Editorials
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Editorial: Graduation’s life lessons
The challenge in the journey is to persevere with grace, humility and goodwill toward others.
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Editorial: Biden’s ‘weakness’ isn’t his age, it’s his timidity
On a few notable foreign policy issues, President Joe Biden, along with fellow Democrats and Progressives, need to reset their politics to match today’s reality.
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Editorial: Sen. Leahy’s legacy is a window into bipartisan politics not to be forgotten
In the past couple of weeks, I was fortunate to spend several hours with former Sen. Patrick Leahy.
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Editorial: Three school budgets must pass
In a legislative column in today’s issue, Sen. Ruth Hardy and Rep. Peter Conlon write a telling piece shedding more light on this year’s contentious school budgets, and…
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Editorial: The case for Dean, while Scott’s burden is heavier
Could this year’s “tough” legislative session have been less bitter, more productive, and had a better outcome with a different dynamic between the Legislature and the governor’s office?
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Editorial: MNFF’s 10-year miracle
It’s no small deal to create something from nothing. It’s even more incredulous when what’s created is top-notch.
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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…