It’s too bad Gov. Phil Scott rejected naming an independent lawyer to determine whether state officials acted improperly in the EB-5 scandal. Leaving the job to Attorney General T.J. Donovan is impractical given Donovan’s unavoidable conflict of interest: The AG’s first priority, Scott and Donovan acknowledge, is defending state employees whose conduct is being questioned. […]
Fair Game
Fair Game was an opinion column on Vermont media and politics. It had different authors over the years, including Shay Totten, Paul Heintz, John Walters and Mark Johnson.

