Where do you see cracks?

Posted by Sarah Lyons on June 23, 2010 at 4:53 pm

Cracks in the Public Structures

Vermont is a great place to live and work and an attractive place to do business because of the investments we’ve made over the years in our public structures like parks, courts, schools, and environmental protections.

With state budget cuts and state employee layoffs for the past several years, we are starting to see cracks in those public structures. In the Cracks in the…

Per capita, Vermonters have a lot of fun

Posted by Jack Hoffman on June 15, 2010 at 3:51 pm

According to the latest report from the Vermont Ski Areas Association, everybody in Vermont spent nearly a week on the slopes last winter. Or at least that’s how the information would have been cast if the subject had been taxes instead of skier visits.

The report released last week was the annual tally of the number of people who visited Vermont’s 19 ski areas. The total for the 2009-10 ski…

The Census stopped using its state tax rankings. Why don’t we?

Posted by Jack Hoffman on May 12, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Now that the governor is in the middle of another stand-off with the Legislature over the budget, his press office has pounced on the latest story that purports to show that Vermont’s taxes are too high. The article appears this week in Vermont Business Magazine. Unfortunately, the magazine arrived at its conclusion using two pieces of flawed data: a self-selecting opinion survey and Census figures no longer published because they…