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Commentary: Will Taxing the Rich Really Work?

October 6, 2026

By Kaj Samsom Campaign season in Vermont has renewed talk about tax fairness, specifically raising state income taxes on high income Vermonters. When new taxes are offered as a solution for our…

Letters to the Editor, Nov. 19, 2025

November 19, 2025

by sarah

We Need to Solve This! To the Editor: Your recent article “Only 94 Shelter Beds Available for 220 Homeless in Central Vermont This Winter”…

Letters to the Editor, Nov. 5, 2025

November 10, 2025

by sarah

Dream Big, Montpelier! To the Editor, Montpelier has a unique opportunity in the property on Country Club Road. Creating a planned community with a…

Patients Deserve Prices and Protection from Medical Debt

November 6, 2025

by sarah

By Ginger Vieira Americans with diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and other chronic conditions are on the front lines of the U.S. healthcare system. We work…

Housing Costs Have Gone Up but Incomes Haven’t: What’s the Solution?

November 5, 2025

by Cassandra Hemenway

When we brainstormed how we wanted to cover housing issues in central Vermont at the beginning of the year, our editorial team at first…

State of Mind: On the Cusp

November 5, 2025

by Larry Floersch

Each year on November 11 we celebrate what was once called “Armistice Day” — the day in 1918 the armistice, or truce, that “paused”…

Renting in Montpelier

November 5, 2025

by sarah

By Jessica Oparowski The first apartment I rented in Montpelier in the Meadows neighborhood was 2009 and my rent came to under $700 a…

Letters to the Editor, Oct. 15, 2025

October 16, 2025

by sarah

Vermont Cannot Afford to Step Back from Fair and Impartial Policing To the Editor: We are writing on behalf of the Central Vermont Chapter…

The Way I See It: My Apprenticeship With Grief

October 16, 2025

by Anjali Budreski

I stood — looking out at a silver sea, waves swirling around my ankles — more than a year after my father’s passing. The ocean…

Commentary: Montpelier Must Finish Its Homework Before Hiring a Developer

October 16, 2025

by sarah

By Stephen Whitaker Montpelier has a chance to do something extraordinary at Country Club Road: build a walkable, resilient village that adds homes, supports…

History Corner: Settling Berlin

October 14, 2025

by Carla Occaso

Berlin was settled by a hunter and a handful of Revolutionary War soldiers and their families, according to multiple accounts. One of the first…

Hunger Won’t Disappear by Ignoring It

October 6, 2025

by sarah

By Anore Horton The recent decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to cancel the Household Food Security in the United States report is…

Letters to the Editor, Oct. 1, 2025

October 1, 2025

by sarah

Downstreet Pays Taxes To the Editor: I want to correct a recent opinion piece that stated Downstreet Housing and Community Development does not pay…

A State of Mind: What’s in a Name?

October 1, 2025

by Larry Floersch

As I was driving through Colchester last week I noticed one of those elaborate carved wood signs at the end of a heavily wooded…

From the Editor’s Desk: Freedom of the Press is Under Attack

September 30, 2025

by Cassandra Hemenway

“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” So reads the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and here…

Political Violence Takes Many Forms

September 18, 2025

by sarah

By Dan Barlow I’ve been sitting with the news of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and what it says about how we talk about “political violence”…

History Corner: The Earliest Schools in the Village

September 16, 2025

by Carla Occaso

The settlers in Montpelier’s village began teaching school right from the beginning, according to an account in “Montpelier: The Capital City’s History from 1780-1976”…

Letter to the Editor, Sept. 17, 2025

September 16, 2025

by sarah

Vote ‘Yes’ for Career Center Building To the Editor: I would like to voice my support and encourage others to support the proposed expansion…

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Northeast States Must Resist Trump’s Expensive Swerve Back to Fossil Fuels

September 8, 2025

by sarah

By Jonathan Dowds President Trump and his administration are forcing Americans to increase our dependence on the fossil fuel industry at the direct expense…