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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Kicking cans…
Licensed iStock Vermont struggles with a lack of leadership or, at best, a confusion about what leadership is. The fundamentals of leadership are straightforward: A leader listens, elicits diverse opinions...
Up in smoke… “The American Dream”
The Pied Piper of Washington Growing up in Morrisville in the ‘50s, there was a general belief that hard work and integrity were a path to financial security and maybe...
A Conspiracy Theory? You decide.
O wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in 't. — Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I A new book...
Democrats: A Roadmap to leadership…
Stop dithering, we can’t be all things to all people; if we try, we become nothing to anybody. If our party is to mean something to the people we want...
Time to stand up for democratic principles….
Image courtesy of Facebook New York City, the largest city in the United States, with a population of 8.4M people or 2.5% of the country, just chose a young progressive...
Vermont’s nonprofit sector… a study in governance
We’re supposed to be “a nation of laws,” with an evolving body of statutory law established by the Congress and state legislatures that also put in place regulatory boards such...
“Something There is that doesn’t love a wall.”
42,000 Vermont tax dollars per year are spent to keep one offender behind a wall. This is four times what the most expensive public school systems spend annually to educate...
Minding Our Own Business
The State’s “Please Look at Me” strategy — trying to attract major manufacturing or service employers to Vermont — is under-funded and out of date and, quite frankly, hopeless. Vermont’s...
An Insular Nation
We are outside security. Through thick glass, we watch our son hoist his backpack onto the x-ray machine and wait to be summoned by a uniformed TSA agent through the...
Where’s the Plan?
There is a “term of art” called the economic development toolbox.” In a “tad da” designed to delight Vermonters weary of plentiful $9.00 per hour jobs, rising fuel and health...
Who Should Lead?
What should we look for when we choose a leader? The very person in your small town who really wants to be the cop is probably the one individual you...
Vermont’s 2500 Non-profits
Vermont has over 2500 non-profit organizations. They are either mission-driven or overhead-driven. They are focused either on achieving their stated mission or on their survival. There is a great deal...
