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I have no right to speak on behalf of the town of Townshend. I do, however, have a right to speak to the recent, rambling comments by Senator Jeanette White regarding Townshend's decision to take its website down.
While some believe I controlled the website and the content, I did not. I built it, I maintained it, and I am the only person in town who has been involved with it from the beginning to its current archived state. Any and all decisions about content were up to the Selectboard.
I wish to insert some facts into the discussion and this is a perfect time to do it since I can, through this medium, speak not only to Senator White but to all Windham County candidates vying for any position in Montpelier this 2014 campaign season.
In the fall of 2005, I was sitting at a Selectboard meeting and Kit Martin - then chairman, if my recollection is correct - asked, “We really should have a website, can you do one for us?”...
I am extremely disappointed in Rep. Richard Marek (D-Windham 5). This has nothing to do with the fact that he has chosen not to run, nor do I have any extreme issues with how he has or has not represented the district over his tenure. My disappointment is in...
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I logged into Facebook recently, and I observed that a friend had “Liked” a page for an organization that I had spent a few years working with. I automatically went to the page and clicked “Like” as well, without paying much attention. Within a few minutes, a mutual friend had also clicked the button. I then congratulated the organization for making the public-relations move of putting up the page and asked who was in charge of it. A short time...
At the end of April and the beginning of May of this year, both the Vermont House and the Vermont Senate unanimously passed a bill that will change the way credit card companies interact with merchants in this state. U.S. Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) has introduced legislation in Washington that will do the same nationally. This is good news, especially for small businesses. But legislation needs to be reinforced by action on the part of the buying public. Last year,
It could have been the beginning of the national health-care debate that this country has needed for decades. Instead, the great health-care reform debate of 2009 has turned into the usual political circus of fear, ignorance, and distorted sound bites. The anti-government reactionaries are showing up in large numbers to yell down any attempt by members of Congress to explain what is being proposed in Washington health-care reform legislation. Defense of what is really in proposals has been difficult because...
