Dear Editor, Today we have political Reds and political Blues. One party is out for blood—you can guess which one—and the other is not. We think that the ones out for blood will lose because they are in the minority. […]
Category: Opinion
Letter, Opinion
3 things parents don’t want to miss for next school year
Dear Editor, Yes, it’s January, not June, and you may feel like you’re finally settling into a routine during a challenging school year. But as the saying goes, “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” Despite the disruptions of […]
Letter, Opinion
An assault on the American way of life
Dear Editor, The events of Jan. 6, 2021 in the nation’s capitol represent the culmination of a widespread revolutionary assault on the American way of life. The assault has been directed at all three branches of government: the executive branches […]
Commentary, Opinion
Bold actions needed to restructure Vermont State Colleges
By Bob Allen, former president of Green Mountain College, Poultney The Select Committee and the Vermont Legislature have a difficult task ahead. Covid-19 exacerbated and accelerated a problem that has existed in higher education for at least a decade or […]
Commentary, Opinion
Pathological politics
By John Steen Editor’s note: John Steen is a retired scholar and teacher of philosophy, followed by a 20-year career in health care planning, health regulation and public health, ending as a professor of health policy and a private consultant. He […]
Commentary, Opinion
Covid recovery and renewal – building a proposition for the future of Vermont
By Paul Costello As we come out of the crucible of the pandemic and look to a new year, we need more than recovery, we need to work together to advance renewal and resilience for our communities and economy. The […]
Commentary, Opinion
The chilling assault on our constitutional republic
By U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Jan. 6, 2021, will forever mark a day of infamy for our nation. It will be remembered because our beloved Capitol building — the very heart of our democracy — was stormed and laid […]
Opinion
Capitol Quotes: On the siege at the US Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021
“This is not dissent. It’s disorder. It’s chaos. It borders on sedition and it must end now,” said President-elect Joe Biden. “Today’s violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. […]
Letter, Opinion
Trump and fascists attempt coup in DC, unions need to fight!
Dear Editor, On Jan. 6, 2021, thousands of neo-fascist Trump loyalists converged on Washington with the aim of forcing the annulment of the November election (which Democrat Joe Biden won by 7 million votes). There they were met by Donald […]
Letter, Opinion
Social media companies impinge on human rights
Dear Editor, The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights consists of 30 rights and freedoms that belong to every human being. In 1948, after the horror of World War II and the nearly 17 million people exterminated by the National […]