Problem or opportunity?
Even before the pandemic, homeowners were switching their long-term rental apartments to short-term rentals (STRs) arranged by Airbnb and the like. Even way back then, new houses, at least here in Vermont, were More...
They could’ve really helped the homeless.
At the beginning of the pandemic Vermont used federal COVID funding to vastly expand a program providing emergency shelter in motels. Made sense since fear and lockdowns led to an unemployment More...
But has an even huger job ahead of him.
Ron DeSantis won newly red Florida by 19 points. Republican Governor Phil Scott won reelection here in Vermont with an historic 47-point margin over his Democrat opponent! This was apparently the More...
The price is often much higher than the risk avoided.
How many times in the past few years have we heard leaders say that some action was taken or not taken out of “an overabundance of caution”. This usually means that a politician is More...
Satellite Broadband is Terrestrial Emergency Proof
When tropical storm Irene lashed Vermont eleven years ago, many towns became islands. The roads and bridges to them were More...
Good news for Vermont.
Up until now, the only way to find out whether Starlink is immediately available where you want to use it was to try ordering and see whether the website forced you to backorder status. Doing that every day was not practical. Now there is an official map from Starli More...
This morning (March 29) at 11AM ET I'll be on WDEV (96.1 FM, 550 AM) in VT with Bill Sayre discus More...
Have you noticed that there are both severe inflation and a war going on?
Last year when you passed the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) over the Governor’s veto, you thought that we needed higher prices for fossil fuels to save th More...
Why would the legislature consider anything else?
“There are up to 852,000 acres of opportunity in Vermont to restore forest cover for climate mitigation. Reforesting these areas with approximately 46 More...
Vermont Carbon Budget Numbers Won’t Please the Green-Industrial Complex.
The Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA), which was passed More...
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