community forum
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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.”