In Vermont, we have many young people, perhaps upwards of 20,000 or more, who are disengaged from a workforce that reportedly has over 26,000 open positions.
Keelan: Where are all the young men and women?
Keelan: There is just no place to live
Don Keelan explains why housing is scarce and new housing almost non-existent in Vermont.
Keelan: Legislature seems out of touch
What Vermonters DON’T need from the Legislature is added stress on our police shortage and energy costs.
Keelan: a second home in the mountains
It’s not for sale, and the $10 million annual upkeep of this summer home doesn’t include the security service. But that three-hole golf course is really something.
Keelan: so many crises, so little unity
Every issue crisis is framed as ‘number one.’ Our leaders focus on the loudest cause-seeker who has their immediate attention.
Keelan: The season of giving with fossil fuel fees
The collapse of the TCI is an early Christmas present. But our joy may be short-lived.
Keelan: The unifier has not been unifying
Ten months into the Biden Presidency, and the country is more divided than ever.
Keelan: My apple pie will now be taxed
The Commission contends that broadening the tax base could reduce the sales tax rate from its present amount of 6% to 3.6%. As a long-time student of taxes, I don’t believe the rate of 3.6% will be around long before it is raised to 4% and higher in the not-too-distant future.
A Little Boy’s Wish
It wasn’t until late into the third hour that a delightful, seven-year-old boy, dressed in corduroys and a blue sweater over a white shirt, came up and asked the aging Santa, “Is there any hope that my mother and father could be together at my house on Christmas morning?”
Today’s News: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020
Pandemic economy winners and losers / Guv wants State control of policing policies / Swanton mom charged in death of infant son / Don Keelan, new columnist / deer poaching / Barre JP says lax standards on absentee ballot envelopes
