Vermont runs on volunteer nonprofit boards — and when one goes off the rails, almost nobody knows the rules. A plain-language map of Title 11B: the quorum law most boards get wrong, why public money buys zero transparency, and the levers di
RAD-VT is helping move Vermont’s dead “Tax the Rich” bill into election season. H.794 would have added income surcharges above $250,000 AGI, treated joint filers the same as single filers, and created a nonhomestead residential property-tax
A parody AI video asked whether Becca Balint thought Vermont farmers could leave. Her actual vote gives the question teeth: Balint voted against final passage of a House farm bill containing support for dairy, maple, local food purchasing,
An AI-generated parody video targeting Rep. Becca Balint has become an early test of Vermont's new synthetic-media law and renewed scrutiny of the federal NO FAKES Act she supports. As state officials review the video, critics are asking wh
Biden’s pardons were legally cleaner but politically uglier: unilateral protection for allies and family. Trump’s IRS settlement began with a real government abuse claim, but grew controversial when settlement terms appeared to protect Trum
If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact had been active in 2024, Vermont would have awarded its electoral votes to Donald Trump despite the state voting heavily for Kamala Harris. With Virginia now joining the compact, the agreement
When NewsNation host Chris Cuomo argued that Iran's 60% enriched uranium isn't weapons-grade and poses no imminent threat, he got the science wrong — not by a little, but by the IAEA's own definitions. The international nuclear watchdog cla
Sanders and Khanna want a 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires, citing Musk as the poster child. But Musk's companies directly employ roughly 160,000 people — about half of Vermont's entire workforce — and the $42 billion headline tax would
Britain says the current Iran conflict is not its war. But history shows London played a central role in creating it—through control of Iranian oil and a 1953 coup that drew the United States into the region. Decades later, the consequences
Excerpt: Ever wondered who's actually behind the Global Warming Solutions Act, the Clean Heat Standard, Act 181, or the road rule? This Saturday, they'll all be in one building in Moretown — and the public is invited. Here's your chance to
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent launched a federal fraud bounty program Monday, offering citizens 10 to 30 percent of fines collected from convicted fraudsters. Vermont has a comparable law on the books — but it requires hiring a lawyer to
Senator Bernie Sanders recently published a video conversation with Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, in which the AI obligingly endorsed a data center moratorium and validated Sanders' tech policy agenda. FYIVT ran the same questions throu
