I'm glad that VTDigger does not spend money on trying to run a debating society. It's not.
I vowed to buy no more cookbooks; I seldom use most of them. But when I met Molly at a mutal-friend's holiday party and asked her if she was working on another. She was and this is the result. Classic Molly, and I don't regret buying it.
"The original owners of http://Dealer.com grew their business and then sold out to out of state owners, which was their right."
No, they SOLD the business they grew.
Not surprisingly, the highest bidder was not a Vermont-based company. Theirs is a multi-national software platform. Onion River CoOp is great (I've been a member for a very long time). But it is in no meaningful way analogous. A closer comparison would be IDX (remember them?) Rich Tarrant was smart to sell to GE.
I'm not going to go off on some "Atlas Shrugged" rant here, but if you really want to kill the dreams of many young innovators in Vermont, then tell them that, yes, they can work like all get out, take enormous risks--but then cannot plan to ultimately sell the business they built.
And what about Martha Rainville?
Non-locals.
You mean brown people, right?
The essence of racial profiling.
Deb Blilado, how very convenient. How are you sleeping at night?
"I need to see the so-called wetland."
So says the man who gets his jollies riding around in a circle, belching out pointless greenhouse gasses. So called. Uh huh.
Re: “Juniper Bar & Restaurant”
Had a CAPITAL experience at Juniper during restaurant week. Gorgeous room. Awesome food. Great wine list. Winning vibe. Loved it.