Community forum: Lawmakers crafting climate policy

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.

This week’s writer is Tom Little, chair of the Legislative Apportionment Board.The 2020 Census numbers for Vermont indicate that our little state grew by about 20,000 people over the past decade, or +2.8%. We also know that within Vermont our overall popu … (read more)

This week’s writer is Peter Burrows, D.Ed., superintendent of the Addison Central School District, which serves Middlebury and six surrounding towns. When we voted in our seven towns to become a single educational community in March of 2016, we did so wit … (read more)

What, isn’t Vermont “Green”? Of course it is, right? Wrong. Green Mountain Power, which is owned by a Canadian natural gas distributor and supplies 70% of Vermont with electricity, claims that their energy supply is 94% carbon free and more than 63% renew … (read more)

The American Academy of Pediatrics Vermont Chapter, Vermont Academy of Family Physicians and Vermont Medical Society join Governor Scott and the Vermont Department of Health in calling on Vermonters to refrain from any social gathering in order to protect … (read more)