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A proposed new state motto for Vermont
Today, March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state. It seems appropriate to write about a piece of legislation I hope will pass this year. One of my state Senators, Jeannette White, wrote a column...
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The Republican obsession with women’s bodies and sex
Haven’t posted for quite a while now. Maybe it is the end of winter doldrums (I can almost say I survived my first Vermont winter which wasn’t nearly as bad as winter in the Boston I left behind.) or...
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Scandal in the Vermont legislature
The Vermont legislature opened yesterday. There are many pressing issues: school reform, how to pay for expanded Medicaid, the drug epidemic, and legalizing marijuana. But overriding everything is...
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Scandal in the Vermont legislature, Part 2
Senator Norman McAllister has been suspended from the Vermont Senate. The vote, which was not on party lines, was 20 to 10. My Senators split, one for and one against. Vermont Public Radio reported...
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Democracy at the local level
Last year I attended the reunion of the Class of 1970 at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. (That was the class I actually graduated with even though I am technically 1969.) Our seminar reading was...
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Trump Day
It is very early morning here in Vermont and I have a busy day planned. I don’t intend to watch the transfer of power from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, but will spend time dealing with local school...
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A bit of Vermont women’s history
Clarina Howard Nichols’ voice cracked in nervousness. Her heart pounded. She felt faint, and she briefly rested her head on her hand. But she kept speaking, and her words — indeed her very presence —...
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Woman power is the future
A lot of people predicted that women were going to change America’s political history in January of 2017. But pretty much no one anticipated that they’d be doing it as leaders of the resistance. On...
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I’m married to a pessimist. He’s been reading Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and is convinced we are now well into the decline. While I’m not quite so pessimistic, I admit I have...
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