McClaughry: Like they do in Quebec
In the first place, Canadian Medicare is more universal than Green Mountain Care will be. It covers all Canadians except those in the armed forces or in prison. To distinguish Green Mountain Care as being more universal is, frankly, ridiculous.
Manwaring: What we still don’t know about education funding in Vermont
But we do not know from the Picus study whether that equity of input of money to the Education Fund purchases equal educational opportunity for all Vermont’s children as required by the Supreme Court.
DeWalt: The fight’s not over
Civil disobedience and direct action will be doubtlessly be directed towards Entergy Nuclear if they continue to operate past the March 21 license expiration date.
Wallack: The pivotal role of practitioners in health care reform
Health care practitioners have to own this one, and we must develop reforms that enhance their role in the health care system, which has been sadly diminished in recent years.
Katz: Murtha eviscerated democratic process
Instead of looking at the written law, Judge Murtha opted to buy into a conspiracy theory that a handful of legislators were able to manipulate not one, but two separately elected bodies in the legislature. Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Deb Katz, executive director of Vermont Citizens Action Network, an anti-nuclear group. http://www.vtcitizen.org/ How [...]
Licata: What about doctors’ rights?
That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter seems regarded as irrelevant, selfishness; his is not to choose, they say, but “to serve.”
Greenberg: Why the Murtha decision should be appealed
Judge Murtha’s Vermont Yankee decision ignores basic principles of legal interpretation and effectively overturns the existing court precedent concerning regulation of nuclear power.
Stannard: On Mitts and Newts
So the Republicans are seemingly left between a guy who wants us to move to the moon and a guy who has never held fewer than two positions on every issue imaginable.
Evslin: Why Republicans (finally) opposed SOPA and PIPA
SOPA and PIPA were a massive overreaction to the real (although not well quantified) problems of content piracy and counterfeit goods on the Internet.
Hikel: What women want
The single biggest obstacle to progress is never addressed: the fact that men are still in charge.
