Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
A Goal to End Mission?
Conservatives want to reduce government services that alleviate the effects of poverty, addiction, crime, illiteracy, and disease. Liberals want to increase them. But what if both were wrong and our...
Can We Legislate Morality?
We pride ourselves on being a nation of laws, perhaps too many laws. Much as we try, we can never translate moral obligations or prohibitions into legal ones. Moral codes...
Banking with Felons?
The news was stunning. Barclays, Citibank, J.P. Morgan – Chase, RBS, Bank of America – Merrill Lynch, and UBS, all pled guilty to illegal currency and LIBOR rate manipulation and...
De facto Monopolies and Customers
Antitrust prosecutors recently issued subpoenas to major airlines to explore possible collusion – but all they had to do was ask air travelers. Anti-trust law is complicated. The price-fixing portion...
Human Rights and the Human Migration
Two predicates for civil society and peace in our world – neither of which we’ll see in our lifetimes – are widespread, localized legal and judicial systems that support social...
We Can Do Better Helping Vermonters In Need (It’s Not About Money)
How does a tiny state with a $5.5 billion budget – half of which is allocated to help struggling people and communities, a philanthropic community that contributes almost $3M to...
An Equitable Flow of Profits
A market vertical is the integration of related goods and services in an effort to control a specific sector of the market. A more critical business vertical, however, is the...
Sexual Behavior
Any male not now asking himself about his own behavior towards woman and children is extending the risk to both into future generations. Sexual abuse rolls forward from generation to...
The Drug Scourge: A More Effective Strategy
A substantial amount of money is poised to address the issue of Vermont’s bloom in opiate addiction. And this time, I hope we’ll do something more effective than having agencies...
Truth, Propaganda and Art
They say truth, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. But this doesn’t mean certain truths aren’t verifiable. Much depends on the granularity and scope of a statement....
Paul Ryan: Patriotic American Women Should Breed More Workers & Consumers???
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan has suggested that our economic recovery could be stoked by American women simply having more children. According to the Center for Disease Control, or CDC,...
Our American Arrogance
Recent federal policies are putting our international standing at risk. Traditionally our moral standing as a world power lay in our persistent efforts to exemplify democracy, support international development, welcome...
