Halkias: Returned, unopened
In love since the early days of the war at age 15, nearly 700 letters had passed between her and Bernie, many while they were city neighbors. … On that April day, Bernie had been missing in action for almost a month.
Olsen: Why wasn’t Dodge informed about income sensitivity for property tax debt?
Former state representative Oliver Olsen questions Shumlin.
Yankowski: What should a community expect from its local newspaper?
The scandal at the IRS isn’t about conservative or Republican doings, it’s about improper or now likely criminal activity at an agency under President Obama’s control. The Herald editorial essentially ignored this and instead chose to attack conservatives in lieu of dealing with relevant facts.
Leas: Crashing the party: Not if, but where the F-35 will crash
An independent and impartial investigation is needed to determine whether the numbers were fudged, and if so by whom and at whose behest.
Donahue: Wake up, Dorothy. You’re not in Oregon anymore.
Eradicated by the Senate were fully 29 separate protective provisions that the House had required in its Oregon version, some of them small, some of them huge.
Leas: Follow the money – the F-35 Fudge-gate scandal
The empty land from those 200 families whose homes were bought out by the city of Burlington is in fact being eyed by certain developers who stand to make lots of money by putting up commercial buildings near the airport entrance — similar to the commercial development one sees at other airports.
Leas: Quite a pair of stings for F-35 basing
What explains the intense push to base the F-35 at a densely populated commercial airport in Vermont?
Schneider: Senate Resolution 7 – a cloak of narcissistic paranoia
Stop holding so much of the state’s business cloistered in the hallowed undersized rooms of the Statehouse where so few Vermonters have access.
Jackowski: Assisted suicide is not the answer
The question that we should be asking is how can we improve life and death for all.
Keelan: The forgotten war
In early 1950 to many in the U.S. State Department, including Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Korea was a civil war. To the U.S. military leaders and especially Gen. Douglas MacArthur, it was a war to contain communism.
