Nine percent of Vermont jobs are related to the restaurant and food industry, John Klar says. Laid-off workers may collect big state and federal bucks in the short-term, but what happens if their industry collapses in the meantime?

Desperate times call for local spending measures.

The St. Johnsbury Town Clerk can’t prove vote-by-mail fraud has happened or will happen. The problem is that there’s virtually no oversight. There’s just no way to know.

With the lone Republican dissenting, a Senate committee decided to push a bill overriding Gov. Scott’s ability to say ‘no’ to voting by mail.

The poor and the elderly are the most likely to be victimized by abuse of the mail-in vote system. Our secretary of state pooh-poohs the possibility. But that’s what happened in North Carolina.

The Vermont State Police want Vermonters to inform on their neighbors for State of Emergency infractions. Todd Smith, publisher of the Caledonian-Record, thinks that’s a terrible idea. 

Vermont State Government is now in the stay-at-home enforcement business. How far will it go?

In episode 19 of “Travels with Charlie,” host Charlie Papillo interviews Erin Sigrist of the Vermont Retail and Grocers’ Association and House Commerce Committee Chair Mike Marcotte about the food and TP supply chain problems.

Ever since Pres. Donald Trump ordered gun stores open for the duration of the outbreak, Parro’s in Waterbury has been doing brisk business.

St. Johnsbury attorney Deb Bucknam has some good ideas about how you can help your neighbors, yourself, and the very future of your community by supporting local businesses in their time of need.