Sitemap - 2023 - Behind the Lines: Rob Roper on Vermont Politics
When Is Someone Paying More Than “Their Fair Share”?
The Democrats Are Playing Chess…
VT Climate Council Can’t Decide Which Gas/Diesel Tax It Likes Best
Shock Poll (NOT)! Vermonters Don’t Want to Pay ANYTHING for Democrats’ Climate Agenda
Former Democrat Speaker of the House Named President of State’s Most Prominent News Outlet
An 18 Percent Property Tax Increase Will Not Fix Our Public Schools
Report: Clean Heat Standard “Not Cost Effective”
Poll: Dem/Prog Supermajority Super Out of Touch
More Vote Fraud that Never Happens Happened Again. And Again and Again.
Two New Studies Show VT Renewable Energy Policy Is All Cost/No Benefit for Ratepayers
NBC’s GOP Debate Was Actually Pretty Good
The Hamas/Israeli Conflict Exposed a Horrible Flaw In How We're Educating Our Own Kids
VT Public Schools: Where Talking Llamas Teach Kids the “F” Word
Absentee Ballot Fraud Is Real! (When It Happens to a Democrat…)
VT Energy Policy: Saving the Planet, or Feathering Nests?
Why Can’t Vermont Kids Read? Left Wing Ideology Trumped Evidence
Former Rep Tries to Hoodwink Vermonters
Survey Says! Vermonters Really Don’t Support State Energy Policy
VT Renewable Energy Standard: A “Shell Game” of “Picking Winners & Losers”
Why is the Vermont Media Ignoring the Curt Hier vs. Slate Valley School Board Story?
Who Owns That Clean Heat Carbon Credit?
PUC Stands for People Utterly Clueless
Conflicts of Interest in the Renewable Energy Standard Working Group
To Be Anti-Fascist, Support Our Constitution
The “Expand the Supreme Court” Letter Is a Call for Insurrection.
Are $6 Per Gallon Gas Prices Coming to Vermont?
Another Example of Climate Hysteria Leading to Dumb, Misguided Policy
When A School Board Member Actually Puts Kids First
Business Group Wants 802,000 Vermonters by 2035.
Does Paying Flood Victims to Get Cars That Explode When Wet Make Sense?
If you really care about Donald Trump, don’t let him be the Republican nominee
"Gold Standard" Study Shows Charter Schools Outperform Public Schools
Biden Won’t, and Was Never Going to, Be the Democrats’ Nominee
Are Some on the Left Realizing VT Climate Policy Is a Useless Waste?
Let Health Insurance Be Insurance Again
Want a Balanced Checkbook? Yes, It DOES Have to Be Republicans
NY Unlikely to Save VT Climate Plan
Copeland-Hanzas’ and Her Party's Climate Policy Sets Up More Disasters
Climate Change and Gravity Are Kind of Different
State Rep Hosts Event Resulting in Multiple ODs and One Death
Biggest Flood Related Scam: The Global Warming Solutions Act
Vermont LTG Launches “Banned Book” Story Hour
Ben & Jerry’s Says, “Hold My Bud Light!”
Who's Responsible for Vermont's Failing Schools?
Scott Vetoes One More, Nixes “Bottle Bill”
Climate Council Eyes Transportation Carbon Tax on Top of S.5 Home Heating Tax
So, a 78% Approval Rating and $2 Gets You a Cup of Coffee
Lawmaker Seek Ways to Continue Discriminating Against Christians
So, the legislature just decided to start automatically deducting 5% of Vermonters’ paychecks.
Scott’s Veto of Childcare Bill Should be Upheld
Ad for Clean Heat Jobs Shreds “S.5 Is Just a Study” Line
Scott’s Veto of Legislative Pay Raises
Higher Home Heating Fuel Prices Are Just the Beginning. Next Up, Gas & Diesel.
Analyzing the media bias in Clean Heat Standard coverage
The weird irony of school mascot controversies
Vermonters – desperately – need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights
Unrepresentative, under-qualified legislature gives itself a massive pay raise.
The talking point that the Clean Heat Standard will “only cost pennies” is observably false.
The talking point that the Clean Heat bill will help the poor is a cruel lie.
Vermont’s legislature is blowing big bucks on failed experiments.
All eyes are on Senator Dick Sears
Is this what Sen. Kitchel meant by a legislative “check back”?
Actions speak louder than words regarding Clean Heat Standard costs.
Supermajority’s taxing and spending is divorced from reality.
Giving 16 and 17-year-olds the vote.
Will the Clean Heat Standard destroy Vermont’s maple sugar industry?
Vermont does not need or want a full time, professional legislature.
Attorney General Charity Clark ducks question about GWSA lawsuit.
So, the “check back” in S.5 isn’t really a check back.
Auditor’s Report: Just how bad our lawmakers screwed up the broadband buildout.
Rep. tells ANR Secretary to “lighten up” on informing citizens about cost of Clean Heat Standard
VPIRG showcases widespread mental health damage they’ve inflicted on young Vermonters.
Hypocrisy of Clean Heat Standard advocates on display
Yes, public schools should not lock five-year-olds in closets
Can we dispense with the “we’re just asking” BS?
Biomass controversy boils over in Climate Council
Vermont’s mail-in ballot system is not secure.
The VT media lost control of the narrative on S.5
Just Kill the UnAffordable Heat Act
Senators Don’t Care What Their Constituents Think about the UnAffordable Heat Act.
Vermont’s public schools are a hot mess
Senator says “Don’t slop lies” about the Clean Heat Standard.
Epiphany in Vermont Climate Council: The Climate Action Plan isn’t realistic.
Director of Racial Equity says Clean Heat Act “doesn’t meet the mark.”
The conflicts of interest that lead to bad laws like the “Unaffordable Heat Act”
Senator calls Clean Heat Standard a “Rube Goldberg” contraption.
Partisan legislators are going after the wrong schools
Equity and social justice provisions of GWSA are a farce
Lawmakers’ appetite for programs is way bigger than the state’s labor force
Dealers testify their customers can’t afford a new 70¢ to $1.00 tax on heating fuel
Vermonters are facing an avalanche of new taxes
CLF is gearing up to sue Vermont over Global Warming Solutions Act
The $383 million Vermont childcare proposal is not “for the kids”
Clean Heat Standard will have Vermonters paying 70¢/gal. more to heat their homes – at least.
The $383 million price tag for childcare is a launch pad, not a ceiling
Vermonters deserve to know what the Clean Heat Standard is, does, and will cost.
BIPOC members accuse Climate Council of racial ‘tokenism’