Letter to the editor: Medicaid cuts would hurt all Vermonters

Tell your town officials about how federal cuts to health care would ricochet through the Vermont economy.

Hundreds of Vermont and New Hampshire healthcare workers are deeply concerned about the Trump administration’s assaults on our public health system and healthcare worldwide.

We are health care providers concerned about the consequences of the Trump administration’s attempts to restrict or eliminate critical health-care programs.

Dreaded diseases that we have forgotten about because vaccines have eliminated them are threatening to return.

A significant portion of blame for the Nazis and the Third Reich rests with the passivity of German people and institutions until it was too late to stop Hitler and his minions.

The arc of history and all,/ you know, bending toward justice./ We seem to be somewhere/ along the upper reaches/ of that arc, where the air is thin.

I enjoyed the essay by John Mayer titled “Quantum Engines” in the Aug. 22 Addison Independent. Like him I am not a physicist, and like him I have followed the developments and ideas of physics as closely as a nontechnical reader may.

As our historic election approaches many of us want to do something to advance voter participation, especially in critical states and districts.

When I knock my knuckle on this table it feels solid. Yet, I know that it is almost completely empty spaces with tiny atoms and their electron clouds.

I’ve spent my professional life as a primary care pediatrician, mostly in Vermont. Now I’m retired and the beneficiary of Medicare. 

When Jack Mayer is walking alone on the Long Trail, he carries a small notebook — a place to jot down whatever comes to his mind.

I want to encourage people to vote in the upcoming midterm elections.

Downy Woodpecker, a small guy,/ pecks at big wood./ A storm is brewing/ and I’m still half a mile from Minerva Hinchey.

I was very disappointed that at their last two meetings the Middlebury selectboard declined to issue a mask mandate (instead of merely a recommendation) for indoor public spaces in Middlebury.

One hundred years ago, March 1920, several thousand right-wing, self-appointed, thugs marched on Berlin under the direction of Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz. They seized Berlin and overthrew Germany’s Weimar democracy for four days — the Kapp Put … (read more)