Vermont Republic

Ah, Vermont! The Green Mountain State, where verdant peaks meet picturesque valleys, and where world-famous maple syrup flows like liquid gold. When it comes to visiting this bucolic northeastern state, one of the most common questions tourists ask is, “Do I need to rent a car?” Given Vermont’s semi-rural nature …

Arraignments and all non-emergency hearings in Vermont courts were postponed since early March, but administrators in Vermont courts, while waiting for the order of judicial emergency in response to the pandemic to be lifted, implemented a new court filing system on April 20. Since then, courts in Windham, Windsor, and …

Lots To Consider When it comes to planning your perfect wedding, you’re going to have to consider a variety of details. It’s probably best to start the planning process at least a year out from when the ceremony takes place. Try to at least get things taken care of no …

According to a news report published in December 2018, Vermont’s homeless population is, sadly, on the rise. The Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness reports that there is homelessness in both sheltered and unsheltered situations. In 2016, there were 1102 homeless people, in 2017 1225, and during 2018, there were 1.291 …

I consider myself to be a huge fan of MSNBC talk show host Chris Hayes. His Saturday – Sunday morning political news analysis talk show known as Up w/Chris Hayes is hands down the best news commentary program on American television. It is arguably the only TV show to which one …

Economist Paul Craig Roberts recently wrote that “the United States is an immoral country, with immoral people and an immoral government.” Continuing he added that, “Americans no longer have a moral conscience. They have gone over to the Dark Side.” We are currently engaged in three highly visible immoral wars …

Hardly a week goes by in which we do not learn of yet another attack by an American drone (a pilotless remote-controlled aircraft) on either Afghan or Pakistani civilians.  These sinister instruments of death are controlled by well-trained, high-tech killers seated in air-conditioned comfort in front of sophisticated instrument panels …

When I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1940s, Abraham Lincoln was viewed by most white Southerners with a certain awe, even though he had obliterated the South during the Civil War. Most Americans, whether they be black or white, liberal or conservative, believe that Abraham Lincoln was our …

As I watched all the muscle flexing and prideful posturing of both candidates for President during the debates, a quote from one of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s sermons came to mind: “God’s victory means our defeat, our humiliation; it means God’s derision and wrath at all human pretension of might, at humans …

There he was at Ground Zero in New York City, Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama, basking in the glory of the cold-blooded assassination of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which he had ordered a few days earlier.  It reminded me of the celebratory response of white racists in New …