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Community forum: ACSD must confront racism
I share my story for those who feel invisible, who can’t speak because it could jeopardize their jobs, for those whose BIPOC children are struggling and they have…
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Community forum: Building a case for linguistic justice
Because the standard way of speaking English happens to be the way many white, educated, powerful people speak English, speakers who don’t lay claim to those identities or…
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Community forum: Porter budget aims to improve patient care
This week Porter Medical Center, along with our two Vermont partner hospitals in the University of Vermont Health Network, presents our fiscal year 2024 budget to Vermont’s health care regulator,…
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Community Forum: Heyer presented truth with love
Walt Heyer, de-transitioner and international speaker on the risks and complications of so-called “gender-affirming care,” presented truth with love at Vergennes Union High School last week that pierced…
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Community forum: The bargain Vermont needs
We are optimists at our core: across Vermont, we see plenty of reasons to believe that progress is possible.
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Community forum: AG’s decision ‘dangerous, chilling’
The recent decision by Attorney General Charity Clark to charge two Vermont State troopers with simple assault and reckless endangerment is bad judgement.
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Community forum: EMS providers always ready
In 1974, President Gerald Ford authorized National EMS Week to celebrate Emergency Medical Services practitioners and the important work they do in our nation’s communities.
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Community Forum: A New England dream home should be sustainable
Embodying the New England dream entails not only appreciating the region’s natural beauty, history and culture, but also actively engaging in the community and building a sustainable home.
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Community Forum: Growing old can be a joyful wisdom
When I was 70, I felt as though my life was beginning. At 80, I began to sense that there are limits. But now, at 91, I know…
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Community forum: Energy strategy change needed
I’ve spent a lot of money for my small contribution to address climate change. But, can you afford to?
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Community forum: Careful logging actually a boon
As one of the owners of a lumber mill in Bristol, I certainly have an interest in the harvest and the overall principles at stake. I also have…
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Community forum: Affordable Heat Act: How it works
As a physics teacher, I used to give an assignment that asked students to do an informal energy assessment of their own homes using resources from Efficiency Vermont.
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Community forum: Green energy a winning strategy
It’s 2023 and the question is no longer “is climate change here” but “what is Vermont going to do to stop it?”
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Community forum: Veterans deserve respect, support
The service of America’s veterans never truly ends. Even when they hang up their military uniforms for the last time, many still choose to protect us.
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Community forum: Equity demands that we defeat the merger
If we are serious about equity — providing all children what they need to develop to their full academic potential — we need to defeat the proposed merger…
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Community forum: Cold War kept nations in check
The world today would almost certainly be far better off if it were playing by the rules that governed the Cold War.