Bill Schubart's Posts
Questions for our “nonprofit” healthcare system governing boards.
As healthcare costs in Vermont gobble up more and more expendable resources needed for housing, education, property tax abatement etc. it’s time to ask hard questions and hold providers… Read More
Government isn’t the problem; it’s the solution… if we support and use it responsibly.
There’s been a lot of blither written on both ends of the political spectrum about how government is not the answer to our accelerating challenges.… Read More
Geezer and Golden Gals in Hinesburg
The ‘Triple G’ group, more sedately called by the Carpenter-Carse Library staff “Senior Meet-up,” gets together every Monday from 1 PM to 2:30 PM in the community room of the… Read More
What has happened to Vermont?
What are the cohesive elements in Vermont’s 247 towns and cities? What sustains their human connection, commerce, and community? Though born in New York City, I grew up in Morrisville… Read More
Happy Poetry Month: Two Superb new Vermont Collections
I often ask myself if depression is circumstantial or anatomical. Although it runs deep in my family, current events certainly play a role, and… Read More
Our young people are leading in the arts
Dark times in America… Even as Vermont’s only a small part of the whole, our own Senator Bernie Sanders is adding disproportionate reach to our small footprint at a critical… Read More
Vermont, can we go it alone?
I write about Vermont. Others with greater knowledge than I cover the national landscape. My feelings about how we’re doing as a nation are informed by the writers I follow… Read More
In the Shadow of the Lonely Tree: A Memoir of Home, History and Madness
By Cameron Clifford (West Hartford, VT: The Clifford Archive, 2024, pp. 244, paper $20.00). Every book is an adventure; its title a seduction. Readers usually meet key characters in the… Read More
Two Vital New Books about Vermont and Vermonters
Two books that look at… Read More
UVM Health Network Board Accountability – Facing Facts
Photo courtesy UVM Medical Center Vermont’s VTHC911 coalition is exploring the drivers behind Vermont’s soaring healthcare costs. Newsletters to date have focused on the high operating costs of the University… Read More
Open our governance doors to young people
Public domain image “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And… Read More
In response to the commentary by former UVM President Tom Sullivan regarding healthcare in Vermont.
Courtesy UVM Medical Center Hospital A recent VTDigger commentary by UVM former President and current professor of Law and Political Science Tom Sullivan raises debatable questions. In his “meeting of… Read More
