Editorials
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Editorial: Why chaos and scapegoating work for Trump
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.…
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Editorial: Trump’s reckless chaos
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…
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Editorial: Sliding toward autocracy
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…
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Editorial: Trump’s orders make the nation weaker, less just
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,…
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Editorial: Early signs of progress on housing, education reform
Early statewide conversations on school funding and housing offer some hope that progress on these two crucial issues will finally occur.
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Editorial: Just saying ‘no’ is not an effective agenda
In a written statement released the opening day of the 2025 Legislative session and a day ahead of his fifth inaugural address, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott encouraged Vermont…
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Editorial: Discerning truth from fiction
It’s big news that Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Threads and Instagram, is dropping its fact-checking program and instigating a system in which the public fact-checks itself.
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Editorial: 2025: Past progress gives hope for tomorrow’s issues
As 2024 draws to a close and 2025 opens a fresh chapter, the sense of renewal and rejuvenation, of starting with a fresh slate, has a strong cultural…
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Editorial: Yes, Virginia…
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that…
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Editorial: Trump vs. a free press
ABC settled a defamation suit in which George Stephanopoulos incorrectly said Trump had been found liable of raping E. Jean Carrol, rather than liable of sexual abuse. There’s…
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Editorial: Progress on encampment polilcy, no easy fixes
Good progress. That’s an apt reflection of the town of Middlebury’s effort to manage its relatively small, and mostly cooperative, houseless population.
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Editorial: Of book bans and blessings
Leading off the front page in today’s Addison Independent is a blaring headline with two stories about two parents who have asked the Mary Hogan Elementary School to…
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Editorial: Vt. education commission faces tough nuts to crack
The task for the Commission on the Future of Public Education in Vermont is straightforward: devise a system that provides equitable, quality public education to all Vermonters —…
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Editorial: Finding thanks can be hard
Being thankful isn’t always easy. That’s the realization many Vermonters may have post-election with a man unfit for the presidency in so many ways assuming power again, supported…
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Editorial: Rutland sets example of how to grow local housing
“Housing,” said Nevon Neary, executive director of the Rutland Regional Planning Commission, “doesn’t just pop up out of nowhere.”
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Editorial: Before school budget talks turn to slashing expenses, let’s have a grand plan
With 2024-25 education property tax rate hikes well into double digits last year, it’s little doubt school boards will be primed for holding costs to a minimum for…