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Letter to the editor: Scott administration focused on low taxes, not children or families
Department for Children and Families workers can’t go the extra mile when they have excessive caseloads, the predictable result of our failure to address the key underlying causes of child neglect: poverty and homelessness.
Meg Handler: Weighing whims of the few against rights of the many
Vermont’s willingness to indulge a few people in their desire to engage in wake sports will result in the degradation of broader public rights to clean water, healthy shorelines, personal safety and more.
Mary Dingee Fillmore: Three shots in Vermont heard around the world
Our feeling of being exceptional has eroded a lot lately.
Don Tinney: Vermont can’t afford to shortchange our children
With his gloom-and-doom rhetoric, Gov. Phil Scott is trying to scare taxpayers instead of offering solutions.