Judy Wiger-Grohs


  • Opinion: An eleventh sign of fascism

    “We’re sharing widely recognized warning signs scholars and historians use when studying authoritarian systems because democracies don’t disappear overnight. ”

  • Opinion: Responding to “A counter to the No Kings rally”

    So… you drove by the No Kings 3 rally in Middlebury and observed that “most of the protesters looked like they never got over the thrill of protesting…

  • An eighth sign of fascism

    We’re sharing widely recognized warning signs scholars and historians use when studying authoritarian systems because democracies don’t disappear overnight.

  • Letter to the Editor: A fifth sign of fascism

    Letter to the Editor: A fifth sign of fascism

    Yet another sign of fascism is “whitewashing” history. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “whitewashing history” is “to distort (history, literature, a narrative) to exclude non-white people etc.

  • Letter to the editor: Paine’s ‘Crisis’ a roadmap for now

    On December 23, 1776, American patriot Thomas Paine published this essay: ‘The (American) Crisis.’ The first line is ‘These are the times that try men’s souls.’ (At the…

  • Letter to the editor: Bat boosting efforts praised

    These much maligned, often misunderstood creatures are just another example of evolution’s most divine and brilliant work.

  • Five vie for Middlebury selectboard seat

    Five local residents have stepped forward seeking to fill an interim vacancy on the Middlebury selectboard.