Dear Editor, Voting by mail should replace voting at the polls in its entirety. The two institutions that can definitely be trusted is the County Board of Elections and the United States Postal Service. The money saved by eliminating the […]
Category: Letter
Letter, Opinion
Vote for Stephanie Jerome
Dear Editor, I am encouraging my fellow voters in Brandon, Sudbury and Pittsford to cast one of their two votes for State Representative for Stephanie Jerome when you submit your November ballot. Stephanie Jerome has been a quick study during […]
Letter, Opinion
Open letter to Legislators from the Vermont Food Security Coalition
Dear Legislators: Thank you for investing federal Coronavirus relief funds to support people in Vermont struggling to put food on the table. We appreciate those investments made during the summer legislative session, and want you to know they have been […]
Letter, Opinion
Karr Group maintains high safety standards for employees
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to an email sent this afternoon, questioning the risk of Covid-19 exposure that a member our staff might be posing to our community. I am the General Manager of The Karr Group, and […]
Letter, Opinion
The Global Warming “Solutions” Act is bad climate policy—Governor, please veto it
Dear Editor, The Vermont Legislature is about to give its final approval to a bill called “The Global Warming Solutions Act.” Needless to say, the bill, H.688, does not solve global warming. In fact, the bill is downright bad climate […]
Letter, Opinion
Act 250 modernization bill strikes a good balance
Dear Editor, In 1970, when Governor Deane Davis signed Act 250 into law, he advanced a vision shared by Vermonters who wanted to protect Vermont’s unique cultural and historic ties to the land by addressing the environmental impacts of development, […]
Letter, Opinion
Legislature: don’t rush to amend Act 250
Dear Editor, One of the brilliant features of the original Act 250 lets the public have a real voice in the proceedings of an Act 250 permit application. No other state or local permit proceeding allows such meaningful participation. The […]
Letter, Opinion
Optimism for a resilient Vermont
Dear Editor, I am optimistic about our future. We are experiencing two societal traumas, one new and one as old as our history, which will either make us stronger or pull us further apart. I choose to engage with the […]
Letter, Opinion
Defining ‘Vermont Strong’
Dear Editor, I’d like to tell a story that I’ve never told in print before. I’ve written hundreds of policy-oriented pieces for local and national newspapers, but I’ve never told this story because it’s very personal. I’m telling it now […]
Letter, Opinion
Support cultured meat alternative
Dear Editor, Readers who care about animal welfare should ask U.S. Senators Pat Leahy and Bernie Sanders to support federal funding for cultured-meat research. Cultured meat is grown from cells, without slaughtering nonhumans. It has the potential to eliminate unimaginable […]