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Social Culture
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
Book Reviews
Happy Poetry Month: Two Superb new Vermont Collections
I often ask myself if depression is circumstantial or anatomical. Although it runs deep in my family, current events certainly play a role, and… Read More
Arts and Humanities
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
Media & Press
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
Book Reviews
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
Health Care
UVM Health Network Board Accountability - Facing Facts
Photo courtesy UVM Medical Center Vermont’s VTHC911 coalition is exploring the drivers behind Vermont’s soaring healthcare costs. Newsletters to date have focused on the high operating costs of the University… Read More
Policy & Politics
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
Health Care
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
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
