On Saturday, 160 young Vermonters and their parents joined me and my staff at the Vermont State University in Randolph for our third annual Youth Chess Day. The reason we hold a Youth Chess Day is to encourage young people to learn how to play an intellectually challenging game that is many hundreds of years old and is enjoyed throughout the world.
It is no great secret that our country is divided politically. I would hope, however, that all Americans and Vermonters come together to support our democratic way of life and oppose the very aggressive movement toward authoritarianism that the Trump administration is pursuing.
Dear Fellow Vermonter, Vermont has some great traditions that go on year after year after year. Pond hockey is one of them. Every year, as the temperatures go down, ice skating rinks across the state go up. Whether it takes place on a pond, on a lake, your town green or even your neighbor’s backyard, “pond hockey” has been a
More than 135 Vermont students, ages 8 to 23 and from around the state joined me at Vermont State University Castleton for a choral concert and town meeting on the importance of arts education in our schools and communities.
At about 3 AM on Saturday morning, the Republican-led Senate passed a disastrous budget resolution. This resolution lays the foundation for a “reconciliation bill”, which will likely come before the Senate in the next month. In my view, this budget gets the priorities facing our nation exactly backward.
At a time of anxiety about a lot of things, I wanted to share some very good news with you. This Saturday, at the State House, I had a round table discussion with 13 high school students who were finalists in our annual State of the Union essay contest. We had nine independent judges read through the 475 essays that were submitted from 25 schools throughout the state, and they determined that these were the best.
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