42,000 Vermont tax dollars per year are spent to keep one offender behind a wall. This is four times what the most expensive public school systems spend annually to educate children and almost twice as much as the per pupil cost of public higher education. Meanwhile, our federal tax dollars are being used to build [...]
In the 14 years before joining the original colonies in 1791, Vermont was a feisty, independent republic with allegiance only to itself and the motto “Freedom and Unity.” Today it is the same landmass of mountains and river valleys 80 miles wide and 160 miles long with 608,000 people, fewer than those living on the [...]
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"Bill Schubart’s Vermont stories of a mostly-forgotten time and place are fresh,authentic, funny in places and sad in others. He knows his corner of the GreenMountains inside out and writes with honesty and grace about its people."
— Howard Frank Mosher, author of Disappearances, Mary Blythe, and On Kingdom Mountain
March 03, 2008 