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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

  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

I take my inspiration for our future from Vermont’s sage motto, “Freedom & Unity,” expressing the balance between what I must do for myself and my family and what I… Read More

  Photo courtesy VTDigger A basic goal of civil government is that its citizens should have a secure place protected from the elements in which to live and perhaps raise… Read More

  Vermont State House   On Election Day, as I confronted my voting ballot in the Hinesburg Town Hall, I was daunted to find that for the first time there… Read More

Vermont State Capital Governor Phil Scott pulled off a trifecta win in the latest election. The “most popular” governor in the country, a non-MAGA, conservative Republican in a liberal state,… Read More

Life is stressful. No amount of wealth or privilege protects us from stress. In fact, there’s reason to believe that privilege, insofar as it isolates us from a shared humanity,… Read More

Courtesy Morrisville Centennial Library I oppose book bans. Having said that, I don’t believe freedom is an absolute. History has taught us that we need commonly agreed upon limits to… Read More

Shutterstock I think the heat-drunk garter snake living in our mailbox is an omen. As I lower the dented cover and reach gingerly inside to get our mail, I wonder… Read More

  Shutterstock image Like a good novel, our lives have a narrative arc, during which we are actively participating in and relevant to our world. We are born, rise slowly… Read More

Champlain Valley Union High School Do we honestly believe we overpay our children’s teachers? There is a logical disconnect in our discussions about local school budgets driving property tax increases.… Read More

                         If we zoom out and look with cynicism at the health care crisis in America, we see a… Read More