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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.
Lucie Lehmann: It’s time to change how and why we name things after people
We can debate whether or not public servants should be honored on monuments that taxpayers pay for. What isn’t debatable is that we need more diversity in our honorees.
John Pirone: Deaf, hard of hearing, and DeafBlind children in Vermont need your help
Over at least the past six years, school districts and the Agency of Education have been aware of these inequities but have done little to address them, thus perpetuating the problem.