Jack Mayer
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Jack Mayer wins prize for book of poetry
Living here in Addison County, it’s a fair guess that most of us like nature; many of us might even say we “love it.” Whatever it is, we’re…
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Letter to the editor: Lowering the flag might help
A modest pandemic proposal: Governor Scott, and other governors, might issue an order to lower all flags to half-staff for the duration of the pandemic to 1. commemorate…
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Poetry: 2020 Plague
(Trail Around Middlebury (TAM) – Chipman Hill – 4/7/20) I sing these trails of my homeland, with elegiac footfalls on layers of fallen foliage. A green-yellow striped…
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Jack Mayer: COVID-19, a cautionary tale
I am a Vermont primary care pediatrician with a background in public health. The U.S. public health response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has been a slow-motion train…
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Opinion: Trump is bad for the environment
From 1987–1991 I was a National Cancer Institute Epidemiology Fellow at Columbia University School of Public Health in a research group that is now the Columbia Center for…