Sitemap - 2025 - Behind the Lines: Rob Roper on Vermont Politics

This month the state will start deducting 5% of some workers' wages unless they actively opt out of VT Saves

Climate Action Plan Demands Spend, Spend, Spend!

Did Republicans Get Played on Education Reform?

“There is no affordable, equitable way” to meet GWSA target

A Final Plea for Property Tax Relief

Climate Action Plan 2.0: Still Not a Plan!

Vermont Has a $9.1 BILLION Budget

PUC Thumbs Nose at Legislators Over Clean Heat Standard

Democrats Go Full Partisan on Education Reform

Unless It Lowers Taxes, Vote NO on the Education “Reform” Bill

Unpaid Leave Bill Comes with a Cost

From “Net Zero” to Just Zero

Bernie and the Privileged Political Class

Fate of Disastrous EV Cars & Truck Mandates Rests with Governor

Climate Activist Admits No Real Savings from “Social Cost of Carbon”

Democrats – Again – Block Efforts to Repeal/Reform Unpopular Climate Laws

Sen. Watson’s Dishonest Climate Politics

Now a $17 Million Tax Increase on Beer, Wine, & Liquor?!

Could Federal Spending Cuts End VT Vote by Mail?

We Are Spending a Half Billion on Climate Change Policies!

Some on the Left Admit Climate Change Policy Is Robin Hood in Reverse

Democrats’ Education Finance Proposal is a Betrayal

"Make Big Oil Pay!" Flounders

Clean Cars & Trucks Heading for a Crash

Special Interests Versus the Children

Treasurer’s Report: “Cap & Invest” Program on Fossil Fuels Requires 80¢/Gal Gas Tax to Meet GWSA Mandates

Who Is Using the Motel Voucher Program?

Dems Clean Heat Face Saving Attempt Blowing Up in Face

Is VT Pre-K Program Driving Up Property Taxes and Harming Kids?

A Bill So Absurd in Every Respect I Can’t Find Words for a Headline

The Clean Heat Standard Is a Mess Democrats Need to Clean Up

State’s Attorneys Trying to Push Back the Rising Tide of Crime with a Broom

Senate Democrats Block Vote to Repeal Clean Heat Standard

Governor’s Education Plan “Fixes” Too Many Things That Don’t Need Fixing

GWSA Transportation Mandates Will Cost More Than $177 Million Per Year

VT Democrats Need to Fish or Cut Bait on Climate Policies

Democrats Refuse to Consider Repeal of Unworkable, Unaffordable Climate Laws

Pucker Up for Kissing Your Sister

Renewable Energy Standard Costs Vermonters tens of millions every year

VT Dems’ “Green” Agenda Is Driving the Housing Crisis

So Much for Saving Democracy!

Replacing the “It’s Not a Carbon Tax” with a Carbon Tax

Poorly Conceived, Ineptly Written, Act 18 Requires Full Repeal

Governor Scott Wants to Lower Property Taxes and Reform Public Education

The New Clean Heat Standard Spin Is Dangerously Laughable

58¢ Per Gallon! And That Still Low

Our Government Doesn’t Do Things Affordably

House Democrats Circling Wagons Around Clean Heat Standard

Randy Brock for Senate President Pro Tem!

Legislature, Resolve to Cut Spending in the New Year