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I write about Vermont. Others with greater knowledge than I cover the national landscape. My feelings about how we’re doing as a nation are informed by the writers I follow… Read More

By Cameron Clifford (West Hartford, VT: The Clifford Archive, 2024, pp. 244, paper $20.00). Every book is an adventure; its title a seduction. Readers usually meet key characters in the… Read More

                                                  Two books that look at… Read More

  Public domain image “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And… Read More

Courtesy UVM Medical Center Hospital A recent VTDigger commentary by UVM former President and current professor of Law and Political Science Tom Sullivan raises debatable questions. In his “meeting of… Read More

I take my inspiration for our future from Vermont’s sage motto, “Freedom & Unity,” expressing the balance between what I must do for myself and my family and what I… Read More

  Photo courtesy VTDigger A basic goal of civil government is that its citizens should have a secure place protected from the elements in which to live and perhaps raise… Read More

  Vermont State House   On Election Day, as I confronted my voting ballot in the Hinesburg Town Hall, I was daunted to find that for the first time there… Read More

Vermont State Capital Governor Phil Scott pulled off a trifecta win in the latest election. The “most popular” governor in the country, a non-MAGA, conservative Republican in a liberal state,… Read More

Courtesy UVM Medical Center Hospital We don’t like change. Change threatens those of us who are privileged to have a part in the status quo, even when it’s dysfunctional and… Read More

Shutterstock In the ‘90s, Vermont was among the states with the lowest per capita spending, but since 2010 it’s been consistently among the highest (see slide 14). So, to envision… Read More

Shutterstock I think the heat-drunk garter snake living in our mailbox is an omen. As I lower the dented cover and reach gingerly inside to get our mail, I wonder… Read More