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Now and Zen
“Everything is resolvable at the end. Unless it isn’t.” This time, it seems, it isn’t. The words came from Shap Smith, heretofore known not as a Buddhist philosopher but merely as the Speaker of the...
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Winners and Losers
OK, who won? Now that the palavering, posturing, and pontificating of the 2010 session of the Legislature is over, it’s time for at least a preliminary evaluation as to who did and did not come out...
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Climate Whine
The head of a statewide business organization claims that the state’s “bureaucratic, arbitrary, time-consuming and expensive regulatory system” weakens the state’s “business climate.” A small...
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Five Notes (With One Apology)
Note One: An Apology– Thanks to the storms of Tuesday evening, the News Guy kept getting disconnected from the Internet. In the rush to finish writing, and to get the post into the system before the...
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Game On
The fight is on, and it promises to be a humdinger. Attack and counter-attack. Quick response. Thrust and parry. Jab and hook. Give no ground or quarter. The best defense is…well, you get the picture....
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Taxing Questions
Do Vermonters really pay (as a percentage of income) the highest property taxes in the country, as Brian Dubie says in his economic policy document? Earlier this year, a study by the Tax Foundation...
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Taxing Questions II
Would you like to know how much lower your taxes would be if Brian Dubie gets elected and his tax cut plans are enacted? Sorry, that information is not yet available, possibly not even to Brian Dubie....
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Ad-Watch I
“Truth in Advertising,” is a slogan, a policy, and a law, not a contradiction in terms. It just seems that way. Truth in political advertising may still be a slogan and a policy. But it is more often a...
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Vermont’s Fine Whine
Peter Shumlin wants to “put Vermont back to work,” because “thousands of Vermonters are struggling to find good paying jobs,” and “Vermont is facing the highest unemployment rate in 30 years.” So they...
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Unintended Consequences
This will be a somewhat abbreviated post because the News Guy moderated a debate among Northeast Kingdom legislative candidates last evening and there is only so much one fellow can do in one day. Oh,...
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