Just because you’re the BMOC in the State House doesn’t mean anyone knows your name outside of it, John Walters concludes about the failed LG candidacy of Senate Pro Tem Tim Ashe.

Marginal politicians should just shut up about not getting press coverage, the VPO’s John Walters says. They just haven’t earned it. And they probably wouldn’t like what they got, anyway.

VT Digger has dubbed LG candidate Scott Milne a “viable Republican.” Former Digger political columnist John Walters isn’t so sure.

Former Seven Days, former VT Digger and perpetually gadfline political commentator John Walters says serious, systemic police reform will never make it through the Vermont Legislature, because Tim Ashe and Mitzi Johnson won’t let it happen.

Ever the contrarian lightning rod, veteran opinion columnist/labor organizer John Walters has been fired for the second time in 10 months. That’s not always a bad thing.

Hanging out in the crowded State House cafeteria and sitting shoulder-to-shoulder in committee rooms may be a thing of the past for at least this year. Next year - who knows?

So some Vermont senators - including Democrats - are very concerned that the federal $600 weekly unemployment payment might be a disincentive for Vermonters to go back to work. Columnist John Walters sees that as more anti-poor people prejudice.

Time will tell if VT Digger’s John Walters is crying wolf, or whether he is a modern-day Cassandra. Either way, he’s putting the burden to stop a full-blown pandemic on Gov. Phil Scott.

A colorful political reporter let go from Seven Days last year has been hired to cover the Vermont State House by VT Digger, the state’s pre-eminent government policy news outlet.

Progressive watchdog journalist John Walters takes on the campaign platform of GOP lieutenant governor candidate Meg Hansen.