William Boardman

Freelance writer, newspaper reporter, editor, and columnist (35 years). Audio producer for public radio doing political satire and news (40 years). Former non-lawyer judge and county executive (20 years). Also a TV writer.

For-Profit Colleges: Socrates Could Have Died Rich

Credit: texastribune.org Imagine a business model where the government lends people money to pay you for a service that you may or may not deliver effectively, and no matter

By William Boardman

August 14, 2012

Vermont Attorney General Race Doesn’t Have a Lot of Rules

Credit: topics.lingospot.com Both lawyers running for Vermont Attorney General in the Democratic primary August 28, incumbent Bill Sorrell and challenger TJ Donovan, have accepted campaign donations from people

By William Boardman

August 12, 2012

Vermont Protest Grows On Multiple Issues Across State

Credit: Occupy Vermont Vermont is a place where the protest vote can be in the majority and Vermont protest itself is currently in full bloom across the state. Vermonters have

By William Boardman

August 10, 2012

Vermont Governor Attacked For Supporting Marijuana Decriminalization

Credit: ctbob.blogspot.com In a fundraising email sent out on Wednesday, Aug. 8, the Republican candidate for Governor of Vermont claimed that Governor [Peter] Shumlin is making marijuana decriminalization

By William Boardman

August 9, 2012

VT Home "Uninhabitable" If Power Company Uses Eminent Domain

The homeowners and family. Credit: vpr.net Two artists who own a mountaintop home in Vermont say that a ruling allowing a power company to use eminent domain to erect

By William Boardman

August 8, 2012

Roger Pion, VT Farmer on Tractor Trashes Police Cars, His Life

Shortly after noon on Thursday, August 2, Vermont farmer Roger Pion, 34, rode his parents’ 20,000 pound tractor into Newport, Vermont, on his way to the Orleans County Sheriff’

By William Boardman

August 6, 2012

Vermont Sued Again For Taser Abuse, This Time Fatal

The State of Vermont is once again defending its police in court against charges of taser abuse, but this time the taser use was fatal for a disoriented, unarmed artist

By William Boardman

August 5, 2012

Vermont Officials Play Marx Brothers in Wake of Police Violence

Credit: 7dblogs.com Like the line attributed to Groucho Marx, several Vermont officials are denying reports of police violence at a protest by telling the public in effect: “Who are

By William Boardman

August 4, 2012

Police Violence Precedes Governor’s Conference in Vermont

Credit: dylankelley.blogspot.com New England governors and friends were on their way to a dinner party prior to a conference in Burlington, VT and found the way blocked by

By William Boardman

July 31, 2012

Lawyers Crush Off-Broadway Play, Broadway Claims Fair Use

Scene from the play. Credit: 3ctheplay.com Playwright David Adjmi’s Fair Use battle started on June 6, 2012 when the world premiere of his new play “3C” opened off-

By William Boardman

July 28, 2012

No Tar Sands Pipeline in VT Say Protesters, Despite FBI Visits

Credit: world350.org If you’re an oil company trying to get dirty tar sands oil from central Canada to a tanker port on the Maine Coast, why not just

By William Boardman

July 28, 2012

Law of the Sea Boarded by Parliamentary Pirates

Credit: US Navy QUESTION: What do you call a 30-year-old agreement that has the support of President Obama, former President Bush, former President Clinton, the other former President

By William Boardman

July 26, 2012