Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Vermont in America
The feisty independence of Vermonters is in our DNA. In our brief flirtation with nationhood, Vermont was, for fourteen years, its own Republic before it joined the original thirteen colonies...
Controlling Health Care Costs in Vermont
Years of pecking away at a keyboard churning out op-eds in which I typically carp about aspects of society have come home to roost. Like many repetitive motion workers, I’ve...
Book: The Lamoille Stories
—Howard Frank Mosher, author of Disappearances, Mary Blythe, and On Kingdom Mountain Every year on the Fourth of July, Jeeter’s wife Lou struts in the town parade wearing suspenders made of jumper cables...
Use It or Lose It
One casualty of the endless roll-up of entertainment, media and consumer electronic companies into ever larger “media conglomerates” is culture itself. An article in the New York Times two years...
Managing the Past?
If we are not guided by a vision for the future, we end up managing the past. The problem with simply managing the past is that opportunities pass us by...
The Vermont Bond?
Vermont state and municipal bonds are vetted and offered through the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank to larger markets where, typically, high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors then acquire them as a...
Get Out of the Kitchen
I’ve lived in Vermont since just after World War II and, though I can’t count myself a Vermonter by birth, I know a thing or two about the state –...
News and Citizen Review
The Lamoille Stories Uncle Benoit’s Wake and Other Tales from Vermont By Bill Schubart If you didn’t get a copy of the new book, The Lamoille Stories, for Christmas, quick! go...
Press & Critical Response
“Bill Schubart’s Vermont stories of a mostly-forgotten time and place are fresh, authentic, funny in places and sad in others. He knows his corner of the Green Mountains inside out...
A Vermont Ethics Commission?
As the legislative biennium winds down, it’s time to consider what happened, what didn’t, and more important, why? Many Vermonters are vocal about wanting their government branches to change how...
Darcy and Father LeFarge
According to his lifelong friend, Père Renaud, who was with him at his bedside when he died, Father LeFarge’s last words were, “I have never forgotten the face of any...
Belle Galloway, Bovine Activist
Call me Belle Galloway. I am a cow and I speak for my sisters. I am the public policy director of the VBA, the Vermont Bovine Association. My organization represents...
