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This commentary is by Skip Lisle, a resident of Grafton, a wildlife biologist and president of Beaver Deceivers LLC. By some miracle, we have an animal called a beaver that builds, maintains and improves rich wetlands. However, damming behavior also creates challenging and sometimes expensive beaver-human conflicts. Partly because of their rarity, which has been…

This commentary is by Seth Steinzor of South Burlington, a poet, woodworker and retired attorney. He worked for 32 years in the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. The uproar over a trans student on the high school volleyball team in Randolph evokes memories for me of my own involvement in our society’s complicated, slow recognition that…

This commentary is by Karl Meyer of Greenfield, Mass., a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists who has written hundreds of articles on issues affecting the Connecticut River.  Living rivers flow downstream, but not the Connecticut River in Franklin County in Massachusetts, where FirstLight’s 50-year-old Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station reverses miles of flow…

This commentary is by Life LeGeros, a professional educator who lives in Duxbury. He’s on the steering team of the Waterbury Area Anti-Racism Coalition and is a member of the Harwood Union school board. The views expressed here do not represent any organizations with which he is affiliated. Community means being there for each other,…

This commentary is by Brenna Galdenzi of Stowe, president of Protect Our Wildlife. The recreational trapping season in Vermont started on Oct. 22 and runs through March 31. This includes the use of baited steel-jawed leghold and body-gripping kill traps, as well as cage traps that are set underwater that drown multiple animals at once. …

This commentary is by Joe Patrissi of South Burlington, who began his state employment in 1970 as a corrections officer, then commissioner of corrections from 1986 to 1991 and deputy commissioner of economic services from 2005 to 2010. He was executive director of Northeast Kingdom Community Action from 2010 until he retired in 2018.  I…

This commentary is by John McClaughry, vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute. He has served in both the Vermont House and Senate. Next Tuesday, Vermonters will go to the polls to choose 30 senators and 150 representatives, and of course six statewide officeholders (omitting the two congressional races.)  I have long been a firm…

This commentary is by George Sales of St. Johnsbury, a member of the VSECU board of directors. There is a lot involved when companies or organizations decide to go through a merger or to pursue an acquisition. Likewise, there are as many confusing details and mistruths about them.  In most cases, acquisitions could either be…

This commentary is by Anthony Pollina, an outgoing Washington County state senator and chair of the Vermont Progressive Party. It is no secret that most Vermonters support abortion rights. But this year we can affirm our support for reproductive freedom by voting to support Prop 5/Article 22, a constitutional amendment that will enshrine reproductive rights…