Opinion: You don’t need a weatherman

Dylan’s lyrics remind listeners that you don’t need an expert or specialist to reveal the obvious.

Sometimes it feels like we are being sprayed daily by a firehose of corruption, lies, incompetence, cruelty, rule-breaking, ignorance and delusion by President Trump and his administration. It is exhausting. It is also important to keep speaking up and re … (read more)

Then the Vermont House passed a bill Wednesday that stops short of its original ambition.

Three people who were taken into custody by federal immigration officials during the raid, and were not named in the federal warrant, have since been released by judges. 

Vermonters organize a ‘Beautiful Resistance’ and invite others to join them in St. Albans on May 8. ‘We sing because song is an antidote to fear.’

Winooski’s superintendent told senators in February that the policy was about being prepared for worst-case scenarios.

A few weeks ago in S. Burlington, federal immigration agents entered a home looking for one person but detained three others who were not named on the warrant. These individuals were released following a judge’s order, but many people detained in Vermont … (read more)

When law enforcement officials broke down the door of a South Burlington home March 11, they were looking for a Mexican man named Deyvi Daniel Corona-Sanchez. He wasn’t there. In fact, he might never have been. What followed that raid, as well as the dete … (read more)

There are no illegal immigrants in stolen territory.

Until American citizens prevail with measures to hold ICE agents accountable for any use of excessive force, we all must deal with what the nation now considers a renegade militia that doesn’t care about the harm it does.

Middlebury police Chief Jason Covey shared ICE-related thoughts with the town selectboard on Tuesday evening, as municipal officials throughout the state continue to process the fallout from a March 11 ICE operation

Local law enforcement and state government officials use the word “unprofessional” to frame their condemnation of a recent ICE operation in South Burlington. This begs the question: What would correctly describe a “professional” ICE operation under simila … (read more)

It’s hard not to be outraged by law enforcement’s needless and brutal tactics in the March 11 confrontation in South Burlington when ICE officials pursued a Mexican immigrant who they thought was in Vermont illegally. While temperance held throughout much … (read more)

Cristian Humberto Jerez Andrade, 31, has been held since the March 11 raid on a home that triggered an hours-long confrontation, street shutdown and forced entry by federal agents.

There have been many cries of alarm about the tactics of ICE and demands for reining it in or even abolishing it. It is important to understand just what this agency is doing to raise these alarms.