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Gov. Scott signs EO extending the state’s hotel/motel program for some homeless, not all. Paul and Guy discuss the legislative battle to fund housing for the homeless in local hotels or motels. Plus MAHA, genre transition, and a lot more. Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube and check for Replays of Granite State … Read more
In 2024, the Vermont legislature charged the State Treasurer’s Office with studying what a “Cap & Invest” program would look like as a means for meeting the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) targets for greenhouse gas reduction in the transportation sector (aka you driving your car). That report is now complete, and, just as the Public Utilities … Read more
Governor Scott and the House and Senate Democrat majorities are at loggerheads over the motel voucher program that pays to put up homeless people in, well, motel rooms. The governor vetoed the budget adjustment bill over a $1.8 million spending increase for the program and is threatening to do so again if a revised version … Read more
What Does That Even Mean? According to Summit Defense Criminal Lawyers, you are less likley to get arrested in Washington, Michigan, and Vermont, than in any other states in the nation. How you take that is a matter of personal preference. Criminals might think, damn, better places to commit crimes, and that might be correct. … Read more
Late last year, there was a big to-do about nothing in the Green Mountain State. The “nothing” is that by reducing its “emissions,” Vermont will somehow save something – not money, they are burning that like used tires. It’s okay, it’s not the legislator’s money. However, as the deadline approached, some estimates had them missing … Read more
Democrats are in full retreat from the Clean Heat Standard law (Act 18) they passed in 2023. The carbon credit (aka carbon tax) on home heating fuels was and is a policy and political disaster. Vermonters want to see it repealed. Privately, a meaningful chunk of Democrats want to see it repealed. But there is … Read more
This week we talk about the new makeup of the legislature, public safety issues, the Democrat majority ignoring what’s important, the abuse of welfare housing arrangements (and warehousing people), plus a lot more. Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube and check for Replays of Granite State Live, GrokTALK! and Right Side Up, or … Read more
This week, the latest on the Clean Heat Standard, Education funding…more Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube and check for Replays of Granite State Live, GrokTALK! and Right Side Up, or follow these links to their podcast pages. Our Current Local Podcast Lineup
It’s been asked a lot lately with budgetary challenges running up against a lack of tax capacity, and the backdrop of DOGE findings of government waste at the federal level, “Do our elected representatives ever go back and evaluate the programs they pass to see if they are working as promised?” Not really, no. And … Read more
You’d think that with everything happening in the realm of energy policy – the need to do something about the trainwreck Clean Heat Standard, the failure to meet the first Global Warming Solutions Act mandate for 2025, the lawsuit resulting from that, the projection that we’ll miss the 2030 deadline as well, the threatened cuts … Read more
This week on Right Side Up, Mike and his co-host discuss the lack of free speech in Montpelier, Vermont, the Democratic Party’s costly and destructive energy policy, and the questions surrounding school choice. Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube and check for Replays of Granite State Live, GrokTALK! and Right Side Up, or … Read more
This week, we talk about the scheduled educational event hosted by the Vermont Family Alliance to educate Vermonters about the growing detransition phenomenon and how Trans activists disrupted the event. The VDC story video made Jesse Watters’ show on Fox. . Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube and check for Replays of Granite … Read more
Two days after transgender activists disrupted a peaceful, educational National Detransitioning Awareness Day event at the Vermont State House, and one day after the Senate and House (Democrat) Majority Leaders blamed the Vermont Family Alliance event organizers for their “attack” on trans rights, the VFA is demanding an apology. VDC’s video footage of biological males dressed … Read more
The Hartford Selectboard has passed its chair duties on to multi-term member Mary Erdei, who is serving her third term. Ms. Erdei recently sent a letter to the Valley News regarding patriotism, which was titled “Where patriotism belongs.” In it, Ms. Erdei makes mention of questions presented to board candidates who were representing themselves to … Read more
It’s safe to say Senator Terry Williams (R-Rutland) and the Republican senators landed a blow with their parliamentary attempt to strip the Natural Resources & Energy Committee of the Clean Heat Standard repeal bill (S.68) and bring it to the floor for an up or down vote. Though all seventeen senate Democrats banded together to … Read more
In 2016, our Irasburg farm was visited by a Vermont Agency of Agriculture agent who informed me it was illegal for me to sell halves of beef. I decided to fight what was obviously an unconstitutional attempt to restrict small farms from centuries of practice, in ways that would hurt our businesses (especially on-farm slaughterers and custom … Read more
This week…more politics in your neighborhood including Town Meeting, local elections, a possible repeal of the tax on social security and regressive energy policy. Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube and check for Replays of Granite State Live, GrokTALK! and Right Side Up, or follow these links to their podcast pages. Our … Read more
This week, on Friday at Four, we discuss misbehavin’ Dems at the joint Session of Congress, Vermont’s rising crime problem, more on the anti-Vance protests, Ukraine, and other news from the past week in Vermont. Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube and check for Replays of Granite State Live, GrokTALK! and Right Side … Read more
For years now, Vermont’s public schools have been used as an experimental testing ground for the indoctrination of children with “theories” that eclipsed learning of core learning in math, reading, writing, and other subjects. Queer theory, race theory, Social Emotional Learning, and other speculative (partisan) policies were launched against Vermont’s children by school administrations unaccountable … Read more
No doubt the defund the police movement has been devastating for Burlington and other communities throughout Vermont, as our once safest-in-the-nation state has seen an unprecedented and undesirable rise in crime. But while “Defund the Police!” has gotten all the headlines and protest placards (cue Law & Order theme music), “In the criminal justice system, … Read more