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This commentary is by Cheryl Charles, Ph.D., chair of the Westminster School Board, initially elected in 2016 in the early days of implementation of Act 46. She has served continuously since then — first on Westminster’s board; then as vice chair of the forcibly merged Windham Northeast school board for the towns of Athens, Grafton…

This commentary is by Cathy Davis of Jericho, board president of Hunger Free Vermont, and 15 businesses and organizations, listed below, signed on to this commentary. Vermont families with children were five times more likely to experience hunger in 2021, according to a survey from the University of Vermont. And as the Covid-19 pandemic continues…

This commentary is by Maura Collins, executive director of Vermont Housing Finance Agency. The mission of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency is to finance and promote affordable, safe and decent housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income Vermonters. Embedded in that mission is the need to consider the holistic cost of renting and owning, meaning not…

This commentary is by Dan DeWalt of South Newfane, an artisan and activist interested in democracy and the Constitution.  The rich and powerful seem to share at least one trait. They have a remarkable ability to ignore the real-life consequences of their pronouncements/acquisitions/policies.  President Biden puts on his earnest face and speaks with great empathy…

This commentary is by Sally Achey, a Republican from Middletown Springs; she also represents Pawlet, Rupert, Tinmouth and Wells, and is a member of the House Energy & Technology Committee. For the past two months, my committee, the House Energy & Technology Committee, has been taking testimony on and debating a bill to establish a…

This commentary is by Steve Comeau, a resident of South Burlington who is a retired business intelligence developer. A missing component of the Vermont Climate Action Plan is to plan for adding new advanced nuclear power as part of electricity used in Vermont over the coming decades.  The plan ignores nuclear power as part of…

This commentary is by Nial Rele, a resident of Vergennes. Last Tuesday, for the first time in my 32 years, I voted in an election. I have lived in the United States for nearly all of my adult life and was granted citizenship last summer. What makes this even more of an honor is that…

This commentary is by Sarah McMillan, who lives in Cambridge, New York, and has taught social studies at Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester for 15 years. For the past four years, she has also been the school’s food program coordinator. As we have all discovered, one of the key things the pandemic has revealed…

This commentary is by Stephen Whitaker of Montpelier, an author who has worked for 30 years on integrating planning, government transparency and accountability, public records access and more recently utility networks resiliency. This month, he was a candidate for mayor of Montpelier. Last month, VPR reported Gov. Scott to have said the following in a…