Community forum: Tech can help end two-party era

Most of us do not need to be convinced that the two party system is incapable of solving our challenges. The mutual disgust with how ineffective and corrupt this system is happens to be one of the few remaining areas of agreement between the left and right.

Based on a UVM study, the Vermont legislature is updating the education funding formula so districts that serve more disadvantaged students have the ability to raise the revenues they need to care for their children.

Voucher proponents claim the bill will advance anti-discrimination, encourage compliance with state and federal Constitutions, and prevent future litigation. The more likely result would be the abolition of the Vermont school voucher scheme. 

If meeting the demands of the climate crisis were just a matter of making numbers work out on a spreadsheet, Vermont would be in great shape.

The current legislative semester is crucial in Vermont’s effort to address the climate crisis.

With Vermont schools stressed by COVID, you might expect pandemic recovery to be the only issue on the minds of those working in education.

What we do next is essential to the health of Vermont’s economy, the success of Vermont students, and the vitality of our brave little state.

Racism punched Vermonters hard in the face with the shotgun attack by three white night-riders on the home of a Black minister in Irasburg in the early hours of July 19, 1968.

With the highest sustained rates of COVID in Addison County since the start of the pandemic, we are increasingly facing the unnerving reality of running out of room in hospitals and Intensive Care Units across the state.

The overriding mission of the school board since the onset of the pandemic has been to keep our kids safe and to keep them in school.

It’s been 101 years since the armistice was signed that ended the First World War. That war was so horrific that it was viewed as the war to end all wars. People wanted peace.

This past summer, the Climate Economy Action Center of Addison County (CEAC) completed over 40 interviews with diverse community members.

That one incident is merely a culminating example of policy and communication issues and utter ineptness that have plagued our district for several years.

The possibility of cancer didn’t occur to me. I’d never had a “bad” mammogram. How could I be so sanguine?

We recently marked the end of our community’s largest infrastructure project and the single biggest change of character to our downtown since the town burned in 1891.