In a written statement released the opening day of the 2025 Legislative session and a day ahead of his fifth inaugural address, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott encouraged Vermont residents to watchdog the Legislature for excessive spending.
It’s big news that Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Threads and Instagram, is dropping its fact-checking program and instigating a system in which the public fact-checks itself.
As 2024 draws to a close and 2025 opens a fresh chapter, the sense of renewal and rejuvenation, of starting with a fresh slate, has a strong cultural pull.
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.
ABC settled a defamation suit in which George Stephanopoulos incorrectly said Trump had been found liable of raping E. Jean Carrol, rather than liable of sexual abuse. There’s a lot to unpack in this story.
Good progress. That’s an apt reflection of the town of Middlebury’s effort to manage its relatively small, and mostly cooperative, houseless population.
Leading off the front page in today’s Addison Independent is a blaring headline with two stories about two parents who have asked the Mary Hogan Elementary School to ban five books that teach gender issues to kindergarten students.
The task for the Commission on the Future of Public Education in Vermont is straightforward: devise a system that provides equitable, quality public education to all Vermonters — and make it affordable.
Being thankful isn’t always easy. That’s the realization many Vermonters may have post-election with a man unfit for the presidency in so many ways assuming power again, supported by a political party ever-more adjoined to him.
“Housing,” said Nevon Neary, executive director of the Rutland Regional Planning Commission, “doesn’t just pop up out of nowhere.”
With 2024-25 education property tax rate hikes well into double digits last year, it’s little doubt school boards will be primed for holding costs to a minimum for their upcoming budgets.
Trump’s dominance in the swing states reflected voters’ dissatisfaction with high inflation and the high cost of living that had followed the Covid 19 pandemic.
Vermonters witnessed as much of a change election as we’ve seen in the past couple of decades, as Republicans gained six seats in the Senate and 18 seats in the House.
In Addison County House and Senate races, here’s a key point to consider: What has caused the crises Vermont faces and who is in the best position to help solve the problem?
What’s interesting in the state’s House and Senate races this year is that most candidates from both political parties agree we need significant changes to create more affordable housing, reforms to funding education, and continuing to lower carbon emissi … (read more)
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