Editorial: Upset about Trump cutting crucial services? Speak up!

Because if you don’t speak out now, this Republican-led Congress will believe Americans don’t care about the damage Trump is doing to the country and is, in fact, on the right track.

If Gov. Phil Scott is serious about saving money in the state budget, rather than denying a few hundred people shelter for a month or two he’d better start challenging President Trump’s self-serving executive orders.

Before Vermonters label Gov. Scott heartless for denying “children, pregnant women, disabled Vermonters, veterans, and those fleeing domestic violence” from the motel voucher program set to expire on April 1, voters should consider the Governor’s position … (read more)

Forgive the poor Fox News viewer for having a dim view of Democrats. If that’s where you get your news, how could you not?

It’s difficult to grasp how much change Trump has wreaked on America in these past couple of weeks. Even for Americans who read the news carefully, so much happens so quickly that the far-too-common reaction by voters is to tune out the political noise an … (read more)

At Vermont’s Town Meetings last year, voters rejected over 30 school budgets, about one in three, because of budget increases that averaged close to 13%. This year, when the average property tax is expected to rise about 6% or half what it did last year, … (read more)

If you managed to watch President Trump’s address to Congress without blowing a gasket, that either means you fell asleep during the longest, chest-thumping, rambling rampage of narcissism the nation has ever witnessed or, like too many congressional Repu … (read more)

As Town Meeting gets underway as early as this weekend in some Addison County towns, and next Monday and Tuesday for others, most residents will face much lower school taxes than the prior year, and modest increases in their town budgets. The sticker shoc … (read more)

This Town Meeting, Middlebury residents will decide their largest bond vote ever: a $49.5 million makeover of its 25-year-old sewer plant. Built in 2000, the 20-year projected lifespan of the plant is five years past that due date and will be forced to ho … (read more)

The slash-and-burn strategy of the Trump administration’s reduction-in-force actions, and its support by this lemming-like Republican Congress, is as wasteful and destructive as it is idiotic.

As Vermonters begin to understand the debate around reforming Vermont’s educational system, a few priorities should remain front and center: first, change is needed; second, we shouldn’t be in the business of funding charter or religious schools (which wi … (read more)

As the nation’s increasingly discredited president continues to sow chaos at every level — domestic and international — it helps to understand what we can of his tactics. A recent piece by Jess Bidgood, a New York Times correspondent, explains how Trump u … (read more)

When Trump issued his ill-considered order to freeze federal funding for thousands of programs across the country, it’s unlikely he and his team didn’t realize it would cause chaos, havoc and fear for millions of Americans. Why Trump and his advisors know … (read more)

The sight of more than 100 area citizens braving sub-freezing temperatures on Middlebury’s Town Green to protest the most egregious of the incoming president’s policies, while championing the work of famed civil rights leader Martin Luther King, is a fitt … (read more)

Of the dozens of executive orders President Trump enacted during his first two days of offices, most are more ordinary than not, some are more vengeful than impactful, others seek to reorder the way government has governed for the past several decades and … (read more)