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Editorial: The 19-foot option for rail bridges; If it's viable, nothing else beats it

Posted on November 14, 2016 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



A public meeting this Thursday by the Vermont Agency of Transportation to update residents on the Middlebury downtown bridge/rail project will hopefully do more than review a plan that has come under fire. Rather, it is hoped the AOT will come prepared to answer questions posed in an 18-page document drafted by Bristol attorney James Dumont on behalf of several Middlebury residents that skewers the proposed four-year project.

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Editorial: Inconceivable! And yet there is hope

Posted on November 10, 2016 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton left much of the nation hanging its head in dejection and disbelief. It was for many, to use the famous single-word line in the movie Princess Bride, “inconceivable.”

“I simply can't believe it,” said one local millennial. “America actually chose the schoolyard bully... hate reigns in America. I’m so disappointed and disillusioned about what it means to be an American.”

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Trump set to win: Does he represent the change Americans want?

Republican candidate Donald Trump looks likely at this hour to pull off a major upset, defying the polls and pundits’ predictions, to beat Democrat Hillary Clinton. It will be a new America. Never before has the nation been led by someone so unfamiliar with the laws of the land; so unfamiliar with foreign affairs; so shallow on policy prescriptions that the nation has no real sense of what his policies are or might be; so ill-equiped to lead that the future of this country and its allies is put in danger.

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Editorial: Vote for Hillary's credibility; vote against the demagogue

Posted on November 7, 2016 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



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Independent endorses Minter, Zuckerman, other candidates

Posted on November 3, 2016 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



The Addison Independent has a long tradition of endorsing candidates for statewide office for a single reason: we believe informed opinion stimulates the public conversation and challenges all voters to examine their own reasons for supporting the candidates of their choice. While we stand by our choices, the intent is not to suggest we are “right,” but to demonstrate why our reasoning reflects our perspective.

To that end, here are our choices for statewide offices, and the Senate race in Addison County.

 

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Guest editorial: Why your vote counts – a lot

Posted on October 31, 2016 |
By Haviland Smith



Those of us who are not highly partisan voters are faced this year with a choice between two unusually unattractive candidates. Some of us will take a deep breath, suck it up and vote for the one we believe to be less unattractive. Others say they simply will not vote at all. 

The polls would seem to show that many of those who have made the decision not to vote are younger people who facing their first or second elections. 

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Editorial: Before you vote the issues, know the candidates

Posted on October 27, 2016 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



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Editorial: Rail/bridge plan lacks clarity

Posted on October 27, 2016 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



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Editorial: Party over country? Citizens who won't dump Trump

Posted on October 24, 2016 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



Here’s a question for the Republican Party faithful who have yet to reject presidential candidate Donald Trump: How far would you go?

If you knew his intention was to suspend our democratic system and our rule of law, arm the police and military to restore “law and order” — at least until we got all the “bad hombres” out of the country, and the Islamic terrorists and the drug lords and “all the many, many bad people” he keeps talking about — would you still cast your vote for him?

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Editorial: Does VTrans take advantage of towns' desire to 'get-along'

Posted on October 20, 2016 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



Here’s a statement that many town selectboards may have trouble accepting: The Vermont Agency of Transportation can make decisions that are not in the best interests of a community and presses its interests over theirs.

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