This is a little bit old, but you should hear it straight from the bitch’s mouth. She’s right, of course, about  getting stuff done. The really good part is near the end. . .

This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2008.

Paula Routly is publisher, editor-in-chief and cofounder of Seven Days. Her first glimpse of Vermont from the Adirondacks led her to Middlebury College for a closer look. After graduation, in 1983 she moved to Burlington and worked for the Flynn, the...