By: Eric M. Weglarz, Guest Columnist OpEd As the age of technology rapidly blossoms before our eyes, the emergence of phones as a dominant part of the current lifestyle has become apparent. We use our phone as a Swiss Army knife for daily tasks such as communication, entertainment, as a GPS, and even to … Continue reading
Category Archives: Opinions
Lessons Not Yet Learned
By: Robert Patton, Columnist Until very recently, few Vermonters had ever heard of EB-5. Many still have no idea what it is. No Lyndon State course on economics, political science, or American history has ever given EB-5 a place in its syllabus. But in the last few weeks EB-5 has earned more than its share … Continue reading
KULTUЯKAMPF
By: Michael B. Miley Well, this is it. I mean, really it. When you come back next year, you won’t have Mike Miley around to write the (often painful) truth in this column anymore. You won’t immediately realise it, but as the months of the Fall 2016 semester slowly creep forward, you’ll start feeling this … Continue reading
None Dare Call This Democracy
By: Robert Patton We hear a lot these days about the importance of higher education and the steadily increasing costs attached to an undergraduate diploma. But, sometimes, we have educational opportunities of which we may not be fully aware and which come to us without a financial price tag. For anyone either in college or … Continue reading
Migrant Is The New N-Word
By: Robert Patton In Europe and in America we are hearing of a new kind of slur. Even as hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children flee the countries that their ancestors occupied for centuries, we find that a great many are being turned back accused of being economic migrants. Imagine the nerve of … Continue reading
KULTUЯKAMPF
By: Michael B. Miley At length, O Vermonters, we have dismissed from our state, or driven out, or, when they were departing of their own accord, we have pursued with words, Quiros and Stenger, mad with audacity, breathing wickedness, impiously planning mischief to our state, threatening fire and sword to you and and to our … Continue reading
Where Have All The Students Gone?
By: Robert Patton, Columnist A half century ago the United States was at war. By the end of 1965 more than 45,000 young American men had been called up to do battle in Vietnam. Today we have far more Americans in uniform than ever served in Southeast Asia. Some of those young men and women … Continue reading
Michael Miley OP-ED
Correction: last week’s editorial was from 2.5 years ago, not one year. This is another op-ed from 9/14 (2 years ago) re-hashing a similar point. By: Michael Miley “The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program provides conditional visas to foreign nationals who invest $500,000 or $1 million into a government-approved business, a class which includes Jay … Continue reading
Editors Note: Q Burke
Editor’s Note: former Editor-in-Chief Michael Miley wrote the following opinion for an edition of The Critic early last year. With the recent announcement that the hotel at Q Burke has postponed their opening again, we’ve dredged up an old article to help illustrate the struggles that this project has seen as far back as last … Continue reading
The End of Democracy
By: Robert Patton If a journalist covering a heated primary debate between a handful of women were to call it a catfight, he would rightly be called sexist. But no word better than catfight better describes the behavior of the Republican candidates for the Presidency this year. And the supposedly “informed electorate” seems to be … Continue reading
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