Toke away, it’s Walmart. No one cares.

Stop at Cold Hollow Cider mill, the Cabot cheese annex and lake Champlain chocolates in Waterbury/Waterbury Center rather than Ben and Jerry’s. Lake Champlain Chocolates ice cream is excellent.
You will get better quality and more varied local stuff that is NOT owned by a multinational corporation.

Wow. I read this as “someone tried to mount a Jersey” and choked on my oatmeal.

It’s a blurry morning.

A good guy with a gun.

The land lord could do that, but then the rent would have to be increased 10% for the annual consulting/planning fee.

Yep. It’s a rigged system to keep those in charge in charge.
I’m not sure how it is even legal in todays world. Our old Secretary of State supported town meeting floor votes and our new Secretary does as well.

Not on a town meeting floor vote. You have to be there in person, usually at an unknown time to vote on earned articles. (There is no schedule as to when votes are held)

If you are working, housebound, sick, caring for someone who is sick, traveling or deployed, or infirm, you don’t get to vote on your towns budget or school district budgets.

Absolutely a travesty.

Ahhhh, town meeting day floor votes.

Where the white haired landed gentry make the spending decisions for the town without having to see or hear from the working poor, the house bound, the sick, the traveling, the shy or the rest of the undesirables.

The town meeting day tradition of discrimination by floor vote needs to end.

Take my upvote.
I burbled coffee out my nose when I read this.
Please, take my upvote.

Why the fear porn post?

I really like Teslas, but am sick of their design language.

The vast majority of green energy subsidies (EV rebates, solar panel kickbacks) have been used by the upper middle class and the wealthy in Vermont, particularly those who own a home.
Heck, entire solar panel fields were built as investments by rich out of staters who got a guaranteed high return via feed in tariffs.

The rural working class that has to rent a shitty, drafty 100 year old apartment and drive 35+minutes each way has been and currently is getting screwed by the green push from our legislators.

I agree! Do want the working poor and renters to keep subsidizing the green handouts to the landed gentry of Vermont?

K. You keep on telling yourself that subsidizing the wealthy in Vermont with tax payer money is gonna solve the worlds climate issues.

Never said they did. That’s why I asked the OP the question.

Based on their post, I assume the OP is critical of those who question climate change.

While I don’t question climate change, I am also not naive to the fact that any and all actions taken by Vermont and its residents will do fuck all for preventing/reducing climate change.

So, when the OP is dismissive and calls people deniers it really solves nothing and further serves to divide people.

Personally, I’d rather spend state resources on educating our children than giving a rich people a discount on a Tesla or a heat pump while we tax the rural poor for trying to survive.

Pretty simple. The “bingo” means that the previous post was spot on.

The question to the OP was simple.

Sorry to confuse you.

Classic gate keeping. Amplifying voices of those who “qualify” while silencing those voices on the margin who the anointed have deemed as “unqualified”.

What’s next? Are you gonna suggest red lining as a way to improve housing quality and a poll taxes as a way to ensure only “educated” people vote?

I still stick with zone 4 out of caution for all foundational plantings, but have been growing annuals for zone 5 with great results the last 6-7 years.
Many of the garden centers away from the lake are beginning to carry more zone 5 plants.

Yeah. The millionaire movement.

Bingo. Hey OP, tell me what impact Vermont has on the global climate?

Sounds like the same reasons cops have been quitting for years.

Accountability matters. The state and your school districts don’t want accountability for themselves or the students.

You reap what you sow.

Does “unlimited user textbook” mean that an unlimited # of people can have the book at the same time?

Nope. State government is your best shot at a framework that might work.
National legislation will only make things worse as square pegs don’t fit into round holes.

Cause the last urban renewal plan was soooo great. /s

Because density has its own cost. Particularly waste water and storm water management.

Outside of the bigger towns, most of vermont doesn’t have the infrastructure for density.