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Geezer and Golden Gals in Hinesburg
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 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… Read More
Our young people are leading in the arts
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
Vermont, can we go it alone?
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
In the Shadow of the Lonely Tree: A Memoir of Home, History and Madness
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 Vital New Books about Vermont and Vermonters
Two books that look at… Read More
Open our governance doors to young people
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
In response to the commentary by former UVM President Tom Sullivan regarding healthcare in Vermont.
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
My New Year’s Wish List for Vermont
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
The Three Hs: housing, hunger and healthcare
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
We need to rethink our systems of governing
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
Real leaders don’t amplify differences, they bridge them.
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
