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Clippings: Online communities are still reality

Posted on June 30, 2011 |
By Andrea Suozzo



On Friday evening, I sat glued to the action in the Senate chambers a hundred miles away in Albany, N.Y.

No, wait. I was actually in my living room at home, with “Arrested Development” playing on the TV, the shouts of kids running up and down the street wafting in the open window.

But if my surroundings were serene, the Twitter stream coming in over the phone in my hand was anything but.

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Around the bend: Haste can lay waste to risk-takers

Posted on June 30, 2011 |
By Jessie Raymond



“Why, instead of doing things the right way, do we do them in a way we know will end badly?”

When my friend Jenn called me the other day with this question, it wasn’t merely academic.

Jenn recently became a beekeeper. Over the course of just a few weeks she already had come to think of her thousands of honeybees as little buzzing friends. Watching their goings (sans pollen) and comings (fully pollen-loaded) was giving her hours of pleasure.

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Clippings: Cup runneth over for Boston fans

Posted on June 23, 2011 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



Someday, Cleveland, you, too, will rock and join Boston.

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Politically thinking: GOP seeks alternative to Romney

Posted on June 23, 2011 |
By Eric L. Davis



Last week’s Republican presidential candidates’ debate in New Hampshire was the kick-off to a campaign that will end in August 2012 in Tampa, when the GOP nominates its candidate to oppose President Obama’s bid for re-election. Although the Republican contest is still in its very early days, some key themes of the campaign are emerging.

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Between the Lines: Taking a hard look at single-payer health

Posted on June 23, 2011 |
By Gregory Dennis



There are plenty of reasons to be worried about Vermont’s march toward single-payer health care.

Federal health care reform may allow states to cover virtually all health care costs within their borders. But of course there’s no guarantee such a system would work. It’s never been tried in the U.S.

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Clippings: A youthful malady, multiplied by age

Posted on June 16, 2011 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



“Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.”  I’m reminded of that 1971 David Bowie song — the title, at least; not that I ever got the lyrics at age 17 when it first came out or 39 years later. Something about “time may change me, but I can’t trace time.”

Certainly time changes people, but what is this notion about not being able to “trace time”? Is it that you can’t change what has been; you can’t relive the moment? That time’s not a do-over?

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Around the bend: Third-place finish takes the cake

Posted on June 16, 2011 |
By Jessie Raymond



“I’d like a cake shaped like a giant margarita.”

So declared my stepson’s girlfriend last month. For her 21st birthday, she wanted a 3-D cake shaped like a margarita glass a couple of feet tall.

Kids these days.

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Clippings: You can't measure your journey in miles

Posted on June 9, 2011 |
By Ian Trombulak



I suppose that one of these days I should thank my parents for convincing me to apply to Middlebury College. Like many kids who grow up in Addison County, I started to crave a change of scenery sometime around my junior year in high school. When it came time to apply to college, the last thing I wanted was for my big move to be from one side of Middlebury to the other — after all, my sister had gone all the way to the exotic lands of Connecticut for college.

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Politically Thinking: Clock ticking for GOP challengers

Posted on June 9, 2011 |
By Eric L. Davis



While November 2012 seems a long way off, candidates who are serious about challenging Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Peter Shumlin will need to decide soon whether to enter those races. Campaign organizing and fund-raising for one of Vermont’s top-ticket offices now takes a year or more.

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Between the Lines: In digital times, local papers will survive

Posted on June 9, 2011 |
By Gregory Dennis



This thing you are reading may look like a newspaper. But in a sense it’s actually a dinosaur.

Those of us who were brought up on print still love our dino-papers. We will probably continue reading them in varying degrees until the day we die. Indeed, it’s been said that the best hope for the newspaper industry is Americans over 50.

Which means the business in its present form has got maybe another 30 years before it’s the stuff of legend.

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