Defunding teachers might actually be a step forward for the future of American education, Tom Evslin says.

If you can march in a protest or a Fourth of July celebration, you can march to the voting booth.

School kids’ lives matter, too. If schools remain closed, the suffering will be worst among Vermont’s poorest families.

The Vermont Agency of Transportation just can’t decide which graffiti are politically acceptable before choosing to erase it, or not. That’s government regulation of political speech.

It’s the selectivity of which Black Lives Matter that troubles Tom Evslin.

The pandemic this year has straddled Vermont and is pummeling us with both hands. Our Legislature must subdue the pandemic, get our economy up and running, and educate our kids. All else is an expensive, negligent distraction.

The institutions that have collapsed as a result of Covid-19 were already well on their way to failure. The virus just gave them the final shove. What can be learned from this?

The internet that flattened the globe is now helping us flatten the curve.

For years we’ve resisted tele-commuting. Now we’ve done it. And have learned that maybe we don’t need that darned office, after all.

California – you mean so well. But your forestry practices and refusal to update power lines have resulted in forest fires that emitted more carbon that the rest of the state did for a whole year! Smarten up, will ya?