04.22.2023 Columns Just saying: My 1st Amendment day in court This personal story has been dredged from my memory banks by the recent spectacular defamation battle between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems, which wound up in a $787.5...
01.28.2023 Columns Just Saying: Making a run for it I started running after I moved to Montpelier to start my career as a newspaperman. Adopting some Vermonty habits in my new role, I got myself a community garden...
12.04.2022 Columns Column: The brilliant oddball In most ways, he was the least likely newspaper impresario. In most ways, he was a most absent-minded professor. But for the group who worked for him, it was...
10.08.2022 Columns Column: Sleeping in I don’t think I was bouncing out of bed before I absolutely had to. That changed after I joined the Navy Officer Candidate School at Newport, R.I., in 1968...
10.01.2022 Around the Island Just Saying: Getting around to it My brother recently sent me a book, an actual hardback book, in the mail. What a miracle! It is a nonfiction work by the master fiction writer George Saunders,...