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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
COMMENTS DELIVERED BY FORMER CHAIR, BILL SCHUBART
Below are comments delivered by former chair, Bill Schubart (1998-2000) during Chairmen’s Circle panel at VBR’s 2012 Summer Membership Meeting on June 14, 2012. At 67, and barely able to...
Balancing Self-interest and Community Interest
All tax codes have winners and losers. Overtime, different classes of taxpayers advocate steadily for self-serving changes that eventually complicate and corrode the tax system. Legislators call these various deductions...
The Tyranny of the NRA
I have no aspirations for political office, so free speech comes quite easily. The massacre in Arizona ought to have raised the volume on our hushed national discussions about gun...
Why “Fat People?”
Even as we are born into families, compete to be accepted in school cliques, marry, join teams and clubs, live in neighborhoods, and compete socially, in some fundamental ways we...
Chronicles of Alternative Energy: Heating Your House with Chickens
The concept may come as a surprise to some, but the notion is an old and venerable one. In Medieval times, hovels were usually heated with people, animals and a...
How Government, Business, & the Non-profit Sector Could Work Together
Recently, the Vermont Community Foundation published a status report on Vermont’s non-profit sector. In a straightforward, data-driven report, it dispelled certain myths and quantified how significant the sector is in...
UVM Quarterly Essay: Apppreciation of Exeter Professor George Bennett
BILL SCHUBART ’68Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence. On the strength of a sonnet I had written at Exeter, I was...
Government Cuts
Capitals around the country are rife with facile rants about cutting government, when the real task is balancing budgets. Will leaders do the hard work of applying shared principles to...
Why Taxpayers Should Support a National Broadcast System
The current political rhetoric surrounding the bill to muffle NPR and to limit the ability of its affiliate network to survive, much less prosper, misses the important philosophical question of...
The Sadness of Earbuds
Earbuds? Nonsense, when I was young, we couldn’t fit our stereo system in a 16-foot truck, much less our ears. Admittedly, we had a sound re-enforcement company that provided sound...
Review of “Fat People” by Michael Prager
“Fat People” Submitted by Michael on Wed, 04/20/2011 – 10:42. compulsive eating Food writing One reason skeptics scoff at the notion of food addiction is that they eat, and so...
