Dear Editor, In a few short weeks, at the end of June, absentee ballots will be available and Vermonters will begin casting their votes to determine party nominees for the fall elections. With so many candidates running, you may not […]
Category: Letter
Letter, Opinion
Prop. 5/Article 22 is far beyond the claims of Governor Scott
Dear Editor, On May 3, Gov. Phil Scott promised in a public statement, “The fundamental rights and liberties of all women will be defended, protected and preserved in Vermont”. Scott referenced Act 47 which codified women’s reproductive rights without government […]
Letter, Opinion
How ranked choice voting can save our elections
Dear Editor, The spoiler effect — a problem that we know all too well, yet too little about. Each time the presidential election comes around we are met with the inevitable frustration and disillusionment caused by our two-party system. Instead […]
Letter, Opinion
Why stop Covid reporting?
Dear Editor, I can’t understand why Vermont will stop updating its Covid dashboard. Everything Health Commissioner Mark Levine says about this sounds dangerous and contradictory. How can the absence of daily Covid reports when Covid is on the rise again […]
Letter, Opinion
Supreme Court balance requires additional justices
Dear Editor, When Donald Trump was in office, he and Mitch McConnell made three lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. McConnell went so far as to defy Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish — that the next president appoint her replacement […]
Letter, Opinion
I’m running for governor
Dear Editor, I am Peter Duval and I am a candidate for governor of Vermont. If you are concerned about climate, carbon offsetting and trading, food self-sufficiency, the cost of living, mass extinction, or the war in Ukraine then this […]
Letter, Opinion
Castleton University’s ‘Carmina Burana,’ delights
Dear Editor, If you missed the performance of “Carmina Burana,” you missed a unique musical treat. I took in the performance at the Casella Theater at Castleton University on April 30. This is one of my all-time favorite choral works […]
Letter, Opinion
Keep chemicals out of Lake Bomoseen
By Editor, In 1972, Richard Nixon signed into law, the Clean Water Act which gave the United States the lofty charge of making any navigable waters “fishable and swimmable” again, by 1983. It is in my opinion one of the […]
Letter, Opinion
Senators’ remarks are tone-deaf as fuel prices soar
Dear Editor, For the last 17 years, I have worked as a fuel and propane delivery driver serving the residents of Vermont. I am just one of the many drivers and employees in the home heat industry working to make […]