As someone who grew up in said small vermont town, with family members on said select boards, i see your point.

However the corruption still exists. You can find it right in the town report if you do a little research on some of the local family trees.

Did you bring enough for everyone?

As long as you brought enough for everybody else.

As a Floridian, this has to be a joke. Governor DeSantis has basically turned out state government into an ideology cult.

His anti-CRT laws are so ridiculous even universities are struggling to find ways to teach basic historical facts, like slavery and the Holocaust. He was so angry that Disney decided to halt their donations to him and other conservatives over backlash from the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, that he came up with a ludicrous redistricting bill that now has taxpayers footing the bill for Disney’s land formally called the Reedy Creek Improvement District.

One of our senators and our former governor, Rick Scott, literally defrauded our state’s Medicare.

I do a lot of fishing and hunting in VT. I've got a YouTube channel "Fishermanthebest"

Lack of ice!

That is probably the one thing I miss about going deer/turkey hunting with my dad. Going out so early that its still dark and you need a flashlight to see, and sitting in the blind hearing the world wake up around you.

The number of posts in this subreddit with a 'score' of 0, and with a ton of comments, baffles me. Is that due to the low # of posts here, or low moderation?

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Maxim had words?

Not enough people are asking the right questions here.

What kind of school project could ever possibly require you to eat maple baked beans on public transportation? Why specifically maple baked? Why beans at all?

These are the questions we need answers to. Please elaborate in excruciating detail OP.

Of course. As long as you're not hurting anyone, you do you.

Also; sharing is caring.

Also from NJ originally, and have found that lakers are my favorite species to catch up here by far! I love how they fight, and the challenge of figuring out what lures that will be effective for catching them.

While I don't believe VT is remotely perfect in this realm, I think the other thing to consider, given that vt and Wyoming are the top, is that the per capita measures always skew data when it comes to things like this. Places with low population density have higher per capita representation. There is the same amount of government officials per town, but if the town has 1/5th the people, well 2 corrupt officials equates to a 5x higher per capita corruption number. It is a misapprorpriation of data and stats done by poor scientists, or worse, untrained reporters who don't actually understand statistical science and therefore shouldn't utilize it. Per capita of the total population when looking at a discrete subpopulation (government workers) does not equalize the numbers, they are not intrinsically related because, well, the number of government officials in a given area is completely arbitrarily defined by people, and therefore not predictable by basic statistics.

So I don't think this article actually says anything, because states with high pop density (NY, CA) appear low corruption for the same reason. It is an uncontrolled bias in the data manipulation.

• a data & information scientist

You'd think racist assholes would at least know how to correctly spell the name of the group they intend to discriminate against. Or maybe they just don't like Muslin fabric AND they're dumbasses who can't spell.

To correct the record, the Development Review Board turned down his application for a not-so-small shop that was going to do a heck of a lot more than repairs, including having semis blocking the 2 lane and steep Rt 128 to drop off spools full of metal wiring for recycling. He was not up front or honest about all of the uses when he filed his application.

His application and appeals were turned down by the whole board, not one dude who didn't want to compete. If he had proposed his business for a different site like the growth centers of the town with better utilities and roads, he probably would have been approved. Decisions like that can't be vetoed.

Lastly, he had to be removed from the DRB meetings for threatening the board members when he didn't get his way, like a child.

There was no corruption involved with Mr. Pelkey, he's just a jerk.

(Note: I'm not a member of the DRB board, but witnessed this asshole's threats to the board and chair while I was waiting for my own project to be reviewed.)

I come from Texas and Louisiana, and if Vermont is more corrupt than those places, then more corruption please.

I forgot all those dairy farms and sugar shacks were fronts for the mafia...thats how they get you

Also the corrupt parking garage construction under the UVM Medical building had someone going to jail

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I'm not here to kink shame OP's fetish for maple baked beans on a bus. I think it's repulsive, i mean, who eats cooked beans in any scenario, but I'm not gonna yuk their yum.

As someone who grew up in Illinois, I don’t trust this list as far as I can throw it.

I'd rather read Maxim's take on corruption

I will too, when there is more than 4 inches of ice. Maybe in the next few days but this year has been rough so far. Where do you go in washington county?

Remember the middle finger statue a few years ago because the guy on the zoning board vetoed his small repair shop because he was a competitor. That kinda of stuff can happen in a small state.