The WORLD 06-09-21

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Dated: May 31, 2021
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Government Overreach Gone Too Far
By House Minority Leader Pattie McCoy
Being first sometimes means coming in last. Vermont has
sure had a lot of “firsts” over the years--the first state to abolish
slavery; the first state to allow civil unions for same-sex
couples; the first state to allow the importation of lower-cost
prescription drugs from Canada; and so on. These are good
firsts. But not all “firsts” are created equally.
A bill before the Vermont Legislature, S.79, would make
Vermont the first state in the nation to have a statewide, government-run,
centralized registry of all privately owned
homes being rented out. This unnecessary expansion of government
into your lives would cost the state over a million
dollars each year--but don’t worry, because proponents want
to pay for that by levying a new fee on as many as 80,000
Vermont homeowners, in the midst of our economic recovery.
Brilliant, right?
From my time as a municipal clerk to my service in the
Vermont Legislature, I’ve seen the hand of state government
slowly creep further and further into the lives of everyday
Vermonters. I liken it to this: Imagine, for example, living
next to a volcano with lava flowing ever so slowly as to cause
no initial alarm--but before you know it, your house, your
driveway, and your whole property are surrounded by it.
That’s precisely what Vermont government has become--a
steady flow of lava encroaching upon every one of us. And we
A Bedtime Story
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Graduation Wishes to the Class of 2021
By Deb Paul
Who were you when you started school and who are you
now?
Class of 2021, this moment marks the end of “childhood”,
a defining moment in life that helps you shape your future.
The Class of 2020 had to overcome challenges unprecedented
in modern history, and they got a tremendous amount
of attention and an outpouring of love.
It’s time for the class of 2021 seniors to receive just as
much attention as their predecessors.
Many 2021 graduates had very little contact with their
classmates. While some attended in-person classes off and on,
others completed their coursework in person. All what makes
school fun was so different than what anyone was used to.
Young people who weathered the storm of the pandemic
are to be admired they were amazingly resilient, pushing
through to the conclusion of their education.
You are being asked to step into the future with even more
purpose, vision, passion, and hope for the future.
I wish I could tell you I know the path forward, I don’t, and
there is so much uncertainty out in the world. What I do know
is that using the same guts and imagination is what will sustain
you through what is coming. It’s the resourcefulness that
you have learned, along with how to deal with the fear of
By G. E. Shuman
So, a few months ago my wife and I
got a new bedroom. No, we didn’t
move, but all of our children seemed
to have. Our house, a century-plus old,
four-bedroom Dutch cape in Barre City,
suddenly had three empty bedrooms.
After many years of sharing a double bed, Lorna decided
that she wanted a king sized one. I guess I should have realized
then that the honeymoon was over. Anyway, I had convinced
her to simplify and purge a lot of things she once
considered ‘collectibles’, so getting a new bed seemed like a
small price to pay. We mutually decided to only move things
that we really cared about or needed into the new bedroom and
found that most of the accumulated collections in the old room
were things we had been given, but when and by whom was
anybody’s guess. (Sometimes having a less than perfect
memory may be a blessing.)
We succeeded in repairing walls, painting, and getting the
new bed in only a few weeks, the house probably groaned a
sigh of relief at shedding those hundreds of pounds of ‘stuff’.
The first few nights in our new bed, had strange thoughts. I
don’t sleep well anyway, and suddenly found myself out of
reach, literally out of ‘touch’ with Lorna. One night, while
lying on that bed, missing my wife who was only five or ten
or twenty feet away, I literally thought of an evolutionary tale
I once read about giraffes growing long necks so they could
reach the highest leaves on the trees, (That seems more like a
tall tale to me. Get it? A ‘tall’ tale?) I wondered if my arms
would get longer sleeping in this bed, so I could at least touch
my wife’s hand. I mean, we weren’t going to have more kids,
but this was ridiculous.
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should be deeply concerned by it.
Putting aside the intrusion into Vermonters’ lives, this bill
simply doesn’t make logical sense either. Consider this: the
legislation creates 6.5 new taxpayer-financed, state government
positions at a total expense of $850,000 for compensation.
I’m no mathematician, but by my calculation, that works
out to more than $130,000 annually in pay and benefits for
each of these 6.5 new bureaucratic positions. According to the
U.S. Census Bureau, the median household income in
Vermont was less than $62,000. This proposal should be
insulting to each and every Vermonter struggling to make
ends meet.
Put simply, this latest legislation is another attempt to
unnecessarily expand the scope of bureaucracy into the private
lives of Vermonters. There’s no compelling reason to
create a new registry, financed by a new fee on Vermonters, to
support new taxpayer-funded bureaucratic jobs.
Thankfully, the Vermont House Republican Caucus was
able to delay this legislation from being considered--for the
time being. But, rest assured, the Democrat Majority in the
State House is eagerly awaiting its turn to rush it through next
time the Legislature convenes.
I encourage all Vermonters to let their state legislators
know how they feel about this proposal.
Please Help Calais Road Crew
With no compromise, and with few meetings, the Calais
Selectboard successfully defeated the IBEW Union proposal.
I have been with the Calais Road crew for almost six years
and am currently taking home less pay than I was 35 months
ago. Another Road crew employee hired 2-1/2 years ago now
makes less than the last two hired. Of those two, one has
already left.
I received a letter from the Calais Selectboard yesterday
offering a 46 cent per hour raise. This still places me far under
what my counterparts in surrounding towns make and I consider
it unfair. I will be circulating a petition that will demand
that the Calais Selectboard to follow the Union’s pay rate
proposal with retro benefits back to 23 months ago - when the
union was first called.
I am good at my job and you can see my work all over
town. People stop to thank me all the time. It is simply too bad
that fairness is not part of the Selectboard’s discretion.
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Bruce Campbell
stepping into the unknown. This makes your class shine above
all others.
Your class has risen up to the challenge of the virus and you
now have an opportunity to create and define the new normal,
using your abilities and leadership to demonstrate pride and
joy for the person you have become.
The pandemic can take away the ceremonies and parties,
but it cannot take away the pride you have in yourself.
From the parent’s perspective, graduation is a reminder of
the passage of time. The trusting eyes of a newborn, the small
hand held on the first day of school is how we will always see
you, depending on us for help out in the world to fix and solve
problems. As parents we rarely see ourselves getting older
until something momentous happens like hearing the name of
your child announced at graduation.
It’s exciting, it’s serious business, the life we make for
ourselves is the only one we have so don’t waste it. For both
parents and students, graduation is a rite of passage; it marks
a transition. Not much is more exciting or scary than that.
Think of what has brought you to this wonderful occasion.
Be safe. Be bold. Mistakes are inevitable.
You will define a new normal. You will combine the tools
of today with the technology of tomorrow to create a happier,
healthier life for us all.
The bed is one of those platform ones that is about the size
of a tennis court, and just changing the sheets seems akin to
putting new sails on a three masted schooner or something.
That bed is totally comfortable. That much I will concede.
The mattress is fourteen inches thick and made of some foam
stuff that I am convinced is a combination of rubber, playdoh,
silly putty, and morphine. Believe me, you feel NOTHING
when lying on that mattress. You can even get up and leave
the room without jiggling or disturbing your partner. What fun
is that?
There is an adage that says “absence makes the heart grow
fonder”. There is another one that proclaims: “out of sight, out
of mind.” I was not exactly out of sight in that bed, but if you
had poor vision, I might have been.
I was beginning to think I was getting paranoid about this
whole thing. The bed is very nice, and Lorna seems happy
with the new, uncluttered room. I guessed our new nighttime
long distance relationship would be okay.
Do you remember, as a kid, making a telephone using two
tin cans and a piece of string? I’m thinking of surprising
Lorna with one of those some night. “Hello. Can you hear me
way over there?”
Every morning, looking in the bathroom mirror, I realize
that my wife looks younger than I do, and I’m thankful for
that. (If she didn’t, I might not care that she sleeps on the other
side of that new bedroom.) She’s still very pretty, very smart,
and even still fits in the earrings I bought her in high school.
At night Lorna keeps her phone way over yonder on her
nightstand, and mine is on my nightstand. I may just call her
some night soon to see if she’s busy.