Letter: An insurrection with no guns
Biden’s celebration scheduled for the Blue Room on January 6th at the People’s House is disgusting.
McClaughry: The UN climate Conference of Parties targets U.S. taxpayers
The UN climate conference is a shakedown of American taxpayers to enrich Third Worlders. We should just say no.
Stan Greer: Union bosses keep seizing dues from educators who’ve resigned
For more than 40 years, the U.S. Supreme Court sent a disturbing message to educators and other public servants in states without state-level Right to Work protections: You can resign from a union if you disagree with it, but even if you resign you will still have to bankroll the union.
McClaughry: The ‘affordable heating’ fraud
Disreputable politicians all too often assign deceptive labels to legislation to mislead voters who don’t pay close attention. A deplorable example of such mislabeling is the forthcoming Affordable Heating Act.
Keelan: It is just not the same Vermont
The most disturbing change I have witnessed is increased criminal activity, from petty incidents to major crimes. No street or home in the state is immune.
Paul Dame: Republicans have an opportunity to start building ladders
Our party has always been about giving to everyone who wants it a chance to climb a ladder of success over the barriers that exist for regular people.
Tom Evslin: Two lessons half learned in 2022
The collision between Fed policy and congressional vote-buying may well lead to a recession — which will, of course, be an excuse for more spending. A lesson half-learned.
Letter: A New Year’s prayer for our community
Let us pray, that by your choice, our collective power will be respectful, not controlling; inclusive, not discriminating; and organically natural, not agenda driven.
Paul Dame: The future of fossil fuels
Fossil fuels still play a unique role in a diversified energy portfolio, because in emergency situations, like when the supply chain of electrical power has been disrupted, fossil fuels are still the one form of energy that can be most easily stored and transported.
The ‘work’ of Vermont’s new IDEAL program
I recently investigated what “work” was proposed to be done by Vermont’s new IDEAL program, funded with $220,000 to increase the work of diversity, equity and inclusion committees around the state. The chief work appears solely to be to inculcate woke ideology in the minds of more people.
Alison Despathy: Blood elements, blood power and blood money
I implore Vermont to reconsider this overwhelming and all encompassing drive to lock into an electric future and to stand up to the corporations and governments responsible for this gross abuse of humans and the environment.
Keelan: A little boy’s Christmas wish
If a 7-year-old boy from Bennington can harbor so much trust and hope for what appears to be such a difficult situation, can we be any less hopeful that there is a chance for a better world? And isn’t this the time of year to do just that?