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Krowinski vs. Sibilia for Speaker

VT Senate Democrats Didn’t Get the Message

The VT Red Wave Was Kevin Ellis’ Fault

Voters to Legislature: Scrap Clean Heat Standard and Cut Our Property Taxes!

Some Quick, Sleep-Deprived Observations on Yesterday’s Elections

Harris Ad Ironically Illustrates Why Vote-By-Mail Is Dangerous

Who is a Fascist?

The Real Misinformation Surrounding the Clean Heat Standard

Is Speaker Challenge a Sign of Big VTGOP Pickups in the House?

FPF Really Means “For Progressive Favoritism”

Here Comes the Other Carbon Tax! The One on Gasoline & Diesel!

Commission Assigned to Solve Property Tax Crisis Suggests More Taxes/"Bake Sales"

Can Vermont Republicans Win Control of the Senate?

Election Officials Sending Dead People, Non-Residents, Non-Citizens "Live" Ballots

PUC Writes Obituary for Supermajority’s Clean Heat “Credit” Scheme

Understanding the Clean Heat Standard and Its Potential Impact on Home Heating Fuel Prices

Efficiency Vermont Memo Implies Clean Heat Standard is Unworkable

Ballots Are in the Mail! And Yikes!

Unpromising Beginnings for Education Finance Reform

Lawmaker's Defense of Unaffordable Heat Act is Indefensible

Gov. Scott Sounds Alarm Over (Un)Affordable Heat Act

$40 Million a Year Just to Administer Clean Heat Standard

Will VT lawmakers drive up heating oil to $8.00/gal in bid to save planet?

Property Tax Question Blows Up in Radio Host’s Face.

UNH Poll Analysis: Some Democrats are More Equal than Others

45 Days of Early Voting Is Ridiculous and Bad

Who Voted How to Make Vermont So Freakin’ Unaffordable?

What IS Your Cost Ceiling for the Clean Heat Carbon Tax, Rep. Sibilia?

Learning the Wrong “Phil Scott” Lessons

We Are Governed by High School Bullies

EV Fees Should Go to Road Maintenance and Repair

Speaker Krowinski Feeling the (Clean) Heat

Clean Heat Standard Comes with $17 BILLION Price Tag!

Conservation Law Foundation Cashes In on GWSA “Please, Sue Us!” Clause

No way. Shocker. Who'da seen this coming?

Who Will Save Us from Crippling Education Taxes? Not This Crowd!

Make Big Oil Pay? Court Says Nope!

Clean Heat Standard Will Hurt Poor Vermonters on LIHEAP Heating Assistance

What “Paying Just a Little More” Really Means

The Property Tax Gaslighting Has Begun!

This Massive Property Tax Increase May Be Unconstitutional

Wither Goes the Office of Racial Equity?

Equity Advisory Committee Members Souring on Clean Heat Standard

Who’s Banning Books Now?

Who Wins "Biggest Dunce" Award for the Biennium?

How Does New Hampshire Spend Half the Money for Better Results?

Gemma Destroys the Clean Heat Standard

Welcome to the VT Republican Party, John Rodgers!

Media Bias at NPR, The New York Times… And Vermont Media?

The Clean Heat Standard Public Engagement Fiasco

Howard Dean vs. Phil Scott? Yes, Please!

Supermajority Votes for Even Higher Health Insurance Costs

The Climate Crusade That’s Bankrupting Vermonters

Clean Heat Mess Gets Even Messier

The New Klan with a Nazi Twist

A Modest Proposal for the Homeless Hotel Debacle

More Independent Schools and More Choice Are the Property Tax Solution

Democrat Supermajority Has No Interest in Solving the Property Tax Mess They Made

The Clean Heat Standard is too complicated to implement

Lessons From the Eclipse

Left Wing Logic: Nothing in Vermont Is Affordable, Why Should Energy Be?

Another Dumb Constitutional Amendment….

Democrats say, “Read My Lips: Yes! New taxes!” Republicans say, GET REAL!

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Legislate

Sunday Funny! Anti-Fossil Fuel Lobbyist Caught in Hot Mic Moment.

House Passes Renewable Energy Standard Amidst Cloud of Baloney

House Passes Racist, Homophobic Flavored Tobacco Ban

Rearranging One Deck Chair on the Sinking Clean Heat Standard

Senate President Pro Tem’s Disgraceful Anti-Small-“d”-Democratic Rant

Vermont Must Cap Individual Property Tax Increases

Will Legislators Fix Their Clean Heat Standard Catastrophe?

Vermont’s Education Property Tax System Is Not Broken

So, It’s Okay to Poison the Children Now?

Plastic Bag Ban Backfires on Environment

Pay No Attention to That Billion Dollar Price Tag!

Already the State Can’t Afford the Clean Heat Standard

Bad Information Leads to Bad Policy

“Solution” to high property taxes is… more higher taxes!

Legislature Logic: Ban Flavored Tobacco, but Not Flavored Pot, and Legalize Meth

The Mafia-Style Corruption in the Clean Heat Standard

Clean Heat Standard Exploding on the Launch Pad

State Senator melts down after learning she can only vote herself a 42% pay raise.

Get ready for $800 million in higher electric costs, just cuz.

The Last Democrat Pay Raise Bill Was Greedy. This One's Also Corrupt.

My Constituents Want School Choice and Must Be Stopped!

Stop Forcing EVs Down Our Throats

House Democrats Pass BYOD State Supported Drug Dens

Make VPIRG Pay

Sen. McCormack: “Am I so out of touch? No, it’s my constituents who are wrong.”

VT Democrats Open 2024 Session with 10% Income Tax Hike