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Frenier: Systemic paternalism

Systemic paternalism, not systemic racism, is the thread that links dissolution of the American family and the decline in effective education with the failure of poor blacks to achieve the economic progress available to every American.

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Deb Billado: GWSA great for lawyers, bad for us

Again, I say that by passing such a radical bill, the Democrats and Progressives in Montpelier have demonstrated that they are perfectly willing to sacrifice our state’s economic integrity in exchange for the hypothetical of an unmeasurable and unprovable reduction in global greenhouse gas emission effects.

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Opinion: Pulling down Ethan Allen’s statue

There is no record of Ethan ever engaging in hostilities with the Abenaki. He was reported to have claimed that there were no Indians left in the Grants, which may not have been entirely true. To take down Ethan’s statue from the State House is totally unmerited.