Parents Appeal To U.S. Supreme Court After Vermont Courts Ruled Schools Can Vaccinate Kids Against Parents’ Wishes

A Vermont family whose 6-year-old son was vaccinated with an experimental Covid-19 intervention against the family’s wishes has appealed a Vermont Supreme Court ruling. The Vermont court had ruled that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP) prohibits such claims, granting immunity to school and government personnel when they mandate vaccinations. Stunningly, the Vermont … Read more

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Economic Freedom: NH No. 1, Vermont 46th.

Granite Staters have been celebrating another number one. No, it’s not the lowest tax burden, the safest state, or the lowest poverty level, though it consistently ranks best (or one of the best) for those. It is economic freedom, and New Hampshire is number one again—not just in the US but in all of North … Read more

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Dem Majority Leader Blames Losses on Voters Who “Didn’t Understand”

In an interview on WVMT’s Morning Drive, the newly elected Democrat Majority Leader in the Vermont House, Lori Houghton (D-Essex), blamed their historic election losses on (drumroll) poor communications. Asked by host Kurt Wright what lessons she took from November 5th, Houghton replied, “Vermonters didn’t understand that what we passed will help them. And we … Read more

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Why Are Property Taxes Absurdly High?

Sane people are puzzled over the question of how our Vermont public school system can lose roughly twenty-five percent of its student population since Act 60 “reform” in 1997, yet now cost three times as much – and return worse results for students. But conversations in the Commission on the Future of Education in Vermont … Read more

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NH Man Lucky To Be Facing Vermont Justice, VT Judge Says

A Vermont judge on November 3 told a New Hampshire man pleading guilty to nine crimes that he was lucky to be in a Vermont courtroom instead of facing sterner justice his home state.  Judge Michael Kainen’s remarkable admission about Vermont’s criminal justice system was reported by Caledonian-Record editor Dana Gray in the Nov. 4 edition of … Read more

To Solve Education Funding/Quality Crisis, Look to Independent Schools

As I have noted in past observations of the Commission on the Future of Public Education in Vermont, this collection of special interest group lobbyists has no real desire to solve the property tax/education finance crisis facing Vermonters today. Their objective, quite to the contrary, is to keep the money flowing unhindered and unquestioned into … Read more

Importing Millions Of Illegals vs. Deporting Them

Isn’t it amusing the way Democrat Governors discover State’s rights, Federalism, and Nullification when it suits them? They are not inviolable rights but pieces to be played. It was expected, of course, and they have delivered (again). The governors of Illinois, California, Colorado, and Massachusetts, as well as mayors in cities like Denver and Boston, … Read more

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So, Only Criminals Can Carry Guns in Bars?

For the sake of argument, let’s agree that people inclined to ignore the law will. Let us also consider that if you want to shoot someone or a bunch of them, the best possible locations are ones where you know you’ll have a significant force advantage. It, therefore, follows that any act of government that … Read more

A Case of Vermont Shame

I have undertaken a Petition to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the Politella family. I do not normally practice law. This is how I got involved. When I first read about the Vermont Supreme Court’s decision in Politella v. Windham Supervisory Union et al, I was shocked that any court would deprive … Read more

Burlington Residents Continue to Suffer for Their Actions

Hippy enclaves top-heavy with progressives are 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

Democrats Didn’t Get the Message

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

VDCTV – Election Consequences

Guy Page and Rob Roper talk Changes in Legislative leadership? Election consequences for Clean Heat Standard, property taxes, illegal immigrants.

The VT Red Wave Was Kevin Ellis’ Fault

I’m picking on Kevin here because he’s written two mostly ridiculous articles following the November 5 election lamenting how Donald Trump won a stunning victory nationally, and Vermont Republicans shattered the Democrats’ supermajorities in both chambers of the legislature, but he’s not alone. I would have let it go and allowed him and John Walters, … Read more

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Are Vermonters Ready to Buy Cars in New Hampshire?

Vermont tied its increasingly rickety wagon to California’s air quality standards for motor vehicles. Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII) “requires manufacturers to produce vehicles certified to increasingly more stringent emission categories, according to schedules based on vehicle fleet emission averages for each manufacturer.“ Vermont legislators handed authority over Vermonters to wingnuts in California and they … Read more

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Voters to Legislature: Enough Already!

The big question many pundits ask in the wake of the significant Republican pick-ups in the state house and senate is what they will do with their newfound numbers. Six pick-ups in the Vermont State Senate and what looks like around twenty in the house (there will be at least one contested outcome in Bennington-1 … Read more

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