OPINION: The Breeze Newspaper’s Puzzling Publication
by Ron Merkin Is it not blatantly ironic? Montpelier High School students recently wrote and with the cooperation of The Bridge published a special one time issue of a newspaper called The Breeze. In...
View ArticleOPINION: Rape Policy Needs Revamping
by Laura Cassetty In the four years I was in high school, Montpelier High School has grown so much. The school community has come so far in acknowledging rape culture. When I was a freshman, rape...
View ArticleOPINION: Laudato Si’: “On Care for Our Common Home”
by John Elder At over 180 pages, the encyclical presented by Pope Francis on June 18 calls for study and reflection. The pope’s stature has meant that his discussion of human-caused climate change — as...
View ArticleOPINION: Fix Social Security With A Carbon Tax
by Phil Dodd Perhaps because I am now a few years past my 60th birthday, I’m a little more aware of the looming problems of social security. But social security’s long-term financial problems should be...
View ArticleOPINION: Whistleblower: Center For Disease Control Data Linking Vaccines and...
by Jennifer Stella Leaked scientific data has been disclosed showing that links between autism and vaccines were covered up by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the...
View ArticleOPINION: The Grange Can Help Berlin and Berlin Can Help the Grange!
by Jeremy Hansen Starting on Town Meeting Day, I conducted a survey of Berlin residents using Internet and paper surveys. I received 29 responses to a variety of questions, such as residents’ thoughts...
View ArticleOPINION: Rift Growing Between Hunger Mountain Coop Staff, Management
by Ellie Bayer We are proud to work at Hunger Mountain Cooperative — a business that defines itself as “a member-owned, community based natural market, committed to building a dynamic community of...
View ArticleOPINION: ‘Healthcare is a Human Right’ Campaign Condemns 2016 Insurance Rate...
by Keith Brunner The Green Mountain Care Board approved 5.9 percent and 2.4 percent average annual rate hikes for 2016 Vermont Health Connect plans from Blue Cross Blue Shield and MVP, respectively....
View ArticleOPINION: The Quiet Revolution in Our School House
Part One of a Two-Part Series by David Kelley It was a Vermonter, John Dewey, who helped usher in the educational reforms necessary to sustain the growth and development of a robust middle class and a...
View ArticleOPINION: A Day to Care for Creation
by Deb Markowitz Last week I had an opportunity to spend some time with an older gentleman who has lived in the hills of Vermont his whole life. As he showed me his land, he shared his belief that more...
View ArticleOPINION: The Revolution in Our School House, Part II: For Whom the Bill Tolls
by David Kelley In her 1953 book, Vermont Tradition, Dorothy Canfield Fisher tells the story of a town meeting in Arlington. The need for a new school had been simmering for years, but floods and...
View ArticleOPINION: Life is a Highway
by Michelle A.L. Singer When I was in high school, Tom Cochran’s version of the song “Life is a Highway” hit the airwaves and attached itself directly to my nervous system. I had a license, a good pair...
View ArticleOPINION: Multifarious Multimodalism: Different Ways of Getting Around
by Carl Etnier A multimodal transportation center is key to the development plans for One Taylor Street in Montpelier. When it’s complete, people will be able to walk, bicycle or drive there and get...
View ArticleOPINION: Reduce Lawn Size to Save the Environment, Time and Money
by George Plumb Deborah Markowitz, writing as secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources and as a Jew, recently wrote about the spiritual responsibility of dealing with climate change. In it, she...
View ArticleOPINION: Stop Industrial Wind Development — We Must Protect Our Ridgelines,...
by Brian Dubie In 2009, when I was serving as lieutenant governor, I was invited to the Bolton Valley Ski Area resort for the commissioning of a wind turbine manufactured by Barre workers. Its blade...
View ArticleOPINION: Education Quality Reviews: The Whole Picture
by Emily Fowler Current models of federal accountability have focused on English/language arts, mathematics and student test results. As a result, school systems across the nation have distorted...
View ArticleOPINION: Industrial Wind Farm Would Pollute Water
FAIRFIELD — My husband Bruce and I have lived on Fairfield Pond, in Fairfield for 16 years. We’ve run the Fairfield Pond Recreation Association for 14 of those years. Water quality issues have been at...
View ArticleOPINION: Your Drinking Water: Managing the Risk of Recreation on the Source
Protection of drinking water sources is serious business in most New England states and New York. The laws may be administered by the state, community or water utility, but almost every state prohibits...
View ArticleOPINION: Vote ‘No’ On Hunger Mountain Coop Bylaw Change
by Billy Donovan At their upcoming annual meeting November 15, The Hunger Mountain Coop will be asking members to vote on a bylaw change that would alter the current system of “voting through...
View ArticleOPINION: Hunger Mountain Bylaws Change Was Cobbled Together
by Carl Etnier Members of Hunger Mountain Coop will vote at the November 15 annual meeting on changing the co-op’s bylaws. It’s a proposal from a highly divided co-op council, which voted 5 to 4 for...
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