) signed an executive order delaying the implementation of the California Clean Cars & Trucks policies in Vermont for a year. This essentially puts an end to the last standing significant GWSA greenhouse gas reduction scheme hatched up by the Democrats and Progressives in the … Read more

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Klar: Preserving our AGRIculture

My family of numerous lineages have been farmers here in Vermont. My father’s mother grew up and worked hard on a dairy farm in Sheldon Falls. My mother grew up on the farm near where I now live — the Stoddard farm, which is one of the founding family farms here in Brookfield. My Mom’s … Read more

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MacDonald: New Vermont Law Probably Violates Two Constitutions

Vermont has passed a law that allows the state attorney general to fine pregnancy care centers up to $10,000.00 for “advertising” the AG deems misleading. That’s the intent. Pro-Abortion Democrats passed a muzzle bill in 2023 to intimidate pregnancy care centers to the benefit of abortion clinics, but it didn’t work. Not exactly. It was … Read more

Hartford VT Town Hall by VT Living

Warner: Property Appraisals Increase By Hundreds of Thousands

A recent post on the “What’s Happening Hartford” Facebook page asked town members if their new property appraisals increased and by how much.  As the answers came in the numbers were staggering as were many of the complaints. The original poster (OP) stated their property assessed value increase by $10,000 which led to a slew … Read more

Klar: I ran from the law – to run a rural farm in Vermont

Mark Twain’s famous satire “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” chronicles the fictitious time travel of an engineer named Hank Morgan from East Hartford, Connecticut. After being struck in the head with a crowbar, he awakens in sixth-century England and works his way into King Arthur’s favor by use of his modern knowledge. I … Read more

The Vermont Podcast

Podcast: Don’t Tell Me Where to Live

Join us for a look at another week in Vermont politics. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube for early access to new episodes of GrokTALK!, Right Side Up, and Replays of Granite … Read more

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MacDonald: Is the Pandemic Bloom Off The Vermont Rose

Vermont’s population declined by 0.03 percent between 2023 and 2024. That’s 215 fewer people. About the same number of homeless people that were reported added in New Hampshire in the same period – an anecdotal observation with no connection, but a reader saw the decline on the Vermont side and wondered if it might be … Read more

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Roper: Fate of Disastrous EV Cars & Truck Mandates Rests with Governor

The latest clash between climate ideology and reality – the requirement in the Global Warming Solutions Act (2020) that Vermont adopt California’s Clean Cars and Clean Trucks standards – is coming to a head. So far reality has been racking up the victories with the Clean Heat Standard for home heating now lying “dormant” as … Read more

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Climate Activist Admits No Real Savings from “Social Cost of Carbon”

Vermont climate activists in the legislature and beyond continue to insist that their policies will ultimately save Vermonters money. How they reach this mathematically questionable conclusion (apart from the scenario where the politicians rob Peter to pay for Paul’s “free” weatherization project and installation of cold climate heat pumps in which case Paul certainly saves … Read more

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Christian School Still Banned From Vermont Sports

Chris Goodwin, coach of the Mid-Vermont Christian School girls basketball team, tells podcaster and former Olympic swimmer Riley Gaines that his private Christian school team is under a permanent ban from participating in Vermont school athletics, because the school forfeited a 2023 tournament game against an opposing team that included a biological male. The school … Read more

Right Side Up Splash with Mike T

Right Side Up 5-5-2025

This week, we discuss the Green Energy blackout, pending legislation, and national policy that is good for Vermont. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Submit Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube for early access to … Read more

The Vermont Podcast

The Trump administration’s impact on Vermont in first 100 days

The Vermont Podcast Note: VDCTV’s Friday at Four is now called The Vermont Podcast. We have updated the featured image and will reference the new name, but episodes will continue to have VDCTV as their byline. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, … Read more

Anne Watson Vermont State Senator

Dishonest Climate Politics

The chair of the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee and Kool-Aid filled climate change religionist, recently penned an op-ed essentially calling on Governor Scott to clean up the catastrophic climate policy mess she and her party created – and blaming him for the mess. It’s a craven political Hail Mary. Let’s take her argument … Read more

Remember When AmeriCorps Kids Stole Votes in New Hampshire.

Democrats keep finding the energy to get mad about everything, everywhere, all the time. They’re good at it, so this is like ‘Leg Day’ every day. The latest outrage is the neutering of AmeriCorps in its current form. Several states have sued, including Vermont, but one of my earliest “political” exposures to AmeriCorps was when … Read more

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High School Needs Major Renovation Due to PCB Contamination

At the most recent school board meeting Hartford High School Director of Facilities, Jonathan Garthwaite, updated the board on the status of the school building needing major renovations due to potential PCB contamination.  They are currently awaiting results from the air sample testing done earlier this month.  On the hook for the bill will be … Read more

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