Great news on the front page of the BFP today.

Check it out - I rewrote the headline: Vermont Thrashes the Big Auto Lobby AND Captive Federal Regulators in a Court of Law.

Who says our little state can't nudge the world in the right direction?

Our homestead's chickens - as air-breathing and sentient beings - are ecstatic. As am I.

The bigger issue is - imagine if Vermont were it's own republic, we wouldn't have to jump through federal legal and regulatory hoops. We could decide, as the citizens of our sovereign republic, to debate questions of climate change, air quality, and transportation on their own merits.

What a world that might be..