Dear Editor, Editor’s note: This letter was directed to the members of the Slate Valley Unified Union School District, which includes Orwell, and shared with the press. I am writing to thank you for your service. I want to thank […]
Category: Letter
Letter, Opinion
Impeachment can be a lesson to youth
Dear Editor, When I was listening to the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, something just crossed my mind: I hope that every American university, college and high school student in the United States had an assembly in the auditorium to […]
Letter, Opinion
America is lost, ‘God Trump’ has corralled enough puppets
Dear Editor, On Thursday, Feb. 6, James Hall had a letter in the Rutland Herald discussing Nancy Pelosi’s childish, provocative comments about Trump’s Tuesday night campaign speech. Hall further indicates that the Democratic Party under her is withering away. Hall […]
Letter, Opinion
Health care is broken, fly to Mexico
Dear Editor, I was still trying to get used to the idea that some Americans are going to jail because they don’t show up in court when hospitals sue them for unpaid medical bills when I came across other news […]
Letter, Opinion
Honor loved ones by giving blood
Dear Editor, Did you know that patients fighting cancer need more blood than patients fighting any other disease? Cancer patients use nearly one-quarter of the nation’s blood supply. In fact, five units of blood are needed every minute to help […]
Letter, Opinion
School funding model needs revision
Dear Editor, The Vermont Rural Education Collaborative includes 44 schools from Canaan in the Northeast East Kingdom to Bradford in the Connecticut River Valley. Our school-communities have some of the highest poverty levels and include the most sparsely populated areas […]
Letter, Opinion
All employees deserve paid leave
Dear Editor, We are women business owners who serve in the Legislature and we believe more Vermonters should have access to paid family leave in their time of need. Paid family leave should not be limited to people who work […]
Letter, Opinion
“Newly”wed Game scores for food shelves, community
Dear Editor, “I had my doubts when you invited us, but that was incredible,” a friend from Burlington said minutes after watching Rutland’s “Newly”wed Game, which benefited the Rutland Community Cupboard, BROC’s Community Food Shelf, and the Salvation Army. The […]
Letter, Opinion
Climate change isn’t the real crisis
Dear Editor, Windsor County Sen. Dick McCormack (D-Bethel) recently opined about the climate crisis and how government must implement “a worthy and non-negotiable response” to this crisis. What is this “worthy and non-negotiable” response? In the summer of 2018, the […]
Letter, Opinion
Fakers and takers
Dear Editor, Republicans have long pushed the idea that lots of people on social security disability are “fakers and takers” who don’t deserve those benefits. That push intensified when the number of social security recipients increased significantly after the financial […]