Editorials
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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…
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Editorial: School budgets: What a difference a year makes!
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…
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Editorial: If you believe him, you lose
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…
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Editorial: Town Meeting: School budgets see modest hikes; town budgets are mixed
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…
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Editorial: A bargain at $49.5 million?
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…
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Editorial: Reckless actions, lack of concern, hurt us all
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.
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Editorial: School funding priorities
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…