Editorial: Vermont's town meetings, school votes pose sharp contrast to national scene

Posted on March 3, 2011 |

• Editorial

By Angelo S. Lynn

Vermonters are fortunate today to live in a state where civic-minded progress overshadows the need by some to blame all things government for the recession and tepid economic recovery.

In states like Wisconsin, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and much of the deep South, taxpayers are taking their frustrations out on the budgets they can control — schools and towns — and selling the future of the younger generation down the drain.

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