Germans have mixed feelings about their secondary education system; it’s controversial. Yet, in the U.S. we idealize the German system.
On Aug. 30, Porter Medical Center, along with our two University of Vermont Health Network partner hospitals in Vermont, will present its 2025 budget to Vermont’s health care regulator, the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) for approval.
When I knock my knuckle on this table it feels solid. Yet, I know that it is almost completely empty spaces with tiny atoms and their electron clouds.
As we approach our 40th anniversary, we are taking stock and creating our MALT Vision 2040. Of course, we will remain committed to our educational offerings as we continue our vision-setting process.
The 2024 Legislative session started and finished the same way — with universal concern about significant looming educational tax increases.
As the Middlebury Area Land Trust approaches its 40th anniversary, we are at an important moment. Over the past three decades, our organization has grown from a small advisory committee to an essential part of our community’s fabric by conserving more tha … (read more)
If we zoom out and look with cynicism at the health care crisis in America, we see a remarkably effective business plan: Grow the burgeoning health care business even larger from its current $4.5 trillion per year in spending, and do so using two other lu … (read more)
It is inspiring to see the amount of interest recently shown for the bandstand on the park in Bristol. However, I am disappointed to hear of negative opinions from some. Without intending to hurt feeling of anyone, I would like to offer an alternate viewp … (read more)
It’s Groundhog Day. Gov. Scott vetoed the yield bill, again leaving Vermont school districts adrift. The reason: all the school budgets voters approved add up to more than Gov. Scott wants them to spend.
Vermonters seem to have a natural wariness of government. Vermont’s Republican Century had just ended 16 years earlier with the surprise election of Democratic Gov. Phil Hoff in 1962.
The current plan to reform the notorious CLA — common level of appraisal — looks a lot like Nixon’s blanket. It doesn’t actually change how things work, it just makes them look a little better to the public.
Act 250, Vermont’s visionary development statute, is over 50 years old. It is often credited as one of the primary reasons that our landscape looks the way it does.
Members of the school board have tried to gather information as to why this budget proposal, with an increase of less than one percent in spending per weighted pupil, and an equalized tax rate decrease of less than one percent, was unacceptable to 59% of … (read more)
Open government mattered to all of us during the height of the COVID pandemic.
As we strive to build a state that works for everyone, it’s a harsh reality that almost 75% of Vermont workers lack access to paid family and medical leave.
