Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
May Newsletter from Magic Hill
Stories and News From Magic Hill An Ode To May Greetings, I’ve been burned enough this spring not to offer the promise of more clement weather and, like us all,...
Childcare…a distraction?
Public education is Vermont’s largest and best investment. And by re-imagining it as a publicly financed continuum of learning, we could deepen its value and cost-effectiveness. In today’s world, where...
Deckchairs…
“We must agree to disagree” is a fair resolution to any discussion and such was the case with a thoughtful discussion I had recently about S. 107, a bill to split the Agency...
We Can’t Afford Our Future
Periodically, we must relearn old lessons. A key such lesson is Franklin’s “Ounce of prevention…” adage – as relevant today as when Franklin applied it to fire prevention 250 years...
Knee-jerk Legislation Makes Bad Law
With the highest incarceration rate in the world, American liberals and conservatives are crossing ideological lines to question why. For every 100,000 citizens, China jails 165, Russia 450, and the...
Prison, a barometer of our collective failures?
The scale of incarceration in our country is more than a gauge of domestic crime, it is a socio-economic indicator, telling us how we are doing on the key metrics...
Potty Politics
If you’re wondering why our bridges collapse, our trains collide, security lines stretch on, and our courtrooms have no judges … it’s because “potty politics” has become a more important...
Is Being Rich a Sin?
I grew up in the arms of the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Morrisville and, although I fell out with the church in my teens, I maintained a deep friendship...
Beware the Mt. Peculiar Jabberwalker
The Mt. Peculiar Jabberwalkers With apologies to Lewis Carroll on the last day of the 2015-16 session ’Twas quiblous in Peculiar Town Rambunction and dysfunction, As Ceres eyed the legisphere’s...
False Economies
As the legislative biennium winds down, it’s time to consider what happened, what didn’t, and more important, why? Many Vermonters are vocal about wanting their government branches to change how...
Vermont’s EB-5 Tragedy
There are many actors in the Jay Peak/Q-Burke tragedy playing out on our Northern Vermont stage. The unfortunate investors whose investments were by law “at risk,” have been clearly deceived...
News and Democracy Are Not Free
“Information wants to be free” is a mantra from the sixties that’s wreaking havoc with democracy. Our culture is at stake as digitization and the Internet largely eliminate the need...
