Does Increasing the Minimum Wage Work?
Post by Burlington Free Press. Increasing the minimum wage shouldn’t make much of a difference as the starting wage, whatever it is, is always going to be at the bottom. When you increase the minimum wage the wages for everyone else will go up to compensate for the difference as the person that’s been […]
Vote No on Burlington’s Proposed Redistricting Plan
Ballot Item 5 – Proposed charter change RE: Ward Boundaries, City council, School board, Ward officer, and Voter registration board composition? The proposed redistricting plan would add an additional ward for a total of 8 wards with 4 larger districts. There would be 2 less city councilors for a a total of 12 city councilors. […]
Vote No on Gun Control Ballot Items in Burlington
Ballot Items 6, 7 and 8 are about gun control and are probably the most controversial ballot items on the ballot. My guess is that like most things that city government tries to do this is just a step towards a complete gun ban in Burlington, which I’m sure some of the supporters of these […]
Remembering Karen Kerin – Vermont Libertarian Candidate for Attorney General
Karen was a fiscally conservative, pro-liberty supporter of the law as created by the nation and state founders. While campaigning, Karen fought for victim’s rights, regulatory reform and gun rights. Karen felt there was too little justice for the victims of crime. Karen felt that we had too many laws and regulations that intruded on […]
I’m dreaming of an Icy Christmas
My first post of 2014, begins with ranting about the weather ending in 2013, and continuing into 2014. Luckily, here in the New North End of Burlington, we had no power outages with the ice storm that left almost 1/2 an inch of ice over everything… The first day of the storm, we had an […]
DIY Websites with WordPress
From time to time we find that people want the lowest cost option available to get a web site started but still have the option to get outside help with the development/updating of the site. While we haven’t officially published this as a service, we have been offering to setup installation of WordPress (or Drupal […]
Tumblr Deletes Popular Blogger Account – Special $5/mo WordPress Hosting Offer
Since Yahoo bought Tumblr many users have been concerned about what changes in policy Yahoo might take with the popular blog service. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for Yahoo to start alienating users of Tumblr. The story of Bohemea having her accounts deleted for 5 copyright violation notices. Bohemea has blogged for 5 years, posting […]
Remembering Hardy Macia – Vermont Libertarian Activist
Last Sunday, I attended the “Celebration of Life” for Hardy Macia, former chair of the Vermont Libertarian Party and one of Vermont’s greatest Libertarian-activists. It was very moving to see so many people express how much he touched their lives. I said a few words about Hardy. For those interested, I have posted a transcript below…
Atlas Shrugged Comes to Vermont!
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 will begin showing at Essex Cinemas on April 29th.
Request Atlas Shrugged to be Shown in Vermont
Atlas Shrugged is coming to theatres April 15th… let them know that you want to see it here in Vermont!
Free Screening of Sick and Sicker Movie
The exclusive New England premier of Sick and Sicker, a 50-minute film that shows what happens