Editorial: People power & Act 181

As details come into focus, public pressure is shaping the path forward.

Angelo Lynn is named an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.

President Trump’s mental decline has become a national concern.

After 10 years of Scott’s rule as governor, the state is worse off on the major issues: health care, education, affordable housing, job growth, youth flight.

Trump supporters must stop rationalizing his outrageous conduct as a wily negotiating tactic.

Until American citizens prevail with measures to hold ICE agents accountable for any use of excessive force, we all must deal with what the nation now considers a renegade militia that doesn’t care about the harm it does.

It’s hard not to be outraged by law enforcement’s needless and brutal tactics in the March 11 confrontation in South Burlington when ICE officials pursued a Mexican immigrant who they thought was in Vermont illegally. While temperance held throughout much … (read more)

Vermont is one of 10 states recently targeted by a GOP-controlled U.S. House Committee that allegedly aims to eradicate fraud in the state’s Medicaid program. It’s mostly bogus.

Residents of Addison County’s largest and smallest school districts approved their fiscal year 2027 public education budgets on Tuesday. But two school budgets on the southern end of the country did not pass.

Trump’s haphazard policy of chaos works for some MAGA supporters who have accepted his role as supreme leader. For everyone else, there’s reality.

In Tuesday voting, Leicester residents approved the town budget 132-35. The $830,200 spending plan represents an increase of just less than $5,000, or 1%, from the current fiscal year.

“Americans who prefer a fact-based reality supported by a law-based society view the president’s speech and actions as debasing America’s core values.”

“Jackson often spoke of the power of unity and of bringing the American people together to overcome the nation’s biggest problems.”

“[A local option tax] can help Bristol residents afford improvements to the town that property taxes alone can’t accommodate.”

Recent changes by the U.S. Postal Service means that from now on most mail — including your local newspaper — will be delayed by up to a full day, according to local postal officials.