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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rights and Privileges: Going bare while staying covered
At last count, 26 states had legislatively expressed their disapproval of the mandate-to-purchase-health-insurance in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Rights and Privileges: Middlebury taxes and education
Recently a Middlebury reader of my weekly newspaper column emailed me to comment, in a sort of mini-analysis, about why his taxes, in such a small Vermont town, are so high.
What’s not to like about Cruise?
Scrawlins'
Is it that he’s too short? Is it the weird, overwrought way he runs in movies?
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