My brief email to Senator Welch.
I can't forget Jan 6 and won't vote for Trump. I can't forget the debate and can no longer vote for Biden. The slim path of hope is the one you've recommended; we ne More...
Today’s Common Sense call-in radio show with Bill Sayre on WDEV will be "school choice should replace Vermont's ineffectual, inequitable, and unconstitutional ed funding formula”, The show is at 11AM on FM 96.1, 96.5, 101.9, and AM 550 and Live Streaming from More...
The current educational funding formula is not constitutional, effective, or equitable.
Unconstitutional
“Children who live in property-poor districts and children who live in property-rich districts should be More...
What has the legislature done?
Several years ago the Vermont legislature passed now notorious Act 127 which made major changes in how state funding for education is raised and allocated. The act didn’t come into effect until this budge More...
The Vermont legislature is playing an expensive shell game… and planning worse. The “equalized pupil” is the shell under which the pea is hidden.
OK. We all know there is a property tax crisis in Vermont. The average amount Vermonters pay in educational property tax is going to More...
My best friend Tim Hayward died early Sunday morning. Over the last 50 years, he has been the greatest force for good and effective government in Vermont that you never heard of. He has done more for Vermont and all of us here than most people you hear about daily. Governor Phil Scott’s statement More...
We should mitigate climate effects.
We’ve had a run of bad weather. Severe flood events that typically occur once a century seemed to have bunched up in the last decade or so. Even though there is debate over how much of this extreme c More...
Undergrounding power lines is good energy, environmental, economic and customer service policy.
Green Mountain Power, Vermont’s largest utility recently More...
Climate change hysteria is distracting from other man-made environmental problems.
Maui
Climate change is mentioned prominently in almost every story about the fires in Maui. More...
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