I agree but if drivers are coming from one trucking company I think that should be looked into as well.

Does $2,000 seem like a low fine to Google et al. to anybody else?

Doesn’t need to be in the millions, but I also think Google might make $2,000 every few seconds. That’s not even speaking of if they’d ever pay it given their legal teams.

To get to the point, because of how warm December and January were it is likely that no where on the lake got thick enough to safely walk on on warm days like this. Even when it was very cold these past few weeks I wasn’t even seeing ice where I am.

On the flip side, if your supply of housing is so low that out-of-state skilled professionals like Doctors and engineers can’t find or afford housing, then that likely means that building housing probably should come first.

I understand your point but I know of nurses, doctors, social workers, and educators who want to move here or have left because they simply can not find housing here. Housing is the most critical issue for Vt right now as we can’t even get the people who could help with other issues. If we do increase subsidies now, a large chunk will just be going to those professionals’ ever-increasing cost of living with real change being minimal.

If the housing issue had been seriously addressed at all in the last 5 years, I’d definitely agree with you. However, whenever articles like this come out nothing meaningful actually happens and the can is kicked further down the road until housing becomes an even bigger issue.