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Burlington GOP chair resigns, says party ‘hijacked by far-right extremists’

By Xander Landen

Feb 18 2021February 18, 2021

State Republican leaders had criticized Kolby LaMarche after he said they had a “fixation on loyalty to narcissistic national leaders” and had adopted “a politics of personal revenge.”


After Trump’s acquittal, Leahy calls for criminal investigation of the former president

By Xander Landen

Feb 16 2021February 17, 2021

The veteran Vermont senator said Trump “has to” face criminal prosecution. Leahy also backed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s call for a “9/11-type commission” to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.


Leahy, Sanders vote to convict Trump of inciting insurrection

By Paul Heintz

Feb 13 2021February 13, 2021

Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy

The former president was acquitted Saturday after the U.S. Senate fell 10 votes short of conviction.


Scott’s condemnation of Trump cited in impeachment trial

By Xander Landen

Feb 11 2021February 11, 2021

Impeachment managers played footage from a speech Gov. Phil Scott gave after the Jan. 6 riots stating that Trump’s actions “gave rise to one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history.”


Leahy presides, and takes fire, as Trump’s second impeachment trial begins

By Xander Landen

Feb 9 2021February 10, 2021

Patrick Leahy

Vermont’s senior senator was a focus of Trump’s lawyers as they sought to convince his colleagues to declare the trial unconstitutional.


Bossange: 100 days of reckoning for America begins with us

By Commentary

Jan 31 2021January 31, 2021

This commentary is by John Bossange, a retired middle school principal who now volunteers on a number of nonprofit boards in the Burlington area. As President Biden begins to define his goals, like other presidents before him, he has set up an ambitious 100-day plan for his administration. That’s a good thing and will certainly […]


Walt Amses: Breathing again

By Commentary

Jan 22 2021January 22, 2021

Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, firmly declaring “Democracy has prevailed” in an inauguration that felt comforting in its adherence to tradition and defiant in its rejection of the acrimonious last four years.


Vermont Conversation: Stuart Stevens on the collapse of the Republican Party

By David Goodman

Jan 22 2021January 22, 2021

Is the GOP a threat to democracy? “Of course it is,” says political strategist Stuart Stevens. “I don’t see how you can argue that.”


Elayne Clift: Time to recover and safeguard our future

By Commentary

Jan 20 2021January 20, 2021

Dare we hope that we can do the hard work required of us? Can we truly commit to never subjecting ourselves, our progeny, or our country to another national nightmare?


Vermont Conversation: Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump as a 21st century strongman

By David Goodman

Jan 20 2021January 20, 2021

“Trump is a 21st century strongman. He’s a showman and manipulator,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.”


John Egan: Fly the American flag

By Commentary

Jan 19 2021January 19, 2021

In support of our democracy, I thought about flying the American flag out by our mailbox, but hesitated to do so lest it be interpreted as support for Trump


Michael Long: Trump decried American carnage and then delivered it

By Commentary

Jan 18 2021January 18, 2021

Self-interest, science denial, magical thinking, grievance, and now insurrection and sedition largely define the policies and the legacy of Trump.


Peter Berger: With a high hand

By Commentary

Jan 18 2021January 18, 2021

The mob came to overturn a lawful election and, by that seditious act, overthrow the United States government. They came to terrorize, destroy, and assassinate. They were sent by Donald Trump.


Kolby LaMarche: Vermont GOP leadership must resign

By Commentary

Jan 13 2021January 13, 2021

In response to the egregious terrorist attack on our nation, Deb Billado released a flippant statement that failed to condemn — or even name — the man who incited a violent mob and a siege of our Capitol which resulted in multiple deaths.


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