January 27, 2014

Q & A with Mayoral Hopeful Gwen Hallsmith

Q. So, why a public bank for Vermont? What’s wrong with our local commercial banks? A. There is nothing wrong with our local commercial banks, except, […]
January 27, 2014

The Localization Movement: Getting Down to Business By Richard K. Moore

Civilization in crisis I doubt if readers of this article need to be told that civilization is in crisis. But in the interest of setting our […]
January 29, 2014

F-35 Still Performing Poorly by Winslow Wheeler

F-35 observers, both advocates and critics, have been waiting for the 2013 Annual Report of the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E).  After its […]
February 17, 2014

The Trouble with Sprawl by Greg Guma

In 1969, Vermont took a vanguard role in the emerging environmental movement. The law known as Act 250 was a landmark attempt to preserve the state’s […]
February 17, 2014

Saving Vermont Town Meeting: A Modest Proposal

As a Waitsfield citizen, parent and school board member for more than a decade now, I am writing in support of preserving our annual Vermont town […]
February 17, 2014

School Shows Zero Tolerance for Public Accountability by William Boardman

Remember that flurry of news reports in December 2013 about a middle school with a zero tolerance weapons policy suspending two fifth grade boys, one for […]
February 24, 2014

Antidote To Corporate Imperialism by Thomas Gram

I know that many people in this movement for secession and decentralization are libertarian-leaning, and are invested in the movement because of their dissatisfaction with overreach […]
March 10, 2014

Ukraine, Peak oil and The Nuclear Option by Tom Fugate

Current events in the Ukraine are reaching a global crisis level that needs to be discussed. The United States and EU have initiated a war for […]
March 10, 2014

Vermont Education Spending, Tax Disconnect by Heidi Spear

The front page lead for The Burlington Free Press on February 22, “Small Schools, Big Bills,” was quite the attention grabber, but the article that followed […]
March 10, 2014

Ghoulish Gala by Dylan Kelley

I’d known it was coming for a while but it was on a miserable winter day that it all came crashing in on each of us. […]