Editorial: Must H.454 be medicine that’s too awful to swallow?

This Thursday, May 15, the Senate Finance Committee is expected to give H.454, the legislature’s revised school funding bill, a final review, and send it to conference committee. House and Senate members will confer, finetune and are expected to reach enough of a consensus to send a bill to Gov. Scott.

Editorial: Standing up for free speech, individual rights

As Paramount Global Chair Shari Redstone ponders whether to sign a devil’s pact with President Trump over his bogus lawsuit against CBS News, it’s clearer than ever that large corporations that don’t have solid journalistic principles are not worthy owner … (read more)

Editorial: Trump’s 100 days of decline

The headlines of the past week tell the story.

Editorial: Migrant workers’ arrest should shock Vt. dairy farmers

When federal agents descended on a dairy farm in Franklin County this Monday, they arrested eight migrant workers. Vermont farms employs about 850 year-round migrant farmworkers — all crucial to the state’s dairy industry.

Editorial: Trump sells out Ukraine, a travesty of U.S. policy

In one of the weakest and most embarrassing displays of American capitulation, the Trump administration caved to Russia’s demands on all fronts. Moreover, Trump admitted to that America was no longer willing to help defend free nations against the aggress … (read more)

Editorial: Gov. Scott finally objects to Trump’s illegal tactics

This week, Phil Scott finally sided with a majority of Americans when he expressed caution (not outrage, but at least caution) that the president was straying into dangerous waters by revoking citizenship rights without due process.

Editorial: Calm, not chaos, needed when changing Vt’s education system

As Vermont tackles education reform, two visions have emerged: a radical consolidation of the current 52 school districts to 5 large regional districts as proposed by Gov. Scott and Education Secretary Zoie Sanders, or a more cautious step-by-step process … (read more)

Editorial: Trump’s credibility is toast

On Tuesday this week, the U.S. president said he would never bend from his tariff strategy. “Don’t be weak. Don’t be stupid,” he told his lemming-like faithful on Truth Social. “Instead be strong, courageous and patient,” adding he would never back down.

Editorial: Chilling arrests target everyone’s free speech

Expressing an opinion more than a year ago in a student newspaper. That was all it took for the Trump administration to lock up a student who had the full rights to be in this country seeking a graduate degree at a prestigious American university.

Editorial: Of awards and the common good

A perennial winner of NENPA’s annual better newspaper content, this year represents the most awards the paper has won in any single year — and we were the most honored newspaper of the 96 which entered this year’s competition.

Editorial: Upset about Trump cutting crucial services? Speak up!

Because if you don’t speak out now, this Republican-led Congress will believe Americans don’t care about the damage Trump is doing to the country and is, in fact, on the right track.

Editorial: Scott should rebuke Trump

If Gov. Phil Scott is serious about saving money in the state budget, rather than denying a few hundred people shelter for a month or two he’d better start challenging President Trump’s self-serving executive orders.

Editorial: Scott’s ‘affordability’ is not solving problems affordably

Before Vermonters label Gov. Scott heartless for denying “children, pregnant women, disabled Vermonters, veterans, and those fleeing domestic violence” from the motel voucher program set to expire on April 1, voters should consider the Governor’s position … (read more)

Editorial: Forgive the Fox News viewer

Forgive the poor Fox News viewer for having a dim view of Democrats. If that’s where you get your news, how could you not?

Editorial: Americans must find their voice to halt this train wreck

It’s difficult to grasp how much change Trump has wreaked on America in these past couple of weeks. Even for Americans who read the news carefully, so much happens so quickly that the far-too-common reaction by voters is to tune out the political noise an … (read more)

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