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Opinion: Are leaders born or raised?

Posted on April 11, 2019 |
By Jan Demers



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She sang for the U.S.O. in Vietnam going places Bob Hope wouldn’t go. She entertained at the Purple Onion in San Francisco following in the footsteps of the Smothers Brothers and Phyllis Diller. She was kicked out of Brigham Young University for refusing to stop the work on the Equal Rights Amendment. Nina Wyatt Harrington received her B.A. and M.B.A from San Francisco University working all day in computer sales and going to college and singing at cabarets at night.

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Victor Nuovo: Questioning common sense

Posted on April 11, 2019 |
By Victor Nuovo



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Editor’s note: This is the 13th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition.

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was a political activist, revolutionary, and pamphleteer. English by birth, he became an American citizen and a citizen of the French Republic by choice and played a key role in their respective revolutions. He is best remembered for his revolutionary writings, Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason.

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Letter to the editor: 'Check engine' light is a headache

Posted on April 11, 2019 |
By Whitney Mayo



This is in response to Dave Sharpe’s March 25 letter in the Addison Independent concerning the check engine light.

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Letter to the editor: Middlebury needs a Mexican eatery

Posted on April 11, 2019 |
By Dick Beamish



Thank you for focusing your April 4 issue on climate change, the number-one threat to the future of life on our planet. Thank goodness for Bill McKibben, who has probably done more than anyone else to bring global attention to this impending global catastrophe and what we can still do to mitigate it. And thank goodness for newspapers like the Addison Independent for editorials and news coverage devoted to “This biggest issue of our times.”

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Letter to the editor: Citrus county provides respite

Posted on April 11, 2019 |
By David Spencer



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Editorial: No time to waste on climate inaction

Posted on April 8, 2019 |
By Angelo Lynn



As 120 hearty souls make their way from Middlebury to Montpelier for the five-day Next Steps climate walk, the purpose will come into focus on the steps of the state capital this Tuesday: There’s no more time to waste on political inaction.

“Climate delayers aren’t much better than climate deniers,” Tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, a few weeks ago. “With either one if they get their way, we’re toast.”

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Opinion: Why take the college application process seriously?

Posted on April 8, 2019 |
By Andrea L. Torello



Like many of you, I cannot stop reading about the massive college admission scandal dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues” by the FBI. The FBI. It’s hard to believe getting into college is now associated with undercover operations and federal offenses.

As I dig through the details of parents, coaches, test proctors, and one morally bankrupt college admission counselor, I am appalled and furious at the self-absorbed people involved in this unbelievable betrayal of college admission.

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Letter to the editor: Hearing set to explore future of Brandon trails

Posted on April 8, 2019 |
By Sharon Stearns



Please come to the public hearing on April 8, at 6:30 p.m., at the Brandon Town Hall to save our public trails in Brandon. Please also write to the Brandon Selectboard at 49 Center Street, Brandon, VT  05733, to express your wishes to keep our Brandon public lands available for public use. The Selectboard  is considering a request to give away a trail on Pearl Street.

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Letter to the editor: Consider the benefits of using solar energy

Posted on April 8, 2019 |
By Peter Grant



I hear people say that they can’t afford solar.

Wrong.

It costs more to keep paying the current electric rates at around $0.15/kWh than to get solar electric panels.

However, this past year has been very cloudy.

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Letter to the editor: Invest in community programs that help the poor

Posted on April 8, 2019 |
By Donna Bailey



Being poor is hard. Asking for help is hard. Meeting new people and navigating tough systems when you are at a low point is demoralizing. Asking for welfare to feed and house your baby makes you a failure in many people’s eyes. Systems to help people have their own challenges: the people who have, tell people who don’t have, what to do. So many people who live in generational poverty have been failed by these systems — schools, doctors and state systems. Not because they are bad or lazy or dumb, but because the systems are not made for or by them.

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