Dear Editor, Now that we are retroactively able to change our gender identity on Vermont birth certificates the next logical step is to allow change of our ethnic identity as well. Sen. Elizabeth Warren can be Native American, all the […]
Category: Letter
Letter, Opinion
How I drove 1,000 miles with an electric car
Dear Editor, Recently we took a 1,000-mile round trip to Washington, D.C. in our Chevy BOLT EV. Still, on the cold side, the BOLT that can get up to 300 miles in summer is averaging about 200 miles in this […]
Letter, Opinion
Where have all the spring waterfowl gone?
Dear Editor, Where are all the geese? Where is all the honking and splashing on Otter Creek, the signs of spring that usually come as a relief from the existential dread of yet another winter with temperatures too warm, mud […]
Letter, Opinion
Be careful near the train tracks
Dear Editor, We are so excited to have passenger rail service between Burlington and New York, but people need to beware of the new faster trains and recognize their danger. Please remind your readers over and over, and readers, tell […]
Letter, Opinion
Bodily integrity and Prop. 5
Dear Editor, Proposition 5 is framing abortion as the exercise of reproductive freedoms and rights, but is the absurdity here not giving you pause? The legislative majority has declared through Prop. 5, that this constitutional amendment is needed because Vermonters’ […]
Letter, Opinion
Letter has no basis in fact
Dear Editor, In response to George de Luna’s letter in the Mountain Times on April 20, I want to thank you for providing the critical information he conveyed in his letter and which your readers yearn so desperately for your […]
Letter, Opinion
Letter about Trump lacks facts
Dear Editor, Sen. Moynihan said, “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” Mr. de Luna thinks that his opinions are facts in an opinion piece published in the Mountain Times on April […]
Letter, Opinion
‘Cow’ documentary shows unethical realities of food production on a Vermont farm
Dear Editor, Despite dwindling numbers of dairy farms,Vermont continues to be the largest dairy producer in New England and dairy is the most profitable sector of the state’s agricultural economy. Tourists flock to Vermont to savor its bucolic splendor and […]
Letter, Opinion
Can you help Kevin find a kidney?
Dear Editor, At first glimpse at Kevin Morgan you’d never know he is living with kidney disease, but he has been living on kidney dialysis for the past three years and was diagnosed with IGA Neuropathy (also known as Berger’s […]
Letter, Opinion
Hospital execs have big pay
Dear Editor, The Green Mountain Care Board publishes an annual list of Vermont hospital employees whose annual compensation tops $500,000. The list for 2020 shows a total of 59 hospital execs making more than half a million dollars a year. […]