DUMMERSTON-Every time I see a Trump sign or flag, I'm shocked and dismayed. The extremist remains of the Republican Party decided that a serial sexual assailant, a convicted felon, and a president who planned and executed an attempted coup of our democratic republic deserves to be president again.
Because of a corrupted Supreme Court, Donald Trump is yet unconvicted for his crimes to conspire to steal a presidential election!
So, no, I don't think it's "educational" to pretend that there are two equally legitimate candidates for election this year, as is being argued by some in the discussion about the display of Trump and Harris election signs at Dummerston School. There is only one legitimate candidate, and it is not Trump!
As a teacher, I have great respect for the challenge of teaching civics in the current climate.
DUMMERSTON-Kate Casa's response to John Ungerleider's letter concerning local debate about the horrific state of affairs in Gaza definitely crossed the civility line from my perspective. Instead of simply staying with her defensible points about Israeli occupation and military assault on Palestinians and the intractability of the conflict, she...
A recent political cartoon pictures President Biden dressed as Santa Claus standing in front of a present-laden Christmas tree with a family in their living room. His presents include things such as reduced unemployment/more people employed, inflation down to pre-pandemic levels, low gas prices, etc. The family is depicted...
A recent review by the Reformer of the current slate of Republican candidates for local and statewide government offices got me thinking. Not one of the them repudiated Donald Trump; perhaps they weren't asked. Even before watching the last of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, it occurred to me that any candidate who doesn't condemn Trump and his plot to overthrow the government and the U.S. Constitution should automatically be disqualified for public government service. My reading of the coy...
Wendy Harrison is the most experienced of the three candidates on the Democratic Party primary ballot for Windham County Vermont Senate. All three are good candidates with policy positions that don't differ a great deal. What distinguishes Wendy from the other candidates is her decades of government experience at the town and state levels. We need someone like Wendy Harrison who can hit the ground running in a Senate seat and work well with other colleagues and also take a...
When Becca Balint was launching her first run for Vermont Senate, some years ago, my wife, Christie Herbert, and I had the distinct pleasure of hosting a meet-and-greet gathering for Becca. Supporting Becca was an easy decision back then, seeing how well-suited she was for political leadership at the state level as a senator. The decision now for us voters is equally clear. Becca Balint deserves our vote on Primary Election Day Aug. 9 to send her to the general...
Recently, friends and I, some former Republican voters, have generated a list of what the initialism GOP, which once stood for “Grand Old Party,” really stands for now. In light of so many GOP congresspeople willing to perpetuate the Big Lie of “election fraud,” refusing to denounce the attempted coup, and traitorously violating their oaths to the Constitution, my buddies and I generated this list of what this faction of the GOP really stands for today. We hope this can...
I'm so thankful for people like Mike Mrowicki who speak plainly and clearly about the enormous gap between sane, honest, rational, and ethical people and those who support Donald Trump. Mr. Mrowicki's recent Legislative Update [“In search of common ground,” Dec. 2] laments the possibility of finding common ground between Democrats and ReTrumplicans, and he couldn't be more correct. Now that Trump has attempted a coup, his latest assault on our democratic republic, the gap is clear between traitors to...