OPINION: Why consider rejecting the HUUSD budget? Reason #3: Affordability
If you consider education spending within the larger context of the financial condition of our communities, state and nation, should we really be looking at increasing education spending? Or should we consider a freeze on spending and insist that our legislature and school districts find ways to do things a lot differently?
OPINION: Why consider rejecting the HUUSD budget? Reason #1: Fairness
There are plenty of people in the community representing how responsible the proposed school budget is. But I have heard from numerous people with a differing perspective. I would like to offer some data and comparisons related to fairness.
LETTER: There’s an alternative to ‘a powerhouse team’
The same team that was just touted as wielding extraordinary power and influence in Montpelier … they are our best choice for correcting the damage they helped create?
Op-Ed: The veto session – a call to Waterbury’s legislators from a voting citizen
On Monday, June 17, the legislature will hold their veto session in hopes of overriding many (or all) of Gov. Phil Scott's vetoes. I am publicly calling for all of our Waterbury legislators NOT to override these vetoes.
Opinion: Act 127 & real spending per pupil
I find the presentation of information that the public has been getting, while possibly technically correct, to be misleading at best and deceptive at worst.
Commentary: Responding to H.72 and overdose prevention centers
Let me start by disclosing that I am a lifelong Vermonter and consider myself a fiscal conservative and a social moderate. (In years past I would have thought that description to be a somewhat typical Vermonter.)