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Community Forum: Why choose the inconspicuous?
On a blue-sky afternoon in July, my friend and I are perched on the bank of the Rhine River, dipping our feet into its strong current.
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Community Forum: A new building in an old town
Standing in the gazebo one day, looking out over the Middlebury town green, I realized that the view hasn’t changed in 100 years.
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Community Forum: Is the German education system truly superior?
Germans have mixed feelings about their secondary education system; it’s controversial. Yet, in the U.S. we idealize the German system.
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Community Forum: PMC makes budget commitment
On Aug. 30, Porter Medical Center, along with our two University of Vermont Health Network partner hospitals in Vermont, will present its 2025 budget to Vermont’s health care…
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Community Forum: Quantum engines
When I knock my knuckle on this table it feels solid. Yet, I know that it is almost completely empty spaces with tiny atoms and their electron clouds.
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Community Forum: MALT offers wealth of activities
As we approach our 40th anniversary, we are taking stock and creating our MALT Vision 2040. Of course, we will remain committed to our educational offerings as we…
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Community Forum: Taking on health care costs
The 2024 Legislative session started and finished the same way — with universal concern about significant looming educational tax increases.
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Community Forum: TAM leadership seeks public input
As the Middlebury Area Land Trust approaches its 40th anniversary, we are at an important moment. Over the past three decades, our organization has grown from a small…
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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: Bristol band is true ‘icon’ of park
It is inspiring to see the amount of interest recently shown for the bandstand on the park in Bristol. However, I am disappointed to hear of negative opinions…
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Community Forum: Scott isn’t offering solutions
It’s Groundhog Day. Gov. Scott vetoed the yield bill, again leaving Vermont school districts adrift. The reason: all the school budgets voters approved add up to more than…
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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: The new and ‘improved’ CLA
The current plan to reform the notorious CLA — common level of appraisal — looks a lot like Nixon’s blanket. It doesn’t actually change how things work, it…
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Community Forum: Vermont needs to update Act 250
Act 250, Vermont’s visionary development statute, is over 50 years old. It is often credited as one of the primary reasons that our landscape looks the way it…
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Community Forum: SVUUSD budget deserves support
Members of the school board have tried to gather information as to why this budget proposal, with an increase of less than one percent in spending per weighted…
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Community Forum: Government transparency is vital
Open government mattered to all of us during the height of the COVID pandemic.