community forum
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Community Forum: Diesel prices are pushing Vermont loggers to the brink
This week’s writer is Dana Doran, executive director of the Professional Logging Contractors of the Northeast. A logger in Vermont recently summed up the industry’s mood to our…
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Community Forum: Vt. heading toward the educational equivalent of a Big Box store
This week’s writer is Wendy Baker, superintendent of the Addison Central School District. Vermont’s public education is undergoing a rushed, top-down overhaul by the Agency of Education that…
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Community Forum: Real Vermonters embrace the whole package
Almost every week I see comments that challenge my right to call myself a “Vermonter.”
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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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Community Forum: What is America at 250?
A note on the celebration of 250 years of American independence
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Community Forum: Try something new, back publicly financed universal primary care
“It’s time to give up on the failed model of private insurance as the bedrock of our failing healthcare system.”
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Community Forum: Treatment of immigrants is unjust, un-American
“To detain anyone in these conditions for the years it might take to finish removal proceedings is brutal; to do so to people who have no criminal history,…
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Community Forum: I’m recalling a particular fishing trip
“We set off for our day of fishing. The intent is to replace each beer in the cooler with a trout.”
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Community Forum: Stand with Afghan Allies & Vermont’s future
“I felt a deep responsibility to a community that had risked so much in support of U.S. missions abroad.”
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Community Forum: Unchecked executive power leads to catastrophic consequences
“When we defend democracy, we are fighting not only for our personal freedoms but to prevent autocratic leaders from dragging us into bloody and unnecessary wars.”
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Community Forum: Libraries can help improve our health care
“Turning local libraries into telehealth hubs [can give] residents a familiar, trusted place to connect with health care providers.”
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Community Forum: Work no longer matters in this country
“The rich got richer. People went to work and didn’t get paid. Millions went hungry. And somehow, this has become normal.”
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Community Forum: Back-to-office demand will make state less efficient
“This unilateral directive will result in the upheaval of many employees’ established, proven workflows, cause chaos in their family lives and cost them precious time and money.”
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Community Forum: Do your part to ensure open meetings
“These meetings are still one of the best ways we have to engage with government, to express ourselves on timely political issues and to hold our representatives accountable.”
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Community Forum: Violence & Charlie Kirk
“Take a look in the mirror and resist the urge to say something crazy. Do the reading. Be informed. Listen and talk to people you might disagree with.”