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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.

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Kicking cans…

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...
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Antisemitism – Anti-Netanyahu: A false equivalency

Photo courtesy BBC I usually write about Vermont, but even here we’re complicit in the horror being perpetrated on Gaza unless we speak out. In several conversations recently, I’ve expressed...
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Up in smoke… “The American Dream”

The Pied Piper of Washington Growing up in Morrisville in the ‘50s, there was a general belief that hard work and integrity were a path to financial security and maybe...
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A Conspiracy Theory? You decide.

O wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in 't.   —  Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I A new book...
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Democrats: A Roadmap to leadership…

Stop dithering, we can’t be all things to all people; if we try, we become nothing to anybody. If our party is to mean something to the people we want...
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Time to stand up for democratic principles….

Image courtesy of Facebook New York City, the largest city in the United States, with a population of 8.4M people or 2.5% of the country, just chose a young progressive...
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