There’s hardly an industry in Vermont that doesn’t need more and better trained workers. Even Farm to Table, an organization that supports locally grown food, is promoting more agricultural workforce development.

I never met Ursula K. Le Guin. But her essays about the inequities of gender helped me navigate this man’s world.

I never met Ursula K. LeGuin. But her essays about the inequities of gender helped me navigate this man’s world.

Current headlines about the resignation of Andrew McCabe, Deputy Director of the FBI, and other controversy surrounding the US intelligence establishment, have reminded me of a recent disturbing story that got little notice beyond brief mentions by CNN and ABC. The online investigative news publication The Intercept had reported that Erik Prince, former head of the private military contractor Blackwater , was proposing a private spy network.

We’re in the middle of a national flu epidemic. And it’s sobering to remember that fully half of those who died during the great Flu Pandemic of 1918 , one hundred years ago, were both young and healthy.

Last week US Fish and Wildlife officially declared the eastern catamount extinct... kaput, vanished... the last official sighting having been in 1938, in the bleak outback of northern Maine.

Sadly, last week’s shooting at a rural Kentucky high school that left two dead and eighteen injured didn’t seem to hold our attention for very long.

Recent federal policies are putting our international standing at risk.

Wikipedia, operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, is arguably one of the first stops anyone makes in online research.

Orwell and Churchill were two of my boyhood heroes. Both men regarded politics, not as dirty work, but as an honorable calling, capable of changing the affairs of people for the better and protecting both the individual and free speech. In fact, Churchill once declared that "A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure."