When is a Vermont co-op not a co-op? When it's a CO-OP!
News stories about the rejection by state regulators of the proposed “Vermont Health CO-OP” have focused on the organization’s financial weakness, the fact that its rates would be higher than those of...
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Shame on You, Dr. Thomas Keens of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
You went on the Today show and said:"We would prefer that there not be more than one CF [i.e., cystic fibrosis] patient in a single school."You are a pediatric pulmonolist at an accredited CF care...
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Vermont to Gut Key Program to Help Poor CF Patients . . .?
In this post are: (1) Talking Points from the CF Foundation, (2) the CFF's written comments to the Vermont Department of Health, and (3) my comments. As I have noted on facebook, the comment deadline...
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Dear Ledyard Bank: Keep Your Five Bucks
Ledyard National Bank sent me a postcard last week, offering me five bucks to become an accomplice in the ongoing war – over money, of course – between banks and retailers. My response: No thank you....
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Why I have a bad attitude about IT people
I shouldn't do this, but . . .I have a longstanding and notoriously bad attitude about the people who work in the IT department of whatever institution employs me. Here's a great illustration of why...
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13 Reasons Why I Want a Fourth Term on the Board of the Hanover Consumer...
Fifteen years ago, when it became my enviable fate to live in the Upper Valley, I happened to discover that my local grocery store was a consumer cooperative.The lightbulb did not just go off over my...
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Memo to Vermont Law School: Make the Bold Architectural Choice!
Architecturally speaking, Vermont Law School (VLS) is confronting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – one that should not be squandered in quest of the lowest common denominator.At issue is which of...
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A few choice words about the 2010 Vermont AIA awards
Of paleontology and excellence in Vermont architecture
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Farewell, Upper Valley Community Credit Union
Sentimentality, and nothing more, made me a member of the Upper Valley Community Credit Union (UVCCU). Sorrow, and nothing less, will cause me to vote against the plan to sell our credit union to...
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A Great Miracle Happened There
Seventy-five years ago this evening, a group of about 30 people gathered at the Hanover High School for a potluck supper and discussion. The conversation culimated in an agreement to form the Hanover...
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Greetings from the Pequod
Fellow Mariners:Captain Ahab here, harpoons at the ready. We are in relentless chase of three especially demonic and pernicious cetaceans, each with a distinctive color. They have such cute names...
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Jame Frazer Stirling: Why Did The Greatest Postmodern Architect So Often Fail...
Sarah Williams Goldhagen is the architecture critic of The New Republic. If they published more of her stuff, I would actually subscribe. Meantime, check out Jame Frazer Stirling: Why Did The Greatest...
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The Get-Lost Effect: A Record House in Vermont
Vermont is not famous for interesting and innovative architecture, unless your idea of a remarkable new building is one that is trying to look like it was built 200 years ago. So the eyebrows naturally...
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Oregon's $20 Million Study Hall: A Sunshine Law Parable for Vermont
Sunshine is a virtue in most every field of human endeavor, but possibly nowhere more so in the realms of architecture and law.When designing new buildings, architects typically strive to admit as much...
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Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening: Mission Accomplished!
Here is a real occasion for dancing in the streets! Thanks to Texas, which began on December 1, every child born in the United States -- or at least every child born to responsible parents who...
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Wild in the Streets! Vermont Health Department's Verdict on Youth
Some excerpts from a recent press release from the Vermont Department of Health:Youth Risk Behavior Survey Shows Changing Perceptions of Unhealthy BehaviorsFewer young Vermonters (8th to 12th graders)...
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E coli and Cooperation
Is it the absence of presence -- or the presence of absence?I refer to the front page story in today's Local Daily Newspaper about the latest recall of ground beef as the result of e coli...
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Chicago News Co-op: Good News, Bad Name
Jim O'Shea, former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, deserves credit for trying to pull news reporting out of its death spiral, at least in his city. But the nonprofit he has organized has a...
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Ten Reasons the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society Doesn't Need Term Limits...
1. We already have term limits -- they're called elections.2. We already have term limits -- it's called death. Nobody can serve forever, even if elected.3. There's no clamor for the opportunity to...
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Farewell Forbes Field
Recently it has been my good fortune to spend a total of 14 days in Pittsburgh, a city I had never visited before -- and which turned out to be much greener and interesting than I had imagined it to...
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