Bill Schubart
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Community Forum: Reverse-engineering the ideal criminal justice system
“The goal of an ideal criminal justice system is to create a society and economy in which citizens have no motivation to offend.”
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Community Forum: Is wealth addiction a failure of government or neuroscience?
This week’s writer is Bill Schubart, a commentator in Hinesburg.
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Vermont’s sacred cow: regenerative small farms or toxic mega-dairies?
“We will need to address the fact that healthy, environmentally sound agricultural crops and livestock cost more to produce and thus will cost more to buy.”
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Guest editorial: Democrats and regaining leadership
In his political column this week, Vermont writer Bill Schubart surmises why Democrats are struggling to regain power nationally, and what to do about it. “A Democratic Party…
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Community Forum: Real leaders bridge differences
Governor Phil Scott pulled off a trifecta win in the latest election. The “most popular” governor in the country, a non-MAGA, conservative Republican in a liberal state, was…
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Community Forum: Health care, a way home
To envision and create effective change in our health care system, we must be honest with ourselves about the challenges and opportunities that deter or impel strategic change.
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Community Forum: Eyeing the Ghost Quartet: Part I
If we zoom out and look with cynicism at the health care crisis in America, we see a remarkably effective business plan: Grow the burgeoning health care business…
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Community Forum: Can we get our legislative act together?
Vermonters seem to have a natural wariness of government. Vermont’s Republican Century had just ended 16 years earlier with the surprise election of Democratic Gov. Phil Hoff in…
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Community forum: Hospital boards advancing wrong priorities
I have grave ethical concerns about the behavior, governance, and board leadership at the UVM Health Network and its network of Vermont hospitals (Porter, Central VT, and UVM…
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Guest editorial: Critique of Critical Race Theory not based in fact
Like science, history is an ever-emerging narrative based on curiosity, exploration, discovery, debate and interpretation. But like science (and journalism), it must be informed by fact.The recent screed…