The Vermont Podcast

Vermont Podcast: Property Tax Relief? Not So Soon!

Guy, Paul, and Tim take a deep dive into a bill, soon to be signed into law, that will transform how Vermont runs and pays for public education. Alos, the No King’s Rally and more. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or … Read more

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Klar: Free Food Fracas Exposes Progressive Folly

A controversial Burlington, Vermont, food distribution center run by self-avowed Marxist anarchists is set to be relocated due to business complaints of increasing crime and declining commerce. The City Council voted to relocate the free meal facility, sparking outrage and pushback from the same progressive voices that have been criticized for their role in the destruction … Read more

Right Side Up Splash with Mike T

Right Side Up: 6-16-2025

This week, we discuss the Parental Bill of Rights, school choice, EPA power plant regulations repeal, and hurdles to the Global Warming Solutions Act. 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 – We want to … Read more

The Vermont Podcast

Vermont Podcast: Did the VTGOP Really Compare the LA riots to 9/11?

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 – We want to hear from you, too! Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube for new episodes of GrokTALK!, Right Side Up, The Blue Collar Intellectual, … Read more

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Roper: “There is No Affordable, Equitable Way”

As the Vermont Climate Council punches away at a document that will, I assume, be heralded as “The Plan” (cue heavenly chorus) to meet the greenhouse gas reduction mandates of the Global Warming Solutions Act, I’m happy to say a few honest, semi-sane voices have emerged in their debate. Will the majority on the Council … Read more

Klar: The University of Vermont Quietly Bends the DEI Knee to Trump

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” Numerous American colleges promptly began reassessing their DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies to ensure they did not jeopardize their federal funding. Some universities that embraced race-based admissions or benefits policies concurrently turned … Read more

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Roper: A Final Plea for Property Tax Relief

In 2024, when Vermont property taxpayers were whacked with an average 14 percent year over year increase, with some communities seeing nearly 40 percent increases, nobody (or at least not enough) in the legislature asked if citizens could afford this. They just shrugged their shoulders and stuck us with the bill. Same as every year … Read more

Right Side Up Splash with Mike T

Right Side Up 6-9-2025

This week, we discuss family, Father’s Day, and the energy choices – or lack of them.” 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 – We want to hear from you, too! Please like, follow, or … Read more

The Vermont Podcast

The Vermont Podcast: Buzz Over Butt-Wipe Becca

Guy and Paul discuss Becca Balint’s butt wiping comment and the response from national media 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! Please like, follow, or subscribe … Read more

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Roper: Climate Action Plan 2.0: Still Not a Plan!

The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2020 established the Climate Council and tasked it with developing a plan to meet the greenhouse gas reduction mandates outlined in that law. That was five years ago. Their first “plan,” released in December 2021, was/is, as I pointed out at the time, not a plan. It was/is an … Read more

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MacDonald: Is Vermont the Worst State for Election Integrity? (Almost!)

California and Hawaii were Worse The Heritage Foundation just released its 2025 Election Integrity Report. In order to help voters, state legislators, election officials, and all Americans who are interested in ensuring a fair and secure election process, The Heritage Foundation has published this Election Integrity Scorecard, which compares the election laws and regulations of each … Read more

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Roper: Vermont’s Insane 9.1 Billion Dollar Budget

Ronald Reagan once quipped that government is like a baby, an endless appetite on one end, and no discipline on the other. No place lives up to – or down to as the case may be — that analogy more so than Vermont. In case you missed it amongst all the hubbub and controversy surrounding … Read more

Right Side Up Splash with Mike T

Right Side Up 6-2-2025

Right Side Up is back for another episode, covering news and politics in your neck of the woods. This week, some national issues including one featured here on GraniteGrok. 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 … Read more

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Klar: Vermont’s Middlebury College Should Not Receive Federal Funding

Middlebury College was a bastion of eugenics theory a century ago. The school today teaches an offensive array of racist ideologies that are indistinguishable from its eugenics advocacy of yesteryear. Middlebury College seeks to scapegoat former Vermont Governor John Mead for modest pro-eugenics comments made a hundred years ago, obscuring its active and ongoing neo-racist teachings. The … Read more

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MacDonald: Ben & Jerry’s Latest Energy Virtue Signal?

One of the excuses the Climate Cult makes for ignoring the significant emissions from biomass plants is that, because it is carbon captured by plants, it makes it renewable. Plants capture CO2, so it’s okay to burn them and emit whatever into wherever. This is a cop out. Every fuel on the planet, except nuclear, … Read more

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Roper: PUC Refuses to Enforce Stupid, Unworkable Law

When the Democrat supermajority passed Act 18, the Clean Heat Standard, back in 2023 it came with a provision called the “check back” wherein the legislature would have to vote to approve (or not) rules subsequently drafted by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for operating the law’s carbon credit exchange. During the 2024 campaign, incumbents … Read more

The Vermont Podcast

Podcast: Vermont Cited by DHS for Defying Federal Immigration Law

Breaking: Vermont cited by DHS as ‘sanctuary jurisdiction’ defying federal immigration law with Guest, Rob Roper. We will also discuss the Vermont Legislature’s progress on Education Reform, and whether the Clean Heat Standard is ‘dead‘. Authors’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or … Read more

Roper: Democrats Go Full Partisan on Education Reform

Last week, Senate President Pro Tem, Philip Baruth (D/P-Chittenden Central) decided to pull the education reform bill, H.454, off of the calendar where it was scheduled for a floor vote. He did this not because it wasn’t going to pass, but because it was – but with both Republican and Democrat votes. That was too … Read more

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