Letter to the editor: Draft dodger doesn’t know about war

The current Commander in chief deceived his Draft Board and lied to his country. To serve would have been inconvenient and beneath his station.

Trump’s haphazard policy of chaos works for some MAGA supporters who have accepted his role as supreme leader. For everyone else, there’s reality.

Despite ongoing uncertainty over a new set of tariffs the White House announced over the weekend, Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., called the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling “good news.”

New federal work requirements limiting eligibility for the nation’s largest food assistance program will take effect for many in Vermont on March 1.

Balint told VTDigger’s The Vermont Conversation that Trump’s retribution can take many forms.

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.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, tuned in virtually to a constituent lunch at the Mount Abraham Union High School cafeteria this past Saturday.

What’s different in politics, immigration, health care and social services, the economy, education and climate policy.

Vermont’s congressional delegation condemned the U.S. military’s attack on Venezuela over the weekend that led to the capture of the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.

Trump is not the most productive president in his first year; the more accurate claim is he’s done the most damage any president ever has. In one realm — mayhem — he’s a leader.

As new legal battles challenge President Donald Trump’s National Guard troop deployments in U.S. cities, Vermonters have been amping up efforts to express their public opposition.

Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration. Is it a waste of taxpayer dollars, defending against these? Is it a witch hunt? What do judges appointed by Republicans think of all it all?

As the impact of Trump’s big, bad bill becomes more widely understood, Vermonters will begin to see first-hand the difference between policy for the public good versus policy for the benefit of certain individuals.

Any Vermonter who has been following the dire straits of the state’s health care system immediately understands the threat posed by the cuts to Medicaid. Under Trump’s big, bad bill an estimated $1 trillion will be cut from the program that helps subsidiz … (read more)

Some of Vermont’s top elected officials converged on Middlebury Saturday to spread a united message during these tumultuous early days of the Trump Administration: The Green Mountain State will safeguard its citizens from the growing threats of reduced fe … (read more)