Deen: Where did it all come from?
For all the importance of water to all species, we do not know where it came from nor how there came to be so much of it, to the point where oceans covers 70 percent of Earth’s surface.
Perry: Cuts to senior services unwise
However, where the spreadsheet hits the reality of the lives of Vermonters, it isn’t a formula any more. It isn’t a quick calculation in the care for our seniors.
Brigham: Level funding of school budgets harmful
As a school board member, I have grown a thick skin, broad shoulders and a long neck.
McClaughry: The evil school-choice plot
Without this common education requirement, Mathis believes, parents will too often make ill-informed educational choices that appear to them better for their children, with no concern for the democratic ideal.
Dunsmore: Avoiding an Iran-Israel war
For the most part, there has been little debate in this country over the need and/or the wisdom of bombing Iran to prevent it from going nuclear.
DeWalt: Why civil disobedience?
We are no longer a fully functioning republic, the three branches of government, while still separate from each other, have all been co-opted by the powerful monied interests, and serve now to see that those interests are tended to, while the rest of us be damned.
Thomson: Shumlin plan for state hospital inadequate on many levels
VSH had 54 beds, and was often filled for weeks or months at a time, even though Vermont hospitalizes its citizens at half the rate of most states.
Killacky: Seeing anew
My panel duty did not ignite a travel-lust of my own for Antarctica; instead I have been inspired by these artists to pay more attention to my own home environment.
Keelan: Hats off to volunteer firefighters
The name “fire department” can be somewhat misleading in that its members are called upon to do much more than just put down fires.
Schubart: In the name of religion
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Bill Schubart, a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio and president of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the umbrella organization for VTDigger.org. This piece was first aired on VPR. Whether I am ushered into the next world by a choir of cherubs or a bevy of trident-bearing imps, or whether [...]
