Bernie Sanders, Vermont Senator and America’s leading Socialist, has his 50-year goal coming to fruition in Washington D.C. To celebrate his greatest achievement, he is barnstorming the country, promoting the merits of what is euphemistically referred to as the $3.5 Trillion Budget Reconcili…
Editor’s note: This letter is in response to the allegations that are detailed in a story on the front page of this week’s Journal.
For over 20 years, the majority of school districts in Vermont have been denied their fair share of education funds, and their constitutional right to equitable educational opportunity. That’s because the formula the state uses to distribute education funds does not accurately calculate the …
This summer, in an online report of “America’s Best Places to Live in 2021,” which ranked 10 U.S. states as “America’s most welcoming,” Vermont ranked first. The state’s impressive COVID-19 response, and strong public health spending, boosted its spot. But what’s paradoxical about this repor…
If the Scott Administration is serious about supporting Vermont’s organic farmers, the Governor should convene a working group, including entrepreneurs and forward-thinking individuals, including organic farmers, outside the influence of big dairy, to take a hard look at a locally-controlled…
The events of September 11, 2001, have laid bare the unprecedented consequences to personal safety, national security, foreign policy and government credibility and have exposed the extent to which our own government is willing to protect “ally” Saudi Arabia. This, notwithstanding our govern…
A year and a half after the onset of the pandemic, Vermont remains in the midst of ongoing recovery efforts. While there is so much uncertainty about the future, one thing we can be sure of is that our state is in a unique position to emerge from this pandemic stronger than ever.
Some weeks it is hard to know what to choose as a topic. I had hoped to touch on three issues in this column, but space constraints will only allow me two, so I’ll leave the assault in Texas on the rights of women to have domain over their own bodies for another time. I will say that it prob…
Ten years ago, I was driving home from attending the North River Blues Festival outside of Boston. When I left that morning around 10:30 a.m., the trees were bending over from the wind. Watching the weather on TV with my friends and producers of the festival, John Hall and Ellie Johnson, it …
Ten years ago, I was driving home from attending the North River Blues Festival outside of Boston. When I left that morning around 10:30 a.m., the trees were bending over from the wind. Watching the weather on TV with my friends and producers of the festival, John Hall and Ellie Johnson, it …
Marikje Shelmandine was running her small business, parenting a toddler, and pregnant when the pandemic first surged in the spring of 2020. Raising a family and running a business was a juggling act in the best of times but after her second child was born it became impossible for Marikje and…
The unfolding human and political tragedy in Afghanistan was, sadly, predictable from the day — February 29, 2020 — that the self-styled Great Deal Maker Donald Trump, bypassing the Afghan government, entered into a sham “peace agreement” with the Taliban, then pressured the Afghan governmen…
British author J. K. Rowling had a succinct description of our former president. She called him “a tiny, tiny man.” It was a fairly brief, if accurate, opinion of a person who had been handed every opportunity that life could possibly present anyone — and made a holy mess of all of them.
This letter is in response to the commentary written by Meg Hansen, published on Aug. 20, titled “Virus mutation does not justify masking children."
The storied British passenger liner Lusitania was off the coast of southern Ireland on May 7, 1915. She was destined for Liverpool where the ship was scheduled to dock later that day. It was to have been her 202nd trans-Atlantic crossing. She carried 1,266 passengers and 696 crewmembers.
In July, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the U.S. consumer price inflation rate rose to 5.4 percent, practically matching the previous month's 13-year high.
Editorials
A first look at a new decennial census is always enlightening to study, to try to analyze the gains and the losses. This year’s census for Vermont is especially intriguing because of the dramatic increase in the population of the ski-related towns.
John Klar, who finished a distant second to Gov. Phil Scott in the 2020 Republican primary, brought his traveling roadshow to Bennington County this week, with stops in Bennington and Manchester.
April 22 was Earth Day, but if you ask many advocates for the environment and climate action, we just closed out Earth Week. This expansive approach to raising awareness about human-caused climate change and how to mitigate it is certainly appropriate, given the stakes.
Letters to the Editor
In praise of the Vermont dairy farmer
To the Editor: When you think of Vermont, nothing is more quintessential than the iconic dairy farmer. In many ways, the backbone of the local community and economy.
To the Editor: The Kid's Summer Lunch Team would like to thank the Manchester Fire Department for the generous use of its space this summer.
To the editor: The latest figures show that the COVID-19 childhood case fatality rate is 0.01 percent, that is, around 520 children have died since the pandemic began.
To the editor: I feel that it is necessary to respond to the commentary by Meg Hansen, which was published in the Bennington Banner and the Manchester Journal in the past two weeks.
