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Guest editorial: Health care alarm bells should be ringing
As an emergency doctor and a longtime observer of how policy decisions play out on the front line, I can say that the despair rings absolutely true, and…
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Guest editorial: All the news that isn’t fit to print; a destructive digital revolution
We here in the United States have taken the quality of journalism in this country for granted for far too long.
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Guest editorial: How you can help protect our democracy
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Over the past few weeks, I have given considerable thought to the message I want to convey to Vermonters on this important topic.
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Guest editorial: Suggested use for ARPA funds
My challenge to all of you is this: How do we restore not only the buildings themselves, but their use, their purpose and their pride?
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Guest editorial: ‘Offensive and shocking:’ We better come to terms with solar panels soon
This is a story of a state that’s failing to understand we’re actually in a climate emergency, and continuing with business that looks a lot like usual.
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Guest editorial: COVID spreading again; time to take precautions
On Aug. 7 Vermont recorded 112 cases of COVID-19, at the time the highest single-day count since April 29. I was one of those cases, and the third…
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Guest editorial: Vermont’s civic future is at risk
As Vermonters, we are fortunate to have a state government that believes voting is a right, not a privilege. One that takes seriously the Constitutional command to carefully…
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Guest editorial: Critique of Critical Race Theory not based in fact
Like science, history is an ever-emerging narrative based on curiosity, exploration, discovery, debate and interpretation. But like science (and journalism), it must be informed by fact.The recent screed…
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Guest editorial: When should juveniles be adults?
Gov. Phil Scott’s only veto of the 2021 session is of a bill (S.107) that would raise from 19 to 20 the age before which the identity, arrest…
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Guest editorial: Legislature resists kicking pension plan down the road
The Legislature has before it — at long last — a proposal to address the solvency of the state’s pension system. There is nothing in the proposal for…
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Guest editorial: Broadband: A national imperative
A few years back, I remember attending an author event at Bixby Library in Vergennes. It was after hours and the library was closed except to guests. As…
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Guest Editorial: The faith we place in our elections
This week’s writer is Lee Hamilton, a Senior Advisor for the Indiana University Center on Representative Government; a Distinguished Scholar at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global…
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Guest editorial: Of liberty and masks
If government makes you wear a facemask to help ward off the spread of the coronavirus, has it trampled on your freedom, your personal liberty? If government decides,…
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Guest editorial: Vermont can no longer sustain its 14 hospitals
As a grateful user of Vermont’s health care system (UVM hip replacement last year), an observer of its growth (the house I grew up in in Morrisville was…
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Guest editorial: Putting principle over party
Editor’s note: Sen. Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, was the only Republican to break with his party and support removing President Trump from office. In doing so, he…
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Guest editorial: Small price for big value — free tuition at CCV
Sen. Ruth Hardy, D-Addison, has introduced a bill to create a Community College Scholarship Program that would provide tuition-free scholarships for Vermont residents attending CCV. It would, from…