With the election over and the Democratic Party in control of Vermont government, I suggest that efforts be made to support government that helps all without offending those of us who are more right of center politically than the left-of-center Democrats.
With that in mind, let me mention an evening get-together where strong, liberal, part-time Vermonter, and Democratic Party member John Kenneth Galbraith came up to me and said, “Bud, I know you are right of center politically, but you might like to know that my two best friends in the world are George McGovern [who had run for president as the Democratic Party candidate] and William F. Buckley Jr. [a leading conservative thinker in America for many years].”
My reaction was that John Galbraith was a class-act person who could think outside the box. We could use more of that.
Let me suggest a few legislative ideas that would benefit most Vermonters:...
The introduction to the excerpts of the transcript of Seth Andrew's sentencing hearing mentions: “[W]e hope the judge's words - and Andrew's words to the court - serve as some sense of closure.” But Seth Andrew and his actions had nothing to do with the closing of Marlboro College.
On or about July 22, Marlboro College trustees transferred the remaining Marlboro College endowment of $20.250 million to Emerson College in Boston and sold the 366-acre campus including over 50 buildings to Democracy Builders for $225,000, with Democracy Builders assuming a 40-year, $1.5 million note to the Marlboro Music...