Or maybe Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has been rebranding socialism to seem like common-sense approaches to economic problems. America could be tipping beyond liberal to, yes, socialism.  MORE

  The University of Vermont Law School, THE TIMES notes, is already busy with buyouts and possible layoffs.  When there is a game-changing  event like the Crash of Law Inc. in 2007, there is usually a lag between when it happens and all the ripple effects.  MORE

  A sign of the high emotional capital, most members make it their mission to bring home-made cookies, cheese they transported back from Vermont, or diet cola to events.  MORE

Right now, though, I''m frustrated that the Vermont Secretary of Education''s answers to my 28 Questions about the Common Core aren''t worth a plug nickel. I wanted to know the decision-making process that led Vermont to embrace the Common Core. MORE

  Last week the treat homerun was cheese from Vermont.  Mark Twain was a writer.     And a very good one.   Svietlanan - Dreamstime.com. But, we're now finding out, that he was much more.  MORE

Come on, would you opt for enjoying the mountains of Colorado while legally smoking a joint of pot or the mountains in Vermont without being able to legally smoke some weed? MORE

The folks at Ben & Jerry's in Vermont put their labeling where their values are.    During the fight in the legislature in VT for marriage equality, the company aggressively campaigned for same-sex marriage - as a good business idea.    Pass that bill and the state would be able to attract the best and brightest to work and consume, Ben & Jerry's argued. The bill did pass.    To celebrate that, reports  Michael A. MORE

Saturday, June 27, 2009 Find Your Green Room Trigger In this weeks New Yorker, Alex Ross writes about Marlboro Music, an elite summer music program at Marlboro college in Vermon t "where artists could forget about commerce and escape into a purely musical realm." MORE

Years ago, when the fax was standard, a former boss relocated to Vermont. "You telecommute." " That's what "they" kept hammering with. MORE

  He was found dead in his Vermont art gallery.  Recently life has not been kind to Mia Farrow.    She lost her daughter Lark and now her brother Patrick.    Police have tentatively ruled the cause of death suspicious.    Patrick was 66. An autopsy is being performed.    I wish Farrow strength during this second blow.    She might find it comforting to meditate on Elizabeth Edwards's book "Resilience." MORE