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In response to the commentary by former UVM President Tom Sullivan regarding healthcare in Vermont.
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 the minds” call to consensus,… Read More
Environment
Green Burial in Vermont
Courtesy Vermont Forest Cemetery Bob Stannard’s recent commentary about death and dying in VTDigger prompted this octogenarian friend to do some thinking. My wife and I have… Read More
Policy & Politics
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
Policy & Politics
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
Policy & Politics
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
Policy & Politics
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
Health Care
Preventing chronic toxic stress in our communities
Life is stressful. No amount of wealth or privilege protects us from stress. In fact, there’s reason to believe that privilege, insofar as it isolates us from a shared humanity,… Read More
Health Care
Healthcare regulation elicits blowback, Vermonters need to respond
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
Education
Book bans, censorship... what's next?
Courtesy Morrisville Centennial Library I oppose book bans. Having said that, I don’t believe freedom is an absolute. History has taught us that we need commonly agreed upon limits to… Read More
Health Care
Healthcare… A Way Home
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
Policy & Politics
Rural Free Delivery (RFD)… Rest in Peace (RIP)?
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
