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.

Healthcare workers concerned about the impact of recent government actions

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.

Letter to the editor: Providers rebuke Trump on science, health care cuts

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

Community Forum: Vaccines are our lifeboats

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

Letter to the editor: Group to defend our democracy

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.

Letter to the editor: The ‘arc of the moral universe’ is longer than ideal

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.

Letter to the editor: Mayer essay draws kudos

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.

Letter to the editor: ‘Vote Forward’ prior to Nov. 5

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

Community Forum: Quantum engines

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.

Guest editorial: Traditional Medicare is under attack

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

Get ‘Entangled’ in poetry by local pediatrician

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.

Letter to the editor: ‘Vote Forward’ helps empower the underrepresented

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

Poet’s Corner: Tapping, Tapping for Essence

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

Letter to the editor: Time for Midd mask mandate

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.

Letter to the editor: Nazi party parallels seen in Jan. 6 assault on Capitol

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)

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