Tag: Vermont Grok

Clean Heat Standard Will Hurt Poor Vermonters on LIHEAP Heating Assistance

July 16, 2024July 14, 2024

by Rob Roper

The Equity Advisory Group (EAG) to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) heard testimony on July 9th from Richard Giddings of the Department of Children and Families about how the Clean Heat Standard law would impact low-income Vermonters who receive home heating assistance in the winter. The news was not good for LIHEAP (Low Income Heating Assistance … Read more

Supermajority Votes for Even Higher Health Insurance Costs

May 10, 2024

by Rob Roper

Ask people why Vermont is unaffordable, and health insurance is one of the main pillars of our unaffordability crisis, along with education property taxes, the cost of housing, and energy prices. These highly regulated by our legislature plans go up every year by amounts far in excess of inflation. For 2024 alone, the Green Mountain … Read more

Taxes, Inflation, Vacancies, and Shoplifting Becoming Too Hard To Bear

February 8, 2024

by John Klar

A convergence of financial pressures threatens to send shock waves through America’s commercial real estate sector in 2024. As a record number of outstanding commercial mortgages mature, refinancing at nosebleed interest rates is a daunting hurdle for investors and lenders alike.

Observing a Poster Child For Democrat Decline in Real Time …

July 27, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

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.

You Can Contribute to Vermont Grok Too!

July 15, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

Vermont Grok, which we’ll also refer to as Green MountainGrok once the new banner logo is done and in place, is a refuge for conservative and Conservatarian thought, including yours. You, dear reader, are as much a content creator on these pages as Rob Roper and John Klar.