It is an honor to represent Brandon in the Statehouse for my sixth session.
Category: Opinion
Legislative Report: Getting ready to advocate for Pittsford and Proctor
The start of the 2024 Legislative Session was gaveled in on Wednesday, January 3, without the usual fanfare of the beginning of a biennium.
Legislative Report: Looking forward to getting to work for Vermont
This is my third term in the legislature, representing the wonderful town of Brandon.
Hard Tellin’: How to reinvigorate unpopular family holiday traditions
This Christmas will mark the 18th year that I have been forcing my kids to make homemade gifts for each other.
Editorial: A tax too far?
Last week, heads exploded all around the state when Vermonters heard about the projected 18.5% increase in property taxes next year.
Guest editorial: Women, life, freedom — as in, Free Palestine
I am an American woman of Middle-Eastern descent who grew up Quaker. Not as strange as it may sound at first blush, if you consider that Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
A dream about shifting our approach to climate change
I recently dreamt I was at an auditor training. I used to be an auditor myself and was remembering sloppy bookkeeping practices I dealt with. Only I realized that the topic of this dreamed audit training was climate change.
Editorial: Lesson from the past: Words have always mattered
My father’s parents were born in a Polish town called Łuków (roughly “woo-cough”), some 75 miles southeast of Warsaw.
Guest editorial: Hold onto your sobriety during the holiday season
Thanksgiving Eve is also known as Blackout Wednesday, the first heavy drinking weekend of the holiday season.
Letter to the editor: The Brandon Police Log keeps me informed
I have thought a lot about the issue of publishing the police log in the Reporter and, although intellectually I can understand the reasons against publishing it, in reality I realize how important it is to me.
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