Guest Viewpoint: The Republicans made him do it
Remember 1960s “Laugh In” T.V. comic Flip Wilson? He used to say the “Devil made me do it” as an excuse for some misdeed. Well, now we learn that President Barack Obama was forced to cancel the permit to construct the Keystone XL pipeline because the Republicans made him do it.
From the Editor - Service without a sale
There are many signs that things just aren’t what they used to be.
Ethan Allen Institute: Those school choice rascals
An evil plot is afoot to pressure the states to adopt “school choice schemes”, according to onetime Rutland Northeast Superintendent Dr. William J. Mathis. He is currently a Shumlin appointee to the Vermont State Board of Education and Managing Director of the grandly-named “National Education Policy Center” at the University of Colorado.
Adopt A Pet - Make a Friend at the Humane Society
Please join the Rutland County Humane Society (RCHS) at the "Spring for the Animals" Auction & Casino Night.
Letter to the Editor: GMP and CVPS
To the editor: We are pleased to see that GMP and CVPS have retreated from their initial position that would have denied CVPS ratepayers additional value for their contribution to the Hydro Quebec bailout.
Rights and Privileges: K-12 in Vermont
As reports go, it could have been a lot pricier and harder-to-read, but it was quite enough anyway. That’s the recently-published Picus Report, which was commissioned to reassure the Golden Dome folks in Montpelier that their statewide school property tax,starting with Act 60, and then son-of-60, Act 68, was equitable.
The Logger: Cracked, whacked and twisted
Bruised, twisted, sprained, hyper extended, strained, cracked, whacked; ankles, knees, fingers, toes, ribs, wrists, shoulders, vertebrae, can: slow you down.
Letter to the editor: A letter to Bill McKibben
Vermont State Reps. Klein and Cheney want a renewables purchase standard, RPS, and have invited you to help out. You rightly state Vermont cannot do it alone.
From the editor: A Hobbs Act violation in the State House?
Just as our teachers are on an on-going crusade against school bullying, Vermont’s minority political party is on a similar crusade, too. The Vermont GOP believes the state’s teachers’ union has played the bully in the “school” of state politics.
Martin Harris: Preventing crisis-waste
Once upon a time, Chicago was the hog butcher for the world and City of the Big Shoulders—now it’s the place where high-rise apartments are deemed adequate only for the Lakeshore Drive upper-income quintile but not for the lower (or no-) income quintile inland.
Guest Viewpoint: Remain objective on Vermont Yankee
The three members of the Vermont Public Service Board are about to get more free advice than all the Boston Red Sox managers combined.
A judge stops the Vermont Legislature’s extortion ploy
On Jan. 20 Federal District Judge J. Garvan Murtha ruled that federal law preempts the state from regulating the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant over safety concerns.
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