Opinion and commentary at VTDigger
VTDigger publishes opinion pieces from community members and regular contributors on issues affecting Vermonters. These essays are distinct from VTDigger’s independent news reporting and reflect the views of their authors.
This section features commentary and analysis from across the state, providing a space for civic dialogue alongside VTDigger’s journalism.
Latest Opinion
Why Vermonters who leave can’t stay away
The Green Mountains have a pull that Connecticut plates and decades away can’t quite break.
Vermont’s governing class is destroying the state it claims to serve
Working Vermonters are paying for an ideology the ruling class will never have to live with.
Vermont’s proposed school mergers aren’t really voluntary
Vermont’s new education law keeps the language of local control, but the financial penalties make the outcome all but predetermined.
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The moral purpose of education
We measure educational success in test scores and workforce readiness. We’ve forgotten that schools were built to form free people.
Don’t buy the nuclear sales pitch
Before embracing “new and improved” nuclear energy, Vermont should resolve the waste left behind from Vermont Yankee.
Who governs Lake Champlain?
What the governance of Lake Champlain can teach us about managing the commons — and why the next step matters.
Hateful words have consequences
The anti-Israel vandalism of a Cavendish studio points to a broader climate of anti-Jewish sentiment in Vermont.
We came for the skiing. We stayed because of the school.
Vermont’s public tuitioning system turned a vacation home into a forever home for one New York family. Now lawmakers may gut it.
It’s time for Vermont to reconsider its outdated nuclear moratorium
Modern technology and Vermont’s clean energy ambitions demand a rethink on nuclear.
