Guest editorial: Will ‘density’ become a dirty word in Vermont?

When does a former town moderator, after decades of public service, jump out of retirement to join his town’s Planning Commission? 

We are in the midst of a war on education. Not against all learning, but certainly against any lessons about racial injustice.

I have often thought that humans have an innate desire for communion and communication with other creatures.

When I was young, over 70 years ago, everyone knew that turning down the heat at night made sleeping more comfortable. And it used less fuel.

Another Town Meeting Day has come and gone, accompanied by not only praise for a tradition handed down over multiple generations, but also questions about the viability and future of an institution which some would say has outlived its usefulness.

I am writing to convey my sincere distress over the proposed logging at Telephone Gap.

Aristotle recognized three broad types of interests and things: common, private, and public. We are at a time when we need to remind ourselves of what he said and why it was important.

In reading the back-and-forth comments about the Affordable Heat Act, S.5, I hear the frustrations of many voices.

As a Vermont state legislator, one of the most satisfying parts of the job is to craft legislation that solves a problem for a particular group of constituents. 

What is the carbon footprint of human defecation? This oddball question comes to me as I continue this journey of exploring what I as an individual and what we as a community can do to combat the climate crisis.

As one of the owners of a lumber mill in Bristol, I certainly have an interest in the harvest and the overall principles at stake. I also have a daughter, for whom I care deeply, and wish for her future a livable world.

Our neighbors’ challenges can be invisible. Like the folks who show up at Have-a-Heart Food Shelf each month.

Several years ago, I started making birthday cakes for my grandson and his baby sister. Soon Mark joined in, and things escalated.

I always enjoy town meeting, but last Monday night at Ripton was truly special.

One would assume that taxpayer dollars which are diverted to independent or private schools through the town tuition program would be administered and monitored as those dollars that go directly to public schools — but that has not always been the case.