National standardized test scores drop By William J. Mathis The latest round of flagellation of dead horse flesh has been provoked by the release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores. After 20 years of overall progress, many […]
Category: Op – Ed
Op - Ed, Opinion
Hunting dogs: Finding a solution won’t be easy
By Angelo Lynn The story of two hikers and their small dog being attacked by a pack of hunting hound dogs while hiking in the Green Mountain National Forest near the Goshen-Ripton border is as shocking as it is frightening. […]
Op - Ed, Opinion
Money alone won’t solve Vermont’s child care problem
By Rebecca Holcombe Vermont now spends tens of millions more dollars on child care and prekindergarten markets than it did only three or four years ago. Yet, a Joint Fiscal Office study recently found Vermont now has about 1,693 fewer […]
Op - Ed
Bernie’s revolution: Is the magic there a second time?
By Angelo Lynn Sen. Bernie Sanders launched his second run for president this past Tuesday with an appeal to continue the revolution he started in 2016 when he had the audacity to challenge the presumed Democratic designee Hillary Clinton. He […]
Op - Ed
New jobs, new markets require new leadership
By Emerson Lynn What passes for economic development in Vermont is largely ineffective and not suited for the 21st century, according to Peter Stromgren and Bill Schubart who co-wrote a recent op-ed that was widely circulated. They are correct in […]
Op - Ed
‘ A, my name is Alice ’
By Lawrence Zupan “A, my name is Alice, and I come from Arlington, Vermont, and we sell… abortions.” The above variation on the children’s innocent alphabetical song game might well become reality if a bill currently under consideration by the […]
Op - Ed
Coyote policies lead to ‘ reckless killing ’
By Vermont Humane Federation On Christmas Day a Pittsford family dog was shot and killed by a man when he mistook the dog for a coyote. The man claims that he thought the coyote was chasing a deer. Neither party […]
Op - Ed
Understanding Trump is to know why Dems can’t cave
By Angelo Lynn What happens when Democrats and Americans begin to confront Trump? When they call his bluff and simply say, “This will hurt you more than it will hurt us.” Democrats were at that point with the government shutdown […]
Op - Ed
Electric vehicles save in the long run
By Ross Sneyd As with most adages, there’s truth to the one we hear a lot. Vermont can be an expensive place to live. After we pay the rent or mortgage, taxes, health care, transportation and heating, there’s often not […]
Op - Ed
Women lose opportunity under school mergers
By Pamela Frasher As a record number of female members of Congress are sworn in this month in Washington, D.C., things are different in Vermont. Here, top state officials are removing elected officials from local office, and the removals disproportionately […]