Editorials
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Editorial: If students focused their protests, they could have the world behind them
If others aren’t going to protest America’s support of Israel through its billions in cash and tens of thousands of bombs that have reduced wide swaths of Gaza…
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Editorial: Vote yes, with thanks for an Ilsley project done well
It’s not often that residents of any town can gladly approach a significant bond issue knowing all parties involved have excelled at crafting a $16.99 million library renovation…
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Editorial: SVUUSD faces double jeopardy
Residents of the Slate Valley Unified Union School District, which serves Orwell and the northwestern part of Rutland County, face tough sledding in getting its school budget passed…
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Editorial: School budgets deserve OK, but process needs tweaking
As voters within MAUSD learned this past week, defeating such budgets have real consequences: The school district sent out 17 RIF (reduction in force) notices to teachers, many…
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Editorial: ‘Cool enough to yell about’
Wherever you were in the path of the total eclipse this past Monday at quarter past three in the afternoon, the world seemingly stood still for a moment…
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Editorial: Elementary school is not what most of us once knew
In last week’s Addison Independent, reporter John Flowers wrote two insightful stories revealing student behavioral problems within the Addison Central School District, most of which occurred in the…
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Editorial: County Dems have role in asking Vekos to resign
Two things are clear in the recent Vermont Supreme Court ruling that suspended the law license of Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos: first, that Vekos failed to…
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Editorial: Kudos, and thanks Addy All-Stars
I’d be remiss if I didn’t shout from the rooftops that the Addison Independent was named best-of-the-best among New England’s largest weekly newspapers.
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Editorial: High fives, and thumbs down, for legislative work this session
Last week and this are crucial weeks in the state’s legislative session; it’s when bills either cross over from the House to the Senate or vice-versa — or…
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Editorial: *The* issue of this election
Just as Ukraine is at a crossroads in its war with Russia, so too is today’s Republican Party as a political crossroads between supporting America’s fight for freedom…
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Editorial: Pull the plug on Israel, Joe
Vermont’s U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch, with a handful of other Democratic senators, are right to urge President Joe Biden to use the Foreign Assistance Act…
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Editorial: No easy fix for costly school budgets, but here’s a start
As about a third of the state’s school districts, including three of the four school districts serving Addison County, were defeated in Town Meeting votes this Tuesday, voters…
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Editorial: At town meeting, local races and big questions on school budgets
Across Addison County, the Addison Independent’s coverage of Town Meeting sees relatively few local races or issues, but big questions concerning higher-than-average school budgets.
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Editorial: $1.50 buys $25,000 in value!
Inside today’s Addison Independent, readers will find a four-page EXTRA section announcing the launch of The Addy All-Stars. It’s a term recognizing Addy Indy readers who choose to…
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Editorial: ‘Perfect storm’ drives school taxes, but what can be done?
This Town Meeting, passing school budgets will be no sure thing. That’s largely because tax rates are set to increase by double-digits, even if school budgets are held…
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Editorial: Taxpayers get great news
It’s not often any town’s taxpayers get such good news. But that happened recently when the Middlebury selectboard learned the proposed $16.4 million rebuild of Middlebury’s Ilsley Library…