Author: John S. Walters

I don’t know about you, but I’m still living in the afterglow of the most positive non-presidential election I’ve experienced since 1974. I was certainly […]

For those just joining us, this is the image I got when I asked an AI image generator for “Polling Place.” The Age of the […]

10:34 p.m. Sorry, I took a break to check out the national returns. And not much changed in the meantime; the trends that have been […]

Hey everybody, meet Stephanie Mack, Republican candidate for Vermont House in the Chittenden-24 district. She ran against incumbent Democrat Alyssa Black and lost by more […]

There are two very different interpretations of Amanda Janoo’s candidacy for governor. It was one of the most brilliant surprises in the recent history of […]

And no, it’s not janitor at the stinky, crowded, dangerous women’s prison. Nor is it rescue designer for the Bennington Battle Monument. Nor is it […]

The blue wave crashed over every Republican breakwall just about everywhere. Nationally, the Democrats are on track to win lopsided majorities in both houses of […]

As I’ve been driving around central Vermont lately, I’ve come across a phenomenon: Homemade signs for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amanda Janoo. Most of them are […]

An actual apology — one that fulfills the definition of the word — is a rare and precious thing. People who make public apologies, especially […]

Well, the last pre-election campaign finance deadline has come and gone, and the big news is that the unknown underdog newbie pick-your-own-disparaging-descriptor Amanda Janoo has […]

Gov. Phil Scott’s office has announced an energy partnership with Nova Scotia that could lead to Vermont getting a lot of its electricity from offshore […]

Another precinct has been heard from. The national NKOTB doing business as State Navigate has come out with its final pre-election poll on Vermont’s top […]

The Phil Scott campaign has posted a 10-minute hagiography video featuring a variety of Vermonters praising the governor’s “Experience. Integrity. Character.” (That’s the title of […]

Big ups to WPTZ-TV for designing the most uncomfortable debate setting I’ve ever seen. I believe this image, seen very briefly just after the mid-show […]

Well, it just got late early out there. For one thing, city and town clerk’s offices are being flooded by early ballots. For another, candidates […]

Gov. Phil Scott’s whingeing about VPIRG attack ads seems even more petty now that the Republican Governors Association has dumped another $550,000 into its local […]

We have a new front-runner for weirdest press release of the year in the usually buttoned-up world of Vermont politics. It comes from Christopher Helali, […]

Well, it just got late early out there. For one thing, city and town clerk’s offices are being flooded by early ballots. For another, candidates […]

If the Soviet Union was, in the words of WInston Churchill, “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” then the re-election campaign of […]

Another campaign finance deadline has come and gone, and the big news is… there’s not much news. Well, not much new news, anyway. For the […]