Richard Watts
CommentatorRichard Watts teaches communications and public policy in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Vermont and directs the Center for Research on Vermont. He is also the co-founder of a
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In my college town students were not allowed to vote. Heck, they could take over the town, the mayor at the time famously said, and the county election鈥� -
I started smoking when I was 15. By the time I was 16 I was addicted. It took ten years to quit, something some of my teenage friends were never able to鈥� -
Picture this: a group of news reporters assigned to cover a large rally. Roped off from the event at the back of the room, they type away, writing their鈥� -
It鈥檚 been widely reported that three small Vermont towns issue about one-quarter of all speeding tickets in the state. And the resulting revenue is said鈥� -
The 2018 legislative session will be known as the year that Vermont took an important step towards reducing gun violence.Following the Parkland shootings,鈥�
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Cyclists and walkers are some of the most reliable signs of spring and early summer.As the grass turns green and buds on the trees come out, people鈥�
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May 1 marks a critical date in the college decision process - as the day by which students and their parents have to plunk down their deposits,鈥�
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A young Vermont woman recently was pulled over for driving too close to the yellow line. Another driver was stopped for following a car too closely; a鈥� -
Before it was invented in a Vermont legislative committee room in the spring of 2000, the concept of Civil unions didn鈥檛 exist anywhere in the world.Civil鈥�
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Legendary Vermont Political Scientist Frank Bryan is fond of saying 鈥淩eal democracy takes place in small places鈥� and drawing a direct line from ancient鈥�
