Emerson Lynn

When the Green Mountain Care Board agreed this week to allow BlueCrossBlueShield to raise its healthcare premiums on individuals by 19.8 percent and 22.8 percent on small businesses a strange thing happened: Nothing.

Former President Barack Obama has an unlikely friend in Vermont when it comes to the “hot button” issue of housing shortages. That would be Gov. Phil Scott who said Mr.

The central task of all who represent us, whether in Montpelier or Washington D.C., is to help guide us toward prosperity, which means coming to our aid when challenged and looking ahead to help us avert what threatens us.

If things in Vermont’s healthcare world don’t change Vermonters will continue to see an unacceptable increase in their health insurance premiums and will end up subsidizing our hospitals with an additional $700 million to $2.4 billion over the next five years, according to Dr. Bruce Hamory, of Oliver Wyman, an international consultancy funded by the Legislature to find ways to improve the state’s health care system.

Emerson Lynn If things in Vermont's healthcare world don't change Vermonters will continue to see an unacceptable increase in their health

For the second week, we have reprinted letters from supporters of the hospitals in Randolph and Newport articulating the same fear: Their hospitals have been targeted by a healthcare consultant as places that need to be closed or reconfigured. The authors make the same argument: Close down our hospitals and you close down our towns.

In 1934 a law was passed that prohibited foreigners or foreign-owned corporations from owning a license to run U.S. radio and television stations. It was passed as a means to

Vermont could spend $400 million to $460 million less than it currently spends on its schools and see a “substantial” improvement in student outcomes if it followed the guidance offered

In the weeks leading up to November’s general election, we are gobsmacked by the level of divisiveness, misinformation, and mistrust in our political discourse, whether it is local, statewide or national. The question is how a nation that’s so divided can be healed.

Politics is largely the exercise of staying in one’s lane. For obvious reasons. When the practice is abridged, people notice, the party’s leadership cries foul. The chattering class sifts through