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Ed Adrian

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Ed Adrian is an attorney at the law firm Monaghan Safar Ducham PLLC.  He previously served on the Burlington City Council for five years and currently sits on the Burlington Library Commission.

  • President-Elect Trump is advocating for us to bring back Merry Christmas as the de facto salutation-of-choice for the holiday season. And I’m actually OKâ€�
  • The Burlington City Council is poised to vote, by my calculation, on whether to increase councilor pay from $2.40 an hour to $3.60 an hour. And thisâ€�
  • Neil Young’s song The Needle and the Damage Done details the devastating impact that Young witnessed heroin having on musicians in the early â€�70s . Now,â€�
  • If there’s one refrain I’ve heard over and over again for the last month it’s “I can’t wait for this election to be over.â€� Well we’ve finally arrived atâ€�
  • The recent and prolonged spate of unseasonably warm days often called “Indian Summerâ€� has got me thinking about the future.Actually, I prefer to call themâ€�
  • In a philosophical moment, Star Trek’s Mr. Spock professed that “logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end.â€� And such is the case with the law andâ€�
  • The Latin phrase Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes literally means “who will guard the guards themselves.â€� One contemporary rift on this maxim asks “who willâ€�
  • In Vermont we have two very clearly defined dates for voting: Election Day, the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November, and Town Meetingâ€�
  • The “lady in redâ€� appears often in popular culture. In The Matrix, a “lady in redâ€� is created specifically as a distraction in a virtual world trainingâ€�
  • I’ve been going to Sterling Pond off the Smuggler’s Notch Road for a quarter century. It’s a great place to get away from the hustle and bustle of dailyâ€�