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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.

  • Right about this time last year, a colleague of mine committed suicide after wrestling with what by all accounts was severe and major depression. I hadâ€�
  • Political endorsements are often sought after; difficult to obtain; and even harder to quantify. In Vermont we recently witnessed an early Presidentialâ€�
  • Mark Leibovich of the New York Times recently explored the popularity of the term “folksâ€� as the nomenclature preferred by politicians when referring toâ€�
  • Recently, the Associated Press reported that a man showed up for jury duty in Caledonia County wearing an iconic black and white striped prison jumpsuitâ€�
  • Two well-known Vermont politicians looked to 2016 this past week. Senator Bernie Sanders formally announced he’s running for President. And Lt. Governorâ€�
  • Poet William Blake once wrote, “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himselfâ€�
  • Article 8 of the Vermont Constitution states “that all elections ought to be free and without corruption, and that all voters having a sufficient,â€�
  • Under English common law, the crime of mayhem involved maliciously injuring another person so that he would be unable “to defend himself or annoy hisâ€�
  • Spock, the late Leonard Nimoy’s character on Star Trek, once famously stated that “change is the essential process of all existenceâ€� â€� meaning that aâ€�
  • Modern sledding is artfully portrayed in the wildly popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Bill Watterson, the strip’s creator, deftly uses sledding as aâ€�