By Ruth Farmer Editor’s note: Ruth Farmer is a published essayist and poet. She is sole owner of Farmer Writing and Editing ruthfarmer.com. A few weeks ago, I was in the midst of a busy fall semester — too many […]
Category: Opinion
Opinion
No public relief?
Dear Editor, Where is one expected to go and what is one supposed to do, particularly when there is no place located either centrally downtown or elsewhere within easy strolling distance, to go, most especially at night, on the weekend […]
Opinion
Proposed Affordable Heat Act contains hidden tax
Dear Editor, Vermont Senate bill S.5, the Affordable Heat Act, is an attempt to lower Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from heating buildings in Vermont. A laudable objective. However, the bill goes about this reduction in an extremely complicated and […]
Opinion
Turn off the gas, bring on the magnets
By Bill McKibben Editor’s note: Bill McKibben is an internationally known climate activist and writer who lives in Ripton. I have been arguing for some time now that we’ve reached the point in human history where we should stop setting […]
Opinion
OneCare Vt. is improving the quality of care and reducing costs
By Anya Rader Wallack Editor’s note: Anna Wallack is the chair of the OneCare Vermont board of managers. OneCare Vermont is improving the health of Vermonters and lowering the cost of health care. OneCare is an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). […]
Letter, Opinion
Traditional Medicare is under attack
Dear Editor, I’ve spent my professional life as a primary care pediatrician, mostly in Vermont. Now I’m retired and the beneficiary of Medicare. I see alarming signs that Medicare, a public good, is being privatized and abused by for-profit insurance […]
Opinion
Egg prices are not high enough
Dear Editor, Egg prices have tripled in some states in the past year, largely because of the slaughter of nearly 58 million birds sickened by bird flu. Yet, no price can possibly justify the cruelty inherent in egg production. When […]
Opinion
Covid showed us the value of public investment
By Jack Hoffman Editor’s note: Jack Hoffman is senior analyst at Public Assets Institute (www.publicassets.org), a non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Montpelier. He is a resident of Marshfield currently living in France. There were two threads running through Gov. Phil […]
Op - Ed, Opinion
One step… and another, toward equity
By Lise Sparrow Editor’s note: Rev. Dr. Lise Sparrow is the chair of religious affairs of the Windham County NAACP. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said, “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous […]
Op - Ed, Opinion
Free CCV tuition is key to building Vermont’s workforce
By Scott Giles and Joyce Judy Editor’s note: Scott Giles is the president and CEO of Vermont Student Assistance Corp; Joyce Judy is president of the Community College of Vermont. We’ve long known that the most promising jobs in Vermont […]