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Vermont is a small, out-of-the-way place, and if recent discussions about its future are any indication, its residents often wonder if their way of life is compatible with the rest of the country’s. No other state proudly trumpets the fact that a sitting president refuses to visit; none has argued so passionately for secession — a movement that surely embodies collective concern about whether the United States of America can live up to its good name. ... Read more

Anthony Pollina might have more in common with Sen. Hillary Clinton than his supporters care to admit.

Both Pollina, the Progressive candidate for governor, and Clinton have defied calls from pundits to throw in the towel and let their opponents get an early shot at the Republicans in the race.... Read more

The live auction may not have been the highlight of R.U.1.2's Queer Community Dinner and fundraiser last Saturday — that honor was reserved for the evening's snarky keynote speaker, syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage — but the bidding did get a little hotter than expected.... Read more

Carly Kissane remembers the good old days, when Avon salespeople sold her mother cosmetic products in her Massachusetts home. Things have changed. Beauty gear is now, like everything else, sold widely on the Web. And Kissane, who grew up male, is now a 45-year-old transgender woman living in Burlington.... Read more

We writers can be such attention whores and will drop to our knees and pucker up whenever someone offers us professional kudos. But only a precious few will ever achieve the industry’s highest honor: coining a phrase infectious enough to enter the mainstream vernacular.... Read more

Few people would be surprised if Middlebury College professor Laurie Essig took the opportunity to say a few choice things about her employer.

After all, until recently, her teaching career was in ruins. A panel of peers had criticized her work in the classroom. Last month Middlebury reversed course, admitting to “procedural errors” in her evaluation, and Essig was put back on the tenure track, which has traditionally been a license to speak freely in academia.... Read more

Last Thursday, as Pope Benedict XVI addressed a few hundred Catholic educators in Washington, D.C., a Marine Corps recruiter in full dress uniform set up shop outside the St. Michael’s College cafeteria.

For a couple of hours the recruiter, an officer named Will Morgan, shook hands and took down the names of a few interested students, then packed up his pamphlets and headed for the door. “Not bad,” he said on his way out.... Read more

In Kathy Stickel’s experience, the problem with the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy isn’t the sex. It’s the paperwork.... Read more

The Canadian border is frequently in the news these days, thanks to new ID rules from Homeland Security and the enhanced buying power of the loonie. Most Vermonters probably fret more about inconvenient lines and lost revenue than about terrorists and illegal immigrants. But at the Mexican border, seemingly a world away, it’s a caballo of a different color. Hey, we’re not building a fence to keep out the Québecois, right?... Read more

Vermonters who attend performances of The Laramie Project at St. Michael’s College will likely be horrified anew by this dramatization of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man. But even in what Director Peter Harrigan calls “little lefty Vermont,” the play raises disconcerting questions about local homophobia and its potential consequences.

“You might go to the show thinking it’s an indictment of Wyoming, but you might come away with the realization that hate is present in every community — that it just escalated in Laramie,” Harrigan says.... Read more