Editorials
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Editorial: Big, but not so beautiful
Even some Republicans, who rushed it through the House by a single vote, are regretting they voted for it. Rep. Majorie Taylor Green, R-Georgia, one of the staunchest…
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Editorial: As Putin mocks Trump, a reason for active protest
Two weeks ago, after a two-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump exclaimed that he’d had a wonderful chat with his good friend, Vladimir, and that…
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Editorial: H.454 hits a roadblock; time to pause and rethink
Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Baruth’s decision Tuesday night to pull the school reform bill, H.454, from a scheduled Wednesday floor vote speaks volumes about a bill that…
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Editorial: Must H.454 be medicine that’s too awful to swallow?
This Thursday, May 15, the Senate Finance Committee is expected to give H.454, the legislature’s revised school funding bill, a final review, and send it to conference committee.…
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Editorial: Standing up for free speech, individual rights
As Paramount Global Chair Shari Redstone ponders whether to sign a devil’s pact with President Trump over his bogus lawsuit against CBS News, it’s clearer than ever that…
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Editorial: Trump’s 100 days of decline
The headlines of the past week tell the story.
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Editorial: Gov. Scott finally objects to Trump’s illegal tactics
This week, Phil Scott finally sided with a majority of Americans when he expressed caution (not outrage, but at least caution) that the president was straying into dangerous…
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Editorial: Calm, not chaos, needed when changing Vt’s education system
As Vermont tackles education reform, two visions have emerged: a radical consolidation of the current 52 school districts to 5 large regional districts as proposed by Gov. Scott…
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Editorial: Trump’s credibility is toast
On Tuesday this week, the U.S. president said he would never bend from his tariff strategy. “Don’t be weak. Don’t be stupid,” he told his lemming-like faithful on…
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Editorial: Chilling arrests target everyone’s free speech
Expressing an opinion more than a year ago in a student newspaper. That was all it took for the Trump administration to lock up a student who had…
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Editorial: Of awards and the common good
A perennial winner of NENPA’s annual better newspaper content, this year represents the most awards the paper has won in any single year — and we were the…
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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,…
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Editorial: Scott should rebuke Trump
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…
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Editorial: Scott’s ‘affordability’ is not solving problems affordably
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…
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Editorial: Forgive the Fox News viewer
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?
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Editorial: Americans must find their voice to halt this train wreck
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…