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Guarding the border – a team effort |
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 |
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Reelin' in the Years By Scott Wheeler As a chronicler of Northeast Kingdom history who happens to live in a border community, I have had the opportunity to interview a sizable number of people who grew up along the Vermont/Quebec border. For that matter my first book was called, “Rumrunners and Revenuers: Prohibition in Vermont.” The book captures stories of people who found themselves on different sides of the Prohibition law — 1920 and 1933 — when this country tried to ban alcohol. |
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Immigrants are still fighting for ‘liberty and justice for all’ |
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 |
By JAIME GONZALEZ
My parents are Americans. They are citizens of this great country, which they are proud to call home. They are also immigrants.
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“Darling, a prostitute saved my life!” |
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
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By W. CLIFFORD-JONES, M.D. What a way to leave this planet! A recent report reveals that an elderly pensioner, having taken an erectile dysfunction drug (ED), died in a brothel in Lugano, Switzerland, after a night with a prostitute. This is great promotion for the makers of ED drugs. But not so good if their effectiveness puts your name in the obituary column!
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Will we come into Heaven via death and divine pardon or spiritual growth? |
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
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By PRONCELL JOHNSON Over the course of my adult life, I have been very grateful for the early religious training I received from the members of the little church in my hometown of Sulphur Springs, Texas. While some of the teachings were not always spiritually correct, they reflected the general beliefs of my community. Most of the beliefs taught me in these early days would be reviewed over and over again. Some would be totally discarded, some reinforced, and others replaced as I gained enlightenment.
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School taxes may soon get less fair and more complicated |
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
By PAUL CILLO
Montpelier should be trying to make the education tax system simpler and fairer. Instead, in the haste to cut General Fund spending, Gov. Jim Douglas would make it more complicated and less fair — increasing taxes on middle-income Vermonters and lowering them on those with higher incomes. Sound crazy? It is.
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