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We should be wary of political candidates who try to evoke non-specific fears in us about terrorism, impoverishment or racial conflict. They do so to divert us from the rational… Read More

First, let me say this is a wholly non-partisan commentary. Having said, that, I was indeed raised in a Democratic family and have always thought of myself as a liberal,… Read More

To varying degrees, the needs of a society are met by three de facto socio-economic resources: private sector goods and services, government services and not-for-profit organizations.  I say “organized” only… Read More

A central, if unspoken, ideological argument today is about government, whether it is good or bad? Government of course is neither. It is simply an organizing principle around which societies… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

I have been listening to the Supreme Court’s torturous deliberations regarding the concoction of toxic pharmaceuticals our society uses to kill criminals in the states that still believe the death… Read More

Sometime in the next decade the US will follow the rest of the civilized world and have some form of national health care system. The lead up however, will be… Read More

Sometime in the next decade the US will follow the rest of the civilized world and have some form of national health care system. The lead up however, will be… Read More

First it was Rumsfeld, then Bolton, then Wolfowitz, Karl Rove and now Gonzalez. If there’s a constructive lesson to be found in all of this, I think it has to… Read More

I am going to talk about everyone’s least favorite subject, not death, the other one. At its best, taxation is how a citizenry funds the services it feels are be… Read More

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… Read More