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Guest editorial: The bigger issue

Posted on June 7, 2018 |
By Emerson Lynn



Dan MacArthur is a member of the Marlboro School Board, which oversees the town’s elementary school. The school has 76 students, or a little over eight students per grade. St. Albans City Elementary, by comparison, has almost 800 students.

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Guest editorial: Will 'sober centrists' ever return to debate?

Posted on June 4, 2018 |
By Emerson Lynn



As we step onto the first stage leading to the general election in November the thought is that an unpopular president is giving rise to our better selves; we’ve tasted the extreme and the unconventional and found it lacking. We want the political pendulum to swing back toward the center.

But what if it doesn’t? What convinces us that the way we communicate is about to bring us back to something that resembles normalcy?

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Editorial: Does racial diversity panel follow common sense? No

Posted on April 2, 2018 |
By Emerson Lynn



The Vermont Senate recently passed legislation intended to “promote racial justice reform throughout the state by mitigating systemic racism in all systems of state government and crating a culture of inclusiveness.”

The legislation, S.281, would create a cabinet level position — the chief civil rights officer — and would be appointed by a five-person civil rights advisory panel. The position would be independent of the governor’s office.

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Guest editorial: Vt.'s female reps don't have a voice in education policy?

Posted on February 15, 2018 |
By Emerson Lynn



Vermont’s teachers feel picked upon by the decision makers in Montpelier and according to a Vermont NEA-commissioned study released last week, they think the reason is gender-based. Almost three-quarters of the teachers in Vermont are women and their fates are being determined by men who cannot empathize with their needs.

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Guest editorial: Timing could not be worse for education funding bill

Posted on February 5, 2018 |
By Emerson Lynn



The House Ways and Means Committee is pushing legislation that would change the way Vermont finances education. The impetus is political. Property taxes are high, and rising. Legislators want to rush in to ease the pain.

The timing could not be worse.

What the proposal does is shift some of the burden from the property tax to the income tax. The particulars have not been solidified, so we don’t know what the rates would be, or who would be affected.

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Guest editorial: The Legislature and Vermont's core challenge

Posted on January 15, 2018 |
By Emerson Lynn



The Vermont Legislature returned to work with a single goal that should prevail over all others — the need to redeploy and reallocate the resources we have to break us out of the low-growth cycle we’re in.

Everything else is a sideshow.

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Guest Editorial: Vermont's Crisis — childcare

Posted on July 10, 2017 |
By Emerson Lynn



The traditional childcare provider model seems to be falling apart, and the effects are pushing Vermont, and counties like our own, into a full-blown crisis. Last year, Franklin County lost 42 registered programs and two childcare centers. Richford and Alburg have lost half their providers. There are essentially no available slots for working parents with infants and toddlers.

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Guest editorial: The Vermont state college challenge

Posted on May 4, 2017 |
By Emerson Lynn



Vermont State Colleges Chancellor Jeb Spaulding has a single message for Vermont legislators: The five-college system has been cut to the bone, jobs have been pared and expenses cut, and if the $4 million he’s asked for does not materialize, and if state support continues to be meager, legislators may be put in the position of deciding which VSC campus is most expendable.

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Guest editorial: Is that all there is, Mr. Milne?

Posted on October 6, 2016 |
By Emerson Lynn



If we had to come up with the lyrics to summarize Republican Scott Milne’s campaign against incumbent Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, they would be contained in the late 1960’s song by Peggy Lee, “Is that all there is.”

The song is a soulful lament drawn from a long-ago writer who, staring at the ocean, could see no horizon. The ocean in all its vastness just went on and on, prompting the question, is that all there is?

And so it is with Mr. Milne. 

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Guest editorial: Vermont is ducking the real debate over jobs

Posted on September 2, 2016 |
By Emerson Lynn



If, as the Georgetown University Center on Education and Workforce predicts, 69 percent of all jobs in New England by the year 2020 will require postsecondary education, and if only slightly more than half of Vermont’s graduating high school seniors enroll in college the following fall, then what is the fallout from the obvious gap between the jobs available and the lack of people qualified to fill them?

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