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This commentary is by Don Keelan of Arlington, a retired certified…
Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a commentary, follow the instructions here.
This commentary is by Tom Evslin of Stowe, an entrepreneur, author…
Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a commentary, follow the instructions here.
This commentary is a joint effort by 19 House representatives and…
Julia Ward Howe. Photo from Library of Congress
Social activism takes the patience of a saint.
Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore and William Lloyd Garrison must have known that when they arrived in Vermont in 1870. The renowned reformers were here to fight for one of the most controversial causes…
Chad Miller, president and chief technology officer at Verde Technologies, works with a sample of photovoltaic film at a lab at the University of Vermont in Burlington on Thursday, March 9. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
One of the biggest challenges in working with the sun’s energy comes from its bounty. It is everywhere and it…
Winter enthusiasts in Smugglers Notch were limited to 90 minutes of parking on weekends and holidays last winter, a policy that won’t change going forward. File photo by Gordon Miller/Stowe Reporter
Editor’s Note: This story by Aaron Calvin was first published by the Stowe Reporter on May 25.
The Agency of Natural Resources will let…
The operator of one vehicle and a 7-year-old traveling in another vehicle died Saturday night following a head-on collision in Sheldon.
Vermont State Police said in a press release early Sunday morning that dispatchers were alerted to the accident on Route 105 near Lumbra Road around 9:15 p.m. Saturday. A preliminary investigation found that a…
JAKARTA — Top officials from Indonesia and Malaysia, the world’s biggest palm oil producers, will meet European Union policymakers in Brussels amid a diplomatic standoff over a new deforestation rule that threatens to shut the commodity out of the EU market. The rule, formally adopted by the EU on May 16, bans the trading within…
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court curtailed the federal government’s powers to regulate private property under the auspices of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Court in Sackett v. EPA held that “the CWA extends to only those “wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are ‘waters of the United States’ in their…
Last month, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important decision in the area of property rights, development exactions, and the Fifth Amendment. In Knight v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Tennessee, case number 21-6179, plaintiffs James Knight and Jason Mayes challenged the constitutionality of a City of Nashville’s “sidewalk” ordinance, which…
