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following the yellow brick road

patterns, power, and what the road reveals

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What the Record Shows: Molly Gray

The Semblance of Engagement with Rural Vermont

The TRORC Regional Planning Record, Updated

Real farmers. Real landowners. Real towns. Not a chatbot amongst them. 180 comments, 120 signatures, and a formal Open Meeting Law violation later.

Spirals. Dreams. Release. Home.

the joy of a non-linear life

Waiting Is the Work

Notes from the waiting, inside an industry that rewards speed

Vermont’s Forest Was Already Spoken For

How a 100-year carbon commitment, a BP subsidiary, and Japanese oil money turned Vermont’s working landscape into a financial instrument — before the mill closed

The Board Was Set Years Ago-Atlas

How Atlas Holdings placed two directors inside its competitor — and what they learned before the mill went quiet

What the Record Shows: Hannah Sessions

Four roles. One ballot. The public record.

What the Record Shows: Ruth Hardy

One session. Twenty-six questions. The public record.

[Retracted] Vermont Teachers' Pension Is Invested in the Company That Just Eliminated Vermont's Pulpwood Market

Further reporting showed the core financial connection didn't hold up. Retracted July 29, 2026

Vermont’s Candidates Are Running for Governor. Rural Vermont Is Running Out of Patience.

Silence is deafening final · MD

The Headline Is Finch. The Story Is What Nobody Was Supposed to Notice.

What fifty years in Vermont's forests taught one forester — and what it means for all of us.

What the Record Shows: Steven Heffernan

One session. Twenty-six questions. The public record.

Vermont’s Lieutenant Governor Race:

Four Candidates, One Lens

What IF, you were a potato?

Fun Perspective Shifts for Leaders Who Dare to Imagine

Where Vermont’s RPCs Agree on Act 325 — and Where the Language Still Diverges

Following the PRC process as it unfolds

What the Record Shows: Andrea Treadway

1 of 5 goes on the record · Vermont Senate, Addison District (ADD-1)

Land. Body. Belonging.

On guilt, absolution, and the ledger we mistake for change

By Design: Vermont’s Democratic Pipeline

The Women, the Networks, Vermont 2026

Amazon Invests $2.5 Million and Counting in Vermont Carbon Credits

Atlas Timberlands. Cold Hollow. Amazon. The infrastructure is already here and growing

What the Record Shows: Aly Richards

The employer, the board service, the institutional network — sourced to primary documents