To the editor: Our Constitutional democracy is imperiled. The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to allow Louisiana to redraw its Congressional districts is emboldening other southern states to gerrymander their maps in favor of Republicans prior to the 2026 election. Please join a dedicated group of volunteers in writing “Get[Read More…]
Bob Hawk
Narcisist in chief
To the editor: The Trump administration won approval of an unprecedented design by the Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday, March 19. The Washington Post wrote on Friday, March 20: “(it) is an extraordinary break with centuries of democratic aversion to depicting living presidents on the nation’s money”. It wasn’t[Read More…]
Ask for safeguards
To the editor: The Trump administration and Pam Bondi, attorney general of the U.S. Justice Department, believe that ICE agents should have total immunity in all their brutish and illegal actions. If Bondi succeeds in passing funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without safeguards, our First and Fourth[Read More…]
Trump’s private standing army
After the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, the president told them to “Stand down, and stand by”. Those rioters, including the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters were all later tried and convicted of criminal actions in courts of law by their peers,[Read More…]
History Repeats
To the editor: It took Hitler 53 days to disable and dismantle Germany’s constitutional republic after he became that country’s Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Within two months he had completed the concentration camp, Dachau, and rounded up prisoners: first political opponents, then trade unionists, gypsies, artists and Jews. It[Read More…]
It’s not enough
To the editor: It’s not enough to complain to a neighbor about the erosion of our constitutional rights and the dismantling of our social safety net, environmental laws and government agencies protecting our health. It is not enough to protest in the streets, even though it is a start and[Read More…]
Despair is not an option
To the editor: Teach-in on citizen activism, Sept. 27 The daily onslaught of terrible news, both domestic and international, is overwhelming, crushing even: An economy that is not affordable for all, the dismantling of our democratic republic, the continued erosion of our constitutional rights, death and destruction in Ukraine and[Read More…]
Obliterated
To the editor: Obliterated: the right of the people through their elected representatives to decide if their country should go to war. Obliterated: the independence of Congress as a separate branch of government which has the sole right to declare war. The servile minions who took an oath to defend[Read More…]
Trampled U.S. Constitution
To the editor: The Trump’s administration action to bomb the nuclear processing sites in Iran without Congressional authorization is in violation of the War Powers Act passed in 1973. Contrary to his dismissing it as a “one off” attack, it is a declaration of war. The power to attack a[Read More…]
Kick Out the Clowns
To the editor: Join your neighbors in Hardwick on Saturday, June 14, at 11 a.m., at 101 S. Main St. (Front Seat Coffee) to protest the illegal suspension of due process, the destruction of our social safety net to provide a tax cut for the billionaires, and the Congressional Republicans[Read More…]
Stop the Billionaire Coup
To the editor: Nationwide there will be coordinated protests to the billionaire political elite’s take-over of our government, and the Trump administration’s disregard for the rule of law, and the separation of powers upon which our democratic republic stands. For those unable to attend the Wolcott, St Johnsbury or Montpelier[Read More…]
Police Officers, Judicial System Disregarded
Donald Trump, a convicted felon himself, pardoned the 1,500 January 6 rioters, essentially giving the finger to our judicial system and the brave police officers who defended the Capitol on that infamous day.All of those felons had their day in court: a lawyer to represent them and a trial by[Read More…]
