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  In this season of caps and gowns, change is afoot. The architecture of ivy-decked privilege is ceding ground to a still-evolving but more accessible and affordable vision of higher… Read More

Licensed iStock Vermont struggles with a lack of leadership or, at best, a confusion about what leadership is. The fundamentals of leadership are straightforward: A leader listens, elicits diverse opinions… Read More

          There’s been a lot of blither written on both ends of the political spectrum about how government is not the answer to our accelerating challenges.… Read More

The ‘Triple G’ group, more sedately called by the Carpenter-Carse Library staff “Senior Meet-up,” gets together every Monday from 1 PM to 2:30 PM in the community room of the… Read More

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… Read More

Dark times in America… Even as Vermont’s only a small part of the whole, our own Senator Bernie Sanders is adding disproportionate reach to our small footprint at a critical… Read More

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