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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.

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What has happened to Vermont?

What are the cohesive elements in Vermont’s 247 towns and cities? What sustains their human connection, commerce, and community? Though born in New York City, I grew up in Morrisville...
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UVM Health Network Hospitals… a coup d’état or a coup de grace?

Courtesy UVM Medical Center Hospital During the week of June 9th, Dr. Sunny Eappen consolidated all leadership power among the UVM Health Network’s (UVMHN) owned hospitals under his direct control,...
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Winter Travel

I have just turned onto I-89 in Waterbury, grateful to finally be leaving route 100. I am almost half way home and the snow is getting worse. It is beautiful...
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Vermont Business Environment

The ideas that business is intrinsically good or bad or can flourish only in a wholly unregulated environment are equally simplistic and dangerous. Business is no different from any other...
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Common Sense: Corrections and Farming

While it’s important to find ways to do the work of state more efficiently, we must also seek out new ideas to generate prosperity. Vermonters have good ideas and good...
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Vermont: State of Freedom

In the 14 years before joining the original colonies in 1791, Vermont was a feisty, independent republic with allegiance only to itself and the motto “Freedom and Unity.” Today it...
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Freedom and Unity

I’ve been reading the interim report of the Council on the Future of Vermont’s look at what Vermonters hold sacred as well as what they fear about recent trends in...
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Vermont in America

The feisty independence of Vermonters is in our DNA. In our brief flirtation with nationhood, Vermont was, for fourteen years, its own Republic before it joined the original thirteen colonies...
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Controlling Health Care Costs in Vermont

Years of pecking away at a keyboard churning out op-eds in which I typically carp about aspects of society have come home to roost. Like many repetitive motion workers, I’ve...
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Managing the Past?

If we are not guided by a vision for the future, we end up managing the past. The problem with simply managing the past is that opportunities pass us by...
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The Vermont Bond?

Vermont state and municipal bonds are vetted and offered through the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank to larger markets where, typically, high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors then acquire them as a...
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Vermont Business Future

The ideas that business is intrinsically good or bad or can flourish only in a wholly unregulated environment are equally simplistic and dangerous. Business is no different from any other...
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