Editorial: What Vermonters expect of their new governor

Posted on January 7, 2010 |

• Editorial

By Emerson K. Lynn

Politics is nothing more than understanding ambition and the conditions that produce it, and there is a surfeit of both as the Vermont Legislature begins its work.

It will be a session unlike any other. Legislators will be faced with a $150 million hole in the budget that needs to be plugged. It has an unemployment trust fund that is about to run bone dry. And it is dealing with a state economy that is anemic, at best.

The general conclusion is that we must learn how to do more with less, or, as the governor suggests, to do less with less.

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