Editorial: Of color, fun & bike rides

Cheers to Middlebury’s Department of Public Works for surprising the community with colorful crosswalks painted throughout the night, plus colorful concrete sidewalks on the downtown section of Washington Street. The work not only spruces up the downtown for the summer season but highlights the crosswalks for pedestrians.

Even some Republicans, who rushed it through the House by a single vote, are regretting they voted for it. Rep. Majorie Taylor Green, R-Georgia, one of the staunchest supporters of Trump and his MAGA policies, said she regrets casting her vote for the bil … (read more)

Two weeks ago, after a two-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump exclaimed that he’d had a wonderful chat with his good friend, Vladimir, and that he was confident Russia’s war against Ukraine would be winding down soon.

Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Baruth’s decision Tuesday night to pull the school reform bill, H.454, from a scheduled Wednesday floor vote speaks volumes about a bill that is largely seen as a lose-lose proposition for schools, students and parents, w … (read more)

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 eno … (read more)

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)

The headlines of the past week tell the story.

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.

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)

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.